Mem: Very Good Year

This CD holds the same appeal for me as the work of Eliane Radigue; slow builds and subtle shifts that are so entirely rewarding that and after you spend your time with it (57 minutes, in this case) you feel like it could go on for another hour or two and you wouldn't enjoy it any less. This composition is derived solely from a version of Frank Sinatra singing the standard, "It was a Very Good Year." If you're expecting, like I admit I was, Boyd Rice-styled record skips that change inperceptibly over the course of the piece you'll be both wrong and pleasantly surprised. This disc has more in common with Nurse With Wound's Salt Marie Celeste or Gavin Bryar's Jesus' Blood. Modified beyond recognition, "Very Good Year" opens slowly with excruciatingly deliberate subtle shifts and well paced builds and weavings of sound that creep into (and disappear from) the mix; seconds are stretched into hours, resulting in low hums and curls of melody twisted into a mobius strip that is stretched like a rubber band.