Density.
Mirrored walls.
A token glance reflected twenty.
Images of loss.
A perpetual gain.
Sunken in.
“Birthday of Bless You” was released a little over a decade ago. What little we can find of Eva Saelens’ experimental project Inca Ore is gossamer and sometimes demonic––sound collages of weathered acoustic and electronic instruments and voice. As if recorded in the bowels of a cavern, her voice bounces, shrinks and splinters––stray shadows in an empty parking lot. While she is perhaps best known for her split release with Grouper, Inca Ore’s work is sometimes more reminiscent of the lo-fi recordings of early black metal. In some places a piano wades into the mix. In others, squalls of field recordings and primitive effects swallow themselves, leaving us with little more than an impression of a composition––noise as our sole constant.
This fractured perspective and a willingness to explore aural hypnosis is exemplified most succinctly with “Silver Wings.” Beginning with an unidentifiable squeal, the song moves in circles like a dismembered lullaby. Eva’s voice centers the experience, building upon itself with an unresolved melody. It is short-lived, concluding somewhat abruptly with a pensive and mildly jarring coda in the form of what could be plucked cello synth preset. Existing only as an apparition, the figure recedes back into mist of tape.
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Psetta is an interdisciplinary artist & musician. Hailing from Portland, Maine, he curates community radio programming, flirting with mundane, innovative & surreal sounds.
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