Matt Davignon: The 3am Music (Ribosome Music, 2013)
July 5, 2013 at 5:13 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment
Matt Davignon: The 3am Music
Haven’t heard much from this guy in a while, but he released a few albums on Edgetone during the mid ’00s. Supposedly he works with modified drum machines and processing devices, but it definitely doesn’t sound like any type of music you’d normally associate with a drum machine. There’s rhythms, sometimes even beats and bass, but not used in a conventional sense at all. Very exploratory and minimal. Feels sort of crushed and fractured, and with lots of murky underwater sounds. A title like “Still Life Of Dust Motes” fits perfectly; it sounds like field reordings of miniature, household things, but it’s all electronic. “Stitches And Mends” has a bit of a melody threading its way over a drone bed, and “Your Pulsating Little World” has an even more broken melody shuddering its way on top of more ominous droning, and it’s quite beautiful. As the album’s title suggests, it’s all about sleep, falling in and out of consciousness, dreams, and isolation from the rest of the world, and as such I’ve been listening to this a lot while trying to get to sleep, or while waking up in the middle of the night, and it complements that perfectly. Available at
Bandcamp.
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