Momentary Lapses, by BAG X Collapsing Drums

Momentary Lapses

by BAG X Collapsing Drums

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1.	Made for Living 03:43	buy track
2.	Bounce 05:09	buy track
3.	Changing Room 07:25	buy track
4.	Redshifted (long version) 07:02	buy track
5.	Ribboned 04:07	buy track
6.	Cut Me Off I'm Crying 04:39	buy track
7.	Upwards 08:19	buy track
8.	Self Verdigris 09:06	buy track

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‘DeSchutter treats words and syllables as malleable matter; haptic objects to be stretched out, twisted and molded. Allison and Behrens’ electronics, taking in dub-deep negative space, pristine sound design and ghostly frequencies, add not so much a backing track as a dialogic component. Pronunciation weaves into beats, language harmonises with pure music, to create an outline of the slippery worlds that can’t be pinned down by either sound or words’
Daryl Worthington, The Quietus

BAG X COLLAPSING DRUMS is a collaboration between experimental producer Collapsing Drums (Charlie Behrens) and spoken word/electronic duo BAG (Jody DeSchutter and Dan Allison). Modular synth, spoken word, field recording, experimental play and abstract guitar are a few of the practices visited by the project.

Momentary Lapses was born of an improvisational outburst sewn into a back and forth process, the three perspectives nurturing creation and dissection along the way. This album maps multiple landscapes and conditions as drawn by the trio in an exploratory document, providing a journey through textures and atmospheres, beats and spaces, construction and reassembly. During the 18 months of the album’s creation, a series of bereavements disrupted and informed BXCD’s journey.

DeSchutter’s dada-esque verse moves purposely forward, fragmented through synaesthetic habitats. Her words, woven into the electronic compositions of Behrens and Allison, touch on themes of re-interpretation, incongruity, and longing. Momentary Lapses celebrates all that is unknown, pluralistic, and paradoxical as proposed antidotes to a binary mode of knowing. Sonically bridging the gaps between post-punk, IDM and experimental, BAG X COLLAPSING DRUMS promises a fresh take on the possibilities of sonic abstraction.

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released January 27, 2023

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Collapsing Drums London, UK

Experimental sounds founded in lockdown 2020 by visual / sound artist and designer Charlie Behrens.

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