Tzadik
2005
Myrninerest
About This Album
Ikue Mori has been on a roll since 1996's Garden was issued by Tzadik. She has worked in many settings, from trios -- with Robert Quine and Marc Ribot -- to sextets, as she did on One Hundred Aspects of the Moon, to completely solo works, such as Garden. This effort, Myrninerest, is another solo work, played entirely on a computer. The inspiration for Myrninerest is the exceptional work of the late spiritualist and artist Madge Gill (1918-1961); Mori has always been drawn to visual artists and is one herself (she came up with the base design for all Tzadik projects, and did full design on them for years). Gill created thousands of drawings and paintings, claiming she was channeled by the spirit-world guide Myrninerest. Given the strange and otherworldly beauty of her work, what's not to believe? In any case, Mori uses her personal computer to "channel" from one sound world to another -- the world of electronic sonics, the aural atmospherics of the organic world, the arrangement of vibration created by various musical instruments -- from percussion (acoustic and electric), to stringed instruments like cellos, violins, banjos, and harp. There are many other noises and blips, beeps, and bonks that wander in and out here, pulses created by who knows what.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 and 9)

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