'SILHOUETTES' REVIEW Vital Weekly - 2007 M. ROSNER/GARETH HARWICK - SILHOUETTES MORNING STALKER/THE GHOST OF 29 MEGACYCLES Hot on the heels on the recent releases on Hello Squarerecordings, here is something new by them. Silhouettes is a series of four discs with each two artists, face to face, with about twelve minutes of music. None of the first four names did ring a bell, but there are certainly stylistically similarities to be spotted around here. On the first release is M. Rösner, who released his work on 12x50, Room 40 and Apestaartje, and who is set to explore here the nature of cello like guitar playing, whereas in his second piece he plays around with feedback and sine waves. His final piece has sampled percussion which is quite loaded with tension. Hardwick comes from England and he plays sampled piano. Sampled not in an entirely digital way, but through those nice food pedals that guitarists use. In his first piece the piano is recognizable, but in the second it could be anything that swells to and from to make a nice drone piece. On the second volume we first find Morning Stalker, which is Morgan McKellar, guitarist and vocalist of Underlapper, whom I don't know, but his piece here is a nice layered piece of sampled guitar sounds, bouncing around with a lot of delay pedals. As such there isn't much difference with Greg Thaw, also known as The Ghost Of 29 Megacycles. He's from Polaroid Ghost and Jasmine Loop Control. His piece is very similar: tinkling guitars, loops, a bit of feedback and nicely melodic, pleasant ambient music. On the first the differences work quite well, whereas the similarities on the second one make a pretty coherent release. (FdW)
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