Feedback Moves launches with ‘Call Time / Hard Out’ by @xcrswx.
@xcrswx are London based artists Crystabel Riley (drum-/human-skin) and Seymour Wright (saxophone), who alongside performing as a duo have appeared in projects such as أحمد [Ahmed], GUO, Maria & The Mirrors and RP Boo & XT.
Call Time / Hard Out presents us with a contrast of opposing recording techniques - the LIVE and the ANDROID. Call Time is largely made up of phone recordings, mashed up to create a layered mix of mini aural breaks, which scatter barbed sax and motoric drum patterns through a cloud of bass tone and feedback. Hard Out is an edited in-house live recording from Cafe Oto which sees the duo communicating through a live language of repetition and interplay. Sparse, rotating snare and sax blows are met with pulsing subs as the mix gradually folds back on itself.
Call Time / Hard Out will be released as a 7” and download on 15th June 2020
7” comes with folded @xcrswx artwork, A4 insert by @xcrswx with words by Janina Pedan and label business card
150 copies
Call Time recorded by @xcrswx
Hard Out recorded by Shaun Crook, with reflections from Amy Gwatkin and Billy Steiger
Mastered by John Hannon
Stream:
www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/stream-new-music-by-crystabel-riley-seymour-wright
released June 15, 2020