Genre: Experimental / Noise

Track Listing:

01-23 NOTE: All Untitled Silver tracks numbered

Edward Sol, who for this release and it’s mirror, “Untitled Gold” drops his full name in favour for the more ambivalent S. in “Untitled Silver” released on his label Quasi Pop. Utilising tape loops, electronic twitches, noise machines and field recordings, Mr S. evinces his fascination for the number 23 to the nth degree. 23 tracks, each one minute and one second each totalling 23:23, with some ascription to the oft and erroneously attributed methods of number by Pythagorus.

Such finely demarcated audio tracks might initially present a confined space in which to wax experimentation but Edward S. carefully circumnavigates any limitations such dimensions proffer, a few songs into the short release and the audio-room is more like a sequence of boxed chambers linked imperceptibly by pinholes in each wall.

Taped fragments are spun and cycled, frothing reverberation into garbled sequences of recognisable form before spasms reduce familiarity. The dark chambers crept through breath verminous streams of aural souvenirs, at times frowzy particles or strident strikes, perpetually attesting to the irregular rhythms like some stop motion nightmare. Objects rustle in corners, glinting with agglutinated dust and angular debris, providing a sound-holes more Euclidian than Pythagorean. While “Untitled Silver” is a dusty dark spread of shaved sound, contorted electronics, there is, in brief moments, melodic drones and tones that seem to thread their way via the aforementioned kaleidoscopic viewing holes like twines of argent wire.

As quite the conceptual presentation, “Untitled Silver” flows with nary noticeable marks tween the songs that could be noted as perceptible, with Mr S. suasions sinuously threading all 23 tracks favourably.

For a limited edition of 23 discs on CDr, the album has at least been succinctly stylised with a spray-painted silver slimcase cover with transparent title/liner notes information stuck to the cover. The CDr itself is a professionally duplicated disc with laser printing on its silvered face.