BODY TRAFFIC, by Malvern Brume

BODY TRAFFIC

by Malvern Brume

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Harrison Phinney MAL continues its streak of left field brilliance, grafting another piece onto their diverse yet cohesive catalog. emphasis here is on texture and tone. timbres are metallic and submerged, think u-boat wreckage and scrapyards gone to seed. inertia becomes an emotional state, punctuated only by moments of tension and terror. never do we feel anything resembling salvation. the best to hope for is purgatory, liminal suspension, a dream from which one never wakes. Favorite track: Body Traffic.

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1.	Through Beaked Fog Horns 04:33	buy track
2.	Body Traffic 05:37	buy track
3.	Moss Spines Clenched 04:44	buy track
4.	Tense Branches Waver 03:18	buy track
5.	Cornered into Sleat 06:35	buy track
6.	Bri Dun 05:59	buy track

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Boomkat Review:
Jon K and Elle Andrews’ MAL imprint returns with a new LP from one of the London experimental underground's best kept secrets, Rory Salter aka Malvern Brume. His music is rare, eccentric and mysterious - somewhere between Coil's bleak ritual magick and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop's most experimental, minimal fringes.
Malvern Brume operates just beneath the radar, occasionally turning up at Café OTO lineups and on a smattering of releases for Low Company, Alter, Infant Tree and Kasual Plastik - but he’s never one to shout too loudly about his work. ‘Body Traffic’ is his most interesting set to date, laying bare a process melting found sounds, field recordings and spoken word into throbbing, pulsing rhythms. It’s an evocation of a fraught mindset during the early weeks of lockdown in 2020; sequestered in his flat next to a trainline, the infrasonic - and more audible - rumbles of rolling stock and a nagging sense of dread infecting his ambiguously discomfiting recordings.

Operating in a headspace that values world-building and vivid, visual emotionality, Salter’s careful melodies are familiar - the distant, weeping melancholia of 1970s British TV hangs off the recordings like net curtains, and his atmosphere loops into experiments that weave through bare traces of industrial music, blank-faced electro pop, and hedonistic Brummie techno, all reduced to a cinder.

The mood is set on the bellyaching resonance and crawling walls of the title tune, while 'Through Beaked Fog Horns' is drowned beneath morning mists: lopsided synth drones choke and drift, percussion mutates into inebriated bubbles, and tape-f*cked environmental whirrs create an atmosphere that’s hard to decipher in one take.

‘Moss Spines Clenched’ follows cryptic stains on peeling flocking, and the icy creep of ‘Tense Branches Waver’ quivers beyond a cracked windowpane. The artist’s voice appears from beneath a cardboard box fort in the imaginary world of ‘Cornered Into Sleat’ as a distant drum beats out a marching thud and traffic squeals are sculpted into chirpy whistles, before ‘Bri Dun’ resolves the eerie tension in an OOBE-like ascent above the dado-rail and across the tracks, watching himself fade into a dissociative bliss.

"All chatter falls quiet…” Salter murmurs thru saturation and white noise. It’s a sound that’s gonna stick with us for a while.

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released December 1, 2022

All tracks produced by Rory Salter
Mastered by Rashad Becker
Designed by Jon K
Edition of 300 copies housed in a deluxe screen printed sleeve by Yas at Small Press

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Tape 1

Mar 2024
PRESSURE (PART II)

Jul 2023
PRESSURE (PART I)

May 2023
BODY TRAFFIC

Dec 2022
WEHIKUŁ

Sep 2022
Writings Ov Tomato

May 2022
Cruise

Nov 2021

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