Review by Frans de Waard on Vital Weekly
Also, a new name for me is Nicolas Maloney, from Jackson, Mississippi and who works in
the "areas of drone, ambient, musique concrète, and electroacoustic music [...] He is interested in
the interaction among texture, sound, and space". He has had some releases out on Warm Milk
Recordings (his label), Green Field Recordings, Somewherecold Records and Humanhood
Recordings. He also works as Blanket Swimming and Sleep Silver Lightning, and as a "guitarist/
vocalist for experimental/post-rock band, The Empty Handed Painters as well as the guitarist/
vocalist for experimental/lo-fi/garage-rock/noise rock trio, The Villetown Mountain Army Brigade".
The work he releases under his name deals with field recordings, found sounds and the
manipulation of both. Following the blast just delivered by Chlorine, this is a wealth of calm
sounds. Much of it deals with a very quiet approach and things can be near-silent for a longer
time. Here one has no idea what the field recordings originally sounded like, such as the level of
processing here as well. But unlike Chlorine things aren't blown out of proportions, but it also
sounds very subdued. Like it has been covered with a blanket, muffled away and occasionally
this blanket is so thick there is hardly any sound. In 'Persune' Maloney uses the form of start/stop
collage to produce this before going into a droney field. "Balline' and 'Solast' are straightforward
pieces of drone music, slowly fading in and out, sounding like a massive storm approaching and
leaving. In 'Quiete' the wind blows also but in quicker curves. I very much enjoyed the subdued
character of all of this and Maloney's daring move to include quite a bit of silence.
the "areas of drone, ambient, musique concrète, and electroacoustic music [...] He is interested in
the interaction among texture, sound, and space". He has had some releases out on Warm Milk
Recordings (his label), Green Field Recordings, Somewherecold Records and Humanhood
Recordings. He also works as Blanket Swimming and Sleep Silver Lightning, and as a "guitarist/
vocalist for experimental/post-rock band, The Empty Handed Painters as well as the guitarist/
vocalist for experimental/lo-fi/garage-rock/noise rock trio, The Villetown Mountain Army Brigade".
The work he releases under his name deals with field recordings, found sounds and the
manipulation of both. Following the blast just delivered by Chlorine, this is a wealth of calm
sounds. Much of it deals with a very quiet approach and things can be near-silent for a longer
time. Here one has no idea what the field recordings originally sounded like, such as the level of
processing here as well. But unlike Chlorine things aren't blown out of proportions, but it also
sounds very subdued. Like it has been covered with a blanket, muffled away and occasionally
this blanket is so thick there is hardly any sound. In 'Persune' Maloney uses the form of start/stop
collage to produce this before going into a droney field. "Balline' and 'Solast' are straightforward
pieces of drone music, slowly fading in and out, sounding like a massive storm approaching and
leaving. In 'Quiete' the wind blows also but in quicker curves. I very much enjoyed the subdued
character of all of this and Maloney's daring move to include quite a bit of silence.