Dorothy Carlos: “Balm”

Arthouse electro drone with its finger on the repeater button. Our highlighted track “Balm” is a cassette-only release from experimental musician Dorothy Carlos. She’s a cellist by training, and the stringed instrument is used as the basis for creating the tight and tense sound world in the song. But you’ll also hear vocal mutterings and the steady white noise hum of the equipmental apparatus heating up on the fly. A surprising sense of whimsy pervades what should by all rights be an antagonizing and sclerotic 2:48. As if a mental patient with a severe nervous tic was enjoying a deep sleep, a dreamy, if temporary, vacation from the clutch of disease. Off Ear World. Via 29 Speedway.

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