Velocity of Sleep

Nuclear waste takes 100,000 years to cease to be a danger to human life: recorded in R1 Reaktorhallen, Sweden’s first nuclear reactor (as well as the electroacoustic studio EMS, and at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm) Kali Malone’s slow, oneiric debut ‘Velocity Of Sleep’ sonifies some of the eeriness of human action’s long timeframes. Disregarding tired notions of western classical composition, the works here – incorporating justly tuned Theorbo, frippertronic tape delays, tuned sine waves, Double Bass, Gongs and Viola de Gamba – seek to explore tone, timbre and tuning from the ground up, approaching an experience listeners to Indian classical drone music will be more familiar with. A mesmeric, transcendent listen limited to 1000 copies, this reissue offers listeners an insight into the compositional work that would become Cast of Mind and The Sacrificial Code