{"id":3508,"date":"2011-04-10T19:06:51","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T19:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.com\/?p=3508"},"modified":"2011-04-10T19:06:51","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T19:06:51","slug":"review-%e2%80%93-29-palms-der-2010-%e2%80%93-by-allen-lockett-%e2%80%93-igloo-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/?p=3508","title":{"rendered":"review \u2013 29 Palms (der) 2010 \u2013 by Allen Lockett \u2013 Igloo Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.i8u.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/i8u-29_Palms-de5030.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3431\" title=\"5x7 - Front - Landscape\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.i8u.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/i8u-29_Palms-de5030.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.francejobin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/i8u-29_Palms-de5030.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.francejobin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/i8u-29_Palms-de5030.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.francejobin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/i8u-29_Palms-de5030.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>29 Palms, i8u on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragonseyerecordings.com\/\">Dragon\u2019s Eye Recordings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Montreal-based France Jobin has been active since 1999, with albums on  labels like Bake\/Staalplaat, Room40, nvo, Atak, and Vague Terrain.  Specializing in \u201csound-sculpture\u201d in her <a title=\"www.i8u.com\" href=\"..\/\" target=\"_blank\">i8u<\/a> guise, she\u2019s aided and abetted here by California\u2019s Joshua Tree  national park, whence she drew both inspiration and field recordings,  edited and processed into the spatial environments of <strong>29 Palms<\/strong>.  Its single long format tract eschews a linear narrative in favour of  ineffable dwellings and unwonted divergences; for all that it dwells on  spaces it creates, its audio-visualizations constantly shift, between  deeply textured dronal swells and billows and attenuated higher end  microsonics \u2013 binaries that Jobin stitches together into audio tableaux  that are at once evacuated and replete, expansive and intimate. Poking  discreetly into the interstices of lower spectrum digital and analogue  tone, softly prodding pulses and held back bass gesture, the trajectory  of <strong>29 Palms<\/strong> describes a event horizon onto which  microvariations hove into view; ambiguous atmospheres unfolding out of a  seemingly infinitely creatively configurable trio of materials \u2013  synthetic sustain, wavering tonalities and digital crackle \u2013 that  commingle with occasional emergent harmonics. It rises and falls,  building into whirling dirges (clip below), softening to mid-range  pulse, descending into spectral sound and liminal near silence. Appeal \u2013  no soundalike reference intended \u2013 will be to those who cherish the  likes of Richard Chartier through to William Basinski, to the ear that  cleaves to a certain desertification, and the expressivity of absence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/igloomag.com\/reviews\/6appeal-dragons-eye-review-batch\">Igloo Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>29 Palms, i8u on Dragon\u2019s Eye Recordings Montreal-based France Jobin has been active since 1999, with albums on labels like Bake\/Staalplaat, Room40, nvo, Atak, and Vague Terrain. Specializing in \u201csound-sculpture\u201d in her i8u guise, she\u2019s aided and abetted here by California\u2019s Joshua Tree national park, whence she drew both inspiration and field recordings, edited and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/?p=3508\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;review \u2013 29 Palms (der) 2010 \u2013 by Allen Lockett \u2013 Igloo Magazine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[227],"tags":[543,177,604],"class_list":["post-3508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-29-palms","tag-dragons-eye-recordings","tag-igloo-magazine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3509,"href":"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions\/3509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.francejobin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}