GAMBLE, LEE
IN A PARAVENTRAL SCALE EP (HYPERDUB)
Flush Real Pharynx is the title of sound designer/junglist/composer and DJ Lee Gamble's new three-part album for Hyperdub, which will be revealed in a series of EPs.
The triptych sonic documentary loosely explores three stages of the `Semioblitz' - the aggressive onslaught of visual and sonic stimuli of contemporary cities and virtual spaces.
The first part of the series - `In a Paraventral Scale' - zooms in on the seductive/destructive nature of present-day reality through a symbolic prism inhabited by snakes, vehicles and mirages.
From the sound morphologies of `BMW Shuanghuan X5' where recordings of high performance cars melt and spectrally morph into synthesized orchestral timbres, through the arpeggiated neon hyper patterns of the beautiful `Folding' and the electro slam of `Moscow', this chapter veers into a crystalline, neon sound mirror of `In The Wreck Room', where 21st century jungle meets footwork and electro, takes a ride on board a hypothetical super highway in the rain at night, leaving us in the haunted tension of Lee's most emotive tracks to date - `Many Gods, Many Angels' - to await the second part of the triptych...
`In A Paraventral Scale' is a clash of Gamble's brand of hyper-concrète, where unmanned vehicles hover around us, steel ball bearings roll and scatter, jet engines end up as smashed objects, voices instruct, orchestral instruments morph into the sounds of doppler-shifting vehicles - all this distilled into signature jungle mirages, with brash, restless DJ Stingray-style 160bpm electro and haunting ambience.
Gamble exposes us to a new type of digital theater, a unique and futuristic filmic world blurring the distinction between non-musical sound, music and dance floor, a push and pull between reality and fictional worlds.
All sonics co-exist in an unreal place whose spatial and temporal location is left for us to assemble.