If James Kirby taught listeners anything about post-emo with Caretaker, and Jónó Mí Ló paved the way for conceptual sound sculpting/carving/mashing/scaping, then y’all know AyGeeTee is always taking those ideas a step further. Or sorta like taking what Infinity Frequencies fucks with to epic proportions (and I despise the misuse of the word “epic”). And I could dive deeper into the lineage of audible curators throughout history that AyGeeTee SOUNDS like (and has been potentially influenced by), but two releases were just dropped by the progressauteur, so it’s time for a bit of that double-feature action.
SIGH is the first release dropped by AyGeeTee in mid September, and it’s more than just an exertion of air, but a trade wind of season-change. Akin to most of the emotive music you grew up listening to when the darkness set in earlier as the Earth got colder, SIGH depicts a landscape of the on-coming death to photosynthesis, painting the orange, red, and yellow colors that occur just before frostbite sets in. With careful measure, AyGeeTee layers melodies and sounds that some-what co-join, but mostly harmonize in similar emotion, no matter how opposite or disjointed they may flutter. And it’s fucking brilliant. Get a case of the feels below and endlessly as, “Why?” Answer: it’s all in the construction of well constructed, patiently listened-to sounds.
Although only six tracks in length, the second feature to this double is Long Time to Spend with Your Head in Your Hands, the entirety of its time is only 15 minutes sorter than SIGH. Clocking in with more than an hour of ear-caressing sounds, AyGeeTee proves this is a Long Time to Spend with Your Head in Your Hands. Yet, these tracks are more of a pick-me-up than a dwelling upon the length one rests their weary noggin. Even the previously covered “Scar 5 (Robin Williams)” draws upon more fragile sounds, but buzzes them in an array of blushing that warms ones face enough to pick it back up and courageously face the challenges all our lives throw our way. AyGeeTee has the musical body of a goddess, hewed and stiffened by tenants of “human being” as an action/verb, rather than an overarching noun all us thumb sucking, bi-pedal knowledge suckers use as a general definition for life.
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