“Never So Alone” reviewed by Loop

Never So Alone
During a long stay in Lisbon, Portugal, Bristol sound artist Simon Whetham and now based in Colombia records the city ambiance and its outskirts. He captures the geography and architecture of the city of Lisbon, its people, weather and his emotional state. For this Whetham used different types of microphones like Sennheiser shotgun microphone and two lavalier microphones, contact microphones and contact microphones and hydrophones to expose sound vibrations that travel through objects, an electromagentic coil pickup and a radio receiver, an electromagnetic wire from a turntable and a radio receiver.

After leaving these recordings without listening and intervene in a while and being in a strong emotional state, Simon works these sounds with great intention and strength to release the emotions.

The sound its a bit dark, remote, along with metal objects, the sounds are both abrasive and harmonics. A soundscape that evokes both urban sounds and of the countryside.

Listening to this album I have mixed emotions, on the one hand I think I have trouble with those dense and impenetrable drones and on the other side joy and hope; because of the harmonic lines and birdsongs. Guillermo Escudero

via Loop