Kevin Sanders #1

 

Petals – Aposiopesis – 2012 – 3”CDr/Download – LF Records.

https://hairdryerexcommunication.bandcamp.com/merch

https://hairdryerexcommunication.bandcamp.com/album/aposiopesis

https://www.discogs.com/Petals-Aposiopesis/release/3589833

          1.       Aposiopesis.

I’d been lucky enough to see Petals play live a few times, I liked what I heard. I was supposed to review this Cdr a few years back when I reviewed for another site, Kevin Sanders who was behind the project Petals gave it to me. I never reviewed it, so I am honouring that now. I don’t know a lot about the project, Petals seems to have been around until 2015, with releases on labels like Beartown, Strange Rules as well as Sander’s own Hairdryer Excommunication label which last released in 2020. Petals was good, I don’t understand why it stopped.

Aposiopesis is a brilliant piece of ambient work. It is described as Drones devoid of fidelity and no-octane adventures in spaceless time which is a fully accurate description. It has a haunted drone that does shift and change throughout the 20 minutes leaving the listener held within its atmosphere - this is a strong, sinister work.  

Kevin Sanders – The Bow Bells – Download – 2020 – Hairdryer Excommunication

https://hairdryerexcommunication.bandcamp.com/album/the-bow-bells-3

          1.       The Bow Bells.

8 Years later, the Bow Bells was the last known release by Kevin Sanders, I am intrigued as I seem to have created my own Petals mystery.

The Bow Bells is immediately dark with a guttural texture to the sound. This is a definite evolution from Petals, the sound is darker in comparison to that of Petals. The Bow Bells is made from field recordings of a broken 2020. I wonder what the field recordings are. Voices do seem to appear at one point in the work. The sound seems to rise and drop and is huge when it fills up. The track has a similar length of time to the Petals release; it is equally as strong and possibly excellent – the fire burns strong. I fully recommend checking out Kevin Sanders work via either of the Bandcamp links above.

Army of one 2021.