I like this CD and it makes me want to have a chat with the creator. The idea of sampling the sounds of household things, and mixing it with dense bass lines and looped synthesizer riffs – all depending on the mood needing to be expressed – is appealing. It hints at an interesting artist, and his work here is great.
This is the third Build Buildings CD and there are a dozen songs. It isn’t a low and mellow sound, but these are not hyper-, drilling, hard-to-breath-in numbers either. I would say collectively they provide a space for contemplation.
Hmmm, electronic notion provision songs; keen dinner background tunes; writing-those-people-you-should-have-a-month-ago music; digging-out-the-writers-block music; or perhaps the make-a-list-of-things-to-get-done-this-year soundtrack; looking-for-that-note-you-lost-somewhere-in- your-place music; sitting-down-and-remembering, just- starting-to-fade times. You know – action that is nice to play when you've got a bit of thinking and mulling to do.
Now I am not sure about your experience in buying online, but this CD, which is a self-release, can only be had by going to a website unless, I guess, you know Ben Tweel personally. So give it a listen and if it is your cup of academic and aural tea, I would say go ahead buy it, have it sent to you and then you can have some nice songs to take with you the next time you go for an idea and memory swim.
