Stephen Sharp and Roc Jiménez de Cisneros are the duo that are Evol, and the pieces on Proper Headstrinker (Editions Mego) are said to have originated from an exhibition called “Recurrence, repetition, hypnosis and ritual”, where the premise was focused on “continuity, neighborhood, and iteration, but also on sameness, insideness and outsideness”. What does that mean in layman’s terms? For one, each piece (titled in a simple manner as “Proper Headstrinker 1”, “Proper Headstrinker 2”, “Proper Headstrinker 3”, and so on) consists of nothing but phase modulations that last anywhere between two to four seconds, and each section then repeats itself like a loop for a duration of three minutes each. You are meant to listen to each track in completion before moving on to the next track, and the process repeats itself. Each sequence may sound different, but the end result is always the same.
It can be fascinating if you are to use the potentially infinite sequence of sounds in a musical manner, anything can be looped and matched up musically, but this isn’t music. One may find it easy to listen to these sequences for 15 or even 30 seconds, but it’s truly about endurance and tolerance for the project as a whole, and whether or not you want to sit there hearing sounds that can lead to irritation. One way to describe this would be like playing an old school video game involvign army tanks, and you feel like running over a rock over and over and over and over and over and over. That’s Proper Headstrinker, and if you’re able to take on the 30 minute duration of this album, I congratulate you.
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