wilt - as giants watch over us (ad noiseam)

with particular attention i expect and listen to the releases for ad noiseam as releases for a label that treats experimental music in its most inventive side. some of the releases are maybe one of the most inventive that have appeared on the experimental/noise scene lately (cordell klier’s and lapsed’s) a scene which is evidently repeating itself more and more and eventually gets stuck in its own repetitiveness. now we have the new wilt release ‘as giants watch over us’. two years after releasing his album ‘radio 1940’ in which james keeler aka wilt transcripted the concept of the 40’s in music, he gets back in with a sound design experiment, we can take the album as a sound collage which contains pieces of lo-fi ambients, taking over pieces of the tracks, classical bits, noise, cut ups, drones, contemporary influences...all of that classical on one side, on the other, experimental, lined up and arranged. for all of this not to remain at a level of a sound collage and sound design experiment, wilt insists on finding and displaying the soundability which talks about the secret guidelines of the album. using all sorts of different devises and instruments, as well as other sources of sound to create ‘as giants watch over us’, james with his production achieves a simple combination of the classical ambient and sound scape sensibility with influences from the contemporary electronica. laying another layer of sound, radio frequencies, found sounds, field recordings... in a simple sound-layering process, capturing the dark lo-fi atmosphere, supported with black and white mental images and sound of an old am radio playing somewhere in the first few decades of the previous century.