Member Since: 11/29/2006
Band Website: http://www.23five.org/tarab/index.html
Influences: discarded things, found things, junk, dirt, the ground, rocks, dust, wind, walking aimlessly, scratchy things, decay, most if not all the things I see and hear........Jeph Jerman, Eric La Casa, Loren Chasse, Jim Haynes, Brandon Labelle, Ernie Althoff, Matt Shoemaker, Toy Bizarre, Seth Nehil, Toshiya Tsunoda, Yannick Dauby, Justin Bennett, Artificial Memory Trace, M.Behrens, Bernhard Gunter, Steve Roden, Chris Watson, Lethe, Organum, Giancarlo Toniutti, Nico, Kurt Schwitters, The Boyle Family, Joseph Cornell, Joseph Beuys, Anselm Kiefer, Robert Rauschenberg, Jean Tingley, Arte Povera, Lautreamont, William S. Burroughs, Iain Sinclair, J.G.Ballard, Flann O’Brien, Thomas Pynchon, Samuel Beckett, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Alfred Jarry, David Lynch, Jean-Luc Godard, Werner Herzhog, Sergei Paradjanov, Andrey Tarkovski.
Sounds Like:
tarab's second recording of re-contextualized field recordings and tactile gestures formed into a dynamic, psycho-geographical composition.
AVALIABLE NOW from www.23five.org/ .............................
"Eamon Sprod (aka Tarab) professes a romantic attachment to the notion that
the world is falling apart, a terminal process only enhanced by the intrinsic
obsolescence from the output of consumer culture. Yet, this Australian sound
artist is not one to wallow in the nihilism of such poetics, rather he counterpoints
these thoughts with the allegorical implications of his nom de plume. Tarab is an
Arabic word that doesn't readily translate into English, but it might be best
defined as the ecstatic surrender one can experience when listening to music.
Through installation, performance, and composition, Sprod reinterprets the
physical detritus of the landscape within a hypothetical topography where dirt,
soot, and smog emerge as privileged materials, in to which he has grafted the
potential for a transcendent response. Field recordings are fundamental to this
creative process, bolstered by sympathetic sounds activated by Sprod's own
hands rummaging through crumbling leaves, rusted bits of metal, broken
concrete, and shattered glass, just to name some of the more obvious sources.
Wind Keeps Even Dust Away is only the second documentation of Sprod's
compositions; yet, it is an accomplished work on par with the best of
contemporary sound ecologists (e.g. Chris Watson, Eric La Casa, Toshiya
Tsunoda, etc.). On this album, Sprod presents an intertwining series of
compacted collages that tease aquatic references from abandoned and
overlooked sites of the arid Australian landscape. Every sound of a pipe gurgling
with water is but a mirage of sand, rust, and dirt cleverly tricking the audience's
collective ear. With its subtle transitions and evolving sound structures, Wind
Keeps Even Dust Away figures into the models of psycho-geographical
wandering, as Sprod explores sets of roughly cut textures, resonant frequencies,
and atmospheric vibrations that are intrinsic to an imagined space and then
shifts into another with its particular idiosyncrasies. While the ecstasy that the
word tarab implies may not be an immediate reaction to this album, wonder and
discovery certainly are as experienced through this exemplary album of
re-engineered sonic dislocation." (Label press release)
avaliable from www.naturestrip.com/
Record Label: http://www.23five.org/, http://www.naturestrip.com
Type of Label: Indie