STEVEN LANCE LEDBETTER - ORGAN FANS (PART 1, PART 2) (7" by editon
...)
The title and sleeve of this disc are very informative: the two sides
are filled with one track each, both of a drony nature and yes, they are
organ fans. Recorded and mixed into a dense layer one side one and a more
esotheric layer on side two. The composition is subtle and changes are
slow (at least on 33 rpm) and it seems to me that there are no FX added
or other manipulations done. But something is missing here. I think it's
probably the duration; it should have been longer to achieve full satisfaction.
Actually this means that the sound is good, the composition is there,
but that there is simply too little of it. So for a next release, Ledbetter
should get some more time I think. (Meelkop Roel )
from Vital Weekly 295 | Week 42 | 18 October 2001
is the sound of five electric chord organs, plugged in and left to breathe of their own volition while the microphones gently suck up the evidence. The two parts here are remarkably different, in their own static ways, reminding one alternately of a cave full of mouth-breathers and the whoosh of a giant ceramic thimble rotating slowly in deep space.
from Wire Magazine 215 | January 2002
