Crisis Ordinary by Ross Birdwise

Released by Never Anything Records.

Originally available on cassette (now sold out) and as a digital download here:

https://neveranythingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/crisis-ordinary


reviews:

from Cassette Gods:

Not just arhythmic, but downright unapologetically dysrhythmic, Ross Birdwise specializes in exorcizing the ghosts of familiarity and context from The Beat just before our human brains can latch onto any lasting relationship with it. The only patterns to seek solace in are the ratios* of crisp notes to muted ones, echoed beats to rests, semi-tonal movements to indistinguishable pulsations of indeterminate length and frequency, electronic patch to possibly organic shredding.

In short, “Crisis Ordinary” is a real cluster-fuck of a beat-collage, with a wealth of haunting noise and drone accents to make listening alone at night a sufficiently nape-tingling task.

File under: "Haunted House Music from the Future"

— Jacob An Kittenplan

*and, really, only the concept of any rational association here


http://cassettegods.blogspot.com/2019/10/ross-birdwise-crisis-ordinary-c38-never.html


from Tabs Out:

Ross Birdwise likes electricity. He’s practically addicted to it, its features, its sounds, its taste even (probably). On “Crisis Ordinary,” he worships it, as every moment of the tape has a palpable electronic patois to it – you can almost smell the ozone from soldered circuits wafting in the air. Imagine, then, Birdwise getting really close to his gear, right on top of it, right up in it, and utilizing the tiniest fragments of it to compose the most micro electronic tunes, those that fidget on the edges of vision and vibrate with current. Imagine Birdwise is using a microscope. Imagine he’s having a dialogue with whatever it is he’s tinkering with. “Crisis Ordinary” finds the fractures in the building blocks, the corrupted source files in need of digital repair. Ross Birdwise is the technician we need for the problem we don’t know we have. So what if he’s more interested in exploring than fixing? We can just call somebody else then, I guess.

http://www.tabsout.com/?p=22446

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