ALEX MACFARLANE - "THE THOUSAND NOTE CHORD" CS

LULU'S:

Progressive to the point of surreal. One of my earliest thoughts about this tape is that it feels like the day-to-day musings of a Medieval scribe-knight having returned from strange and distant lands to tend secretly and sacrilegiously to a private garden of rare plants. It’s beautiful and thoughtful and a little bit dangerous in its own humble way. The Thousand Note Chord is sweeping and ambitious; there’s something large in scope about it with the layers upon layers of sound that branch out in many directions, but beneath those chord canopies down at it’s root lies something simple. Not dissimilar to the way that a fractal is a tiny and modest thing expanded out exponentially into something vast and sophisticated. In fact, that is almost certainly what’s going on here in Macfarlane’s Medieval garden; a seed soothed and nurtured into sprawling life by the thousand note chord.