Daniel Menche: Names "Glass Forest" his last CD
American sound artist Daniel Menche has let it be known that his long-awaited, often-delayed and regularly asked-for album „Glass Forest“ is now finally being released on Important Records – and that it will be his last CD ever. „It's been on my discography for two years and still it is not out“, Daniel Menche stated almost exactly a year ago, when talking about „Glass Forest“, „The original label that was going to release it is having financial difficulties (...). Glass Forest is a very strange and different recording. Massively layered sounds vibrating all over the place. Almost drone - almost drums but really neither. Very organic and lively sound. Neither can you sleep to it nor can you run with it. Another creature of mine that is alive on its own ready to run into your skull and plant some trees in there....or something like that.““Glass Forest“ will constitute a work in its own right, but also acts as a companion release to „Body Melt“, also out in Important Records. The label concurred with Daniel Menche's bipolar characterisation of the record: „Glass Forest displays a glistening sound world that finely textured with the most delicate of raw organic sound and chaotic electronic noise. Not at all extreme as with Menches previous work but rather a more subtle presence can be heard here on Glass Forest.“
After „Glass Forest“, Daniel Menche will continue to publish music, albeit exclusively on Vinyl, opting for DVDs when presenting films or multimedia projects. „Body Melt“ is already an LP-only album and makes full use of the extended options in terms of artwork: „The artwork will be from an incredible visual artist, Emily Hyde who does the most elegant drawings that are extremely textured and detailed“, Daniel Menche said, „Perfect visual art to represent the recording which is also extremely textured and detailed.“ It should be pointed out, however, that Emily Hyde will also take over design duties for „Glass Forest“.
Even though Important records have called „Glass Forest“ „a highly listenable starting point for any
newcomers curious about Daniel Menche's vast discography“, Menche's own discription sounds slightly more leftfield – if no less alluring: „Very strange and hard to describe, therefore thats what makes it one of my faves. "Hard to describe = GOOD".“
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