Vor-stellen
Armature For A Painting
Vor-stellen is the experimental project of Brendan Moran, which blends fixated guitars and drums with ad-hoc electronic layers producing perforated waves of sustain which echoes off the fourth wall. Brendan has released work previously as part of avoid!avoid (their album 'Particle And Wave' was released by Flying Nun in 2016) and The Subliminals, of which Flying Nun re-released -in 2021- a vinyl edition of their highly acclaimed album 'United State.' With Vor-stellen he picks up where those other projects have left off as a foray into 'kraut' inspired compositions "which seek to transform pre-determined ideas of music into open-ended sound objects, untethered from any sense of conventional outcomes." On this, second VS record, he teams up with his Subliminal buddies once again to continue on an exploration, "folding the weird and the eerie into a dark ecology of long-sound via indefatigable environments of modulation and improvisation, creating sonic counterpoints that hinge on a reanimation of musical gestures." The record features two side long slow builders and are released in a beautiful Brendan Moran designed sleeve.