The idea
of having “Tones To Disappear To” makes me think of being alone in a crowd or
just in general how to exist without the spotlight on you. There
is a particular episode of the television series “Dark Angel” I enjoy, which I
don’t recall too many specifics of, where certain characters blend into the
background. I remember it well because
the actor who played Donkey Lips on “Salute Your Shorts” was one of these types
and I’ve always felt like I was that way as well—that I was able to go through
life unnoticed until I wanted someone to see me.
The
musical aspect on this cassette created by Justin Wiggan and Francesco De Gallo
suggests something slightly different to me though. Amidst haunting growling type of noises is
a constant banging/tapping/hammering which brings to mind the idea of this
being set in the woods somewhere and people going out there to never
return. It might very well be that I just watch too
many horror movies, but it does bring to mind the idea of someone going into
the woods to never return and everyone else in town wondering if it’s a
werewolf getting them or what. But,
somehow still, people are disappearing.
On the
other hand, parts of this music bring out an ambient and sort of spatial
quality to things. This reminds me of
any number of sci-fi movies where is someone is left out in space to die, just
floating along in the vast universe with nothing left to cling to or any means
of holding on. It’s odd because it truly does remind you how
great this universe is when compared with a single country on this planet, let
alone a tiny speck known as a human being.
I don’t really have a good
comparison for it with ants or anything, but only can imagine as being similar
to a single grain of salt being cast out to sea. That
is how a person would seemingly float throughout all of space endlessly until
they merely disappeared completely.
Though I
feel as if there was once an album called “How To Disappear”, I can only find
through a google search and jog of my memory the song called “How To Disappear
Completely” by Radiohead. Still, I
would rather listen to this than even Radiohead, as if there was an album
called “How To Disappear” I’d pit it as being released by Coldplay or
somebody.
What happens
here is that Justin Wiggan and Francesco De Gallo have me analyzing every
possible aspect of disappearance on just every level of the word. To think something as specific as this so completely
and thoroughly through is just a perfect reflection on how thought provoking
this cassette truly is.
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