Vital Weekly:
CHRISTOPHER MCFALL - THE CITY OF ALMOST (CD by Sourdine) Field recording specialist and musician Christopher Mcfall is a fast riser in this world. And quite rightly so. The title of his latest CD,on Asher's Sourdine label, refers to the once prosperous area of Kansas City, where Mcfall has his studio and which is now a lesser neighborhood. I have no idea what it looks like, but if anything this music shows its that its an area in decay. Mcfall uses field recordings from around the corner as it were and covers them with more dust, peels of the skin of those recordings and waits for them to erode some more. The plug ins used to achieve this are extensive -although perhaps they are just lots and lots of equalization used onthe various sounds. Its hard to tell what the origins of these sounds are: metal on metal perhaps, wood objects, plastic found on the streets. I really couldn't say. But as I was listening to this for another time, I thought its also something that is hardly interesting to know. Would it make any difference if we would know what these sound sources are. Would we appreciate the music any more if we and thus would be any less if we didn't know? Hardly I think. This is oneof those cases where you can sit back and simply relax, let it rollout in front of you. Mcfall owes certainly to people like Francisco Lopez or Roel Meelkop, but he offers different things as well. The extensive use of plug in/EQ-ing the sound for instance, or the occasional use of rhythm in some of these pieces and a somewhat more free approach to his compositions. It doesn't make this something really really new, but Mcfall proofs that he can easily meet the best in his field, with his very own approach to the use of fieldrecordings. Do whatever you do best and develop from there, seems to be his motto. Don't leap into over production is my advise, and things will be good. (FdW)
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Thanks so much for checking out The River Project. And thank you for being you. If you like what you hear from us please feel free to turn some of your friends on to TRP and drop by any time to say hi. We will be recording a full length album this summer with Backline Records here in Portland. We are also looking for a weekly gig in town to begin rehearsing new material, so if you are interested...drop by and give us your opinions on all this info. Exciting times for us and we hope they are for you too...TRP
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