Opening our two-night series highlighting the Kye record label, electronics manipulator Tim Goss, Lambkin’s former Shadow Ring collaborator, appears with Call Back the Giants, an inter-generational duo with his daughter, Chloe Mutter. Austin-based artist Vanessa Rossetto conjures evocative visual-soundscapes in a duo with a secret guest TBA. Matt Krefting, who came to prominence with northeastern rock outfits Son of Earth and the Believers, presents his refined, textural soundscapes in a solo performance.
Kye’s aesthetic involves “organizing sound” as opposed to “making music,” in the words of founder/label-head Graham Lambkin, the sound artist and composer who established himself through the sonic experiments of the Shadow Ring. Lambkin and Kye’s artists create deep, atmospheric, and evocative pieces through the use of electronics, analog tape, field recordings, and sound collage. Kye’s catalog contains artists from varied backgrounds with distinct approaches to organized sound, weaving together concepts from both the sonic and visual arts, as well as the sounds of the everyday.
Call Back the Giants is the inter-generational duo of electronics manipulator Tim Goss and his daughter, Chloe Mutter. Goss honed his approach to electronics in The Shadow Ring, the legendary trio that also included Kye Records’s founder, Graham Lambkin. A step removed from the post-punk primitivism of The Shadow Ring, Call Back the Giants builds swelling, pulsing atmospheres from synth drones and sampled recordings - “[etching Goss’s] former project’s stark minimalism into something more pastoral and accessible” (Tiny Mix Tapes). Call Back The Giants has released two records on Kye to date, 2011’s The Rising and 2013’s The Marianne.
Austin-based Composer, violist, and artist Vanessa Rossetto’s work explores the connections between soundmaking and her background in the visual arts. Using combinations of classical instrumentation, field recordings, electronics, and sounded objects, Rossetto conjures evocative visual-soundscapes. Her music and artwork aim to focus on and explore narratives that are hidden from plain sight. She has released three full-length albums on Kye Records to date, 2010’s Mineral Orange, 2012’s Exotic Exit, and most recently Whole Stories (2014). In addition to her works released with Kye, Rossetto also runs her own CD-R label, Music Appreciation, which she founded in 2008 primarily to circulate self-produced material.
Matt Krefting is a composer, performer, and writer based in Easthampton, Massachusetts. His music is rooted in his early experiments with tape, guitar, and voice - leading to experiences with the avant-folk trio Son of Earth, Believers, and Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace records. The self-described “non-musician” prefers to delve into soundscape than traditionally-organized pieces. Nevertheless, Krefting has engaged with source materials ranging from field recordings to classic rock songs. He released Lymph Est, his gorgeous yet unsettling first album on Kye Records earlier this year, where “Treated voices, piano, samples and T.V. grabs are ushered into a series of soft-focus miniatures that are built to be razed in a perpetual cycle of triumph and defeat.”
