coeurl/Vertonen: split tour 7"

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Produced for a tour of the west coast (summer 2001) in a limited edition of 133 copies. Silkscreened covers on recycled heavy stock paper.

This split 7 inch record was produced to coincide with a tour of the west coast by these two artists. coeurl, aka Jason Soliday, is also a member of the experimental duo gunshop. He takes the first side with a minimal arrangement of tones, high frequency whistles and sharp sounds interrupting the flow. This impressive piece, if a little short, falls comfortably into the mold of today's microsound conventions, a quiet meditation composed of dynamic, minimal tones. On the second side, Vertonen is the sound project of C.I.P. founder Blake Edwards. His piece is vastly different from coeurl's, beginning with a dark atmospheric loop of what sounds like muffled metal clanging. The piece takes an unexpected turn with the introduction of several high pitched whistles and shrills, which are piercing to the ears and quite unsettling as they escalate in intensity, still preserving the underlying drone as the foundation for the piece. Vertonen's track certainly rouses a reaction, though, which may very well have been the point here. One side lulls you into complacency while the other gets you up from your seat.-Incursion

coeurl is the project of Jason Soliday, who is also in Gunshop (they had a CD on C.I.P. before) and the laptop trio Mora (who have a CDR out on Bake Records). Vertonen's side opens with a repetitive drone sound on the guitar, before going into a segment of feedback like sounds (the screaming of fried insects gets close) with a likewise dark character. Austere sort of electro-acoustic treatments. coeurl takes the matter a little bit further and works solely around a low end drone versus a high end peep. Changing slowly, at first unnoticed, but leaving with buzz. Nice stuff on record, so I wonder how the tour went. -Vital Weekly