Golden Feelings: Better Weather (self-released, 2023)

July 23, 2023 at 4:06 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Golden Feelings: Better Weather

The newest album from Golden Feelings (Dustin Krcatovich) contains recordings of “Better Weather”, a piece performed using a matrix of 64 loops, including software instruments, live instruments, and field recordings. Randomly selected cards serve as graphic scores, indicating when to use “active” and “passive” loops. The piece is never performed the same way twice. Two recordings are included along with a short interlude. There’s other generative music pieces you could compare this sort of method to, but it’s more important to just focus on the music and what’s happening and how it makes you feel. The first part mostly sounds like walking through a natural area basking in bright sunlight, and eventually happening upon a gently flowing stream. The water sounds are easy to hear, but there’s also some very soft, infrequent beats audible if you turn it up loud enough, maybe like distant footprints or objects falling from trees. The second version feels a bit lighter, a bit glassier, a bit more distant and perhaps more imaginary.

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