E is for Experimental

Somehow I missed reviewing Otra Carpeta’s very excellent cero = ce ro back in June 2010, I was not ignorant enough to miss putting on my 100 Notable Netlabel Releases of 2011. I’m hoping at least some readers have gone through the list and found gems like Otra Carpeta’s release on the exceptional experimental netlabel Pan y Rosas.

So I was quite pleased to see that Carlos Edelmiro Pechant aka Otra Carpeta had released a new album, EP E, on another great experimental netlabel A.M.P.. Eldelmiro’s work on the six track 30 minute extended play successfully melds noise and glitch with improvisation. The work is a times a gentle noise and other moments rough and glandular as with “2″ (mp3). Even “2′s” tumble and tough beginning, the track ends to tubular squelches and ringing bells. Throughout EP E, Eldelmiro entreats the listener with various process noises, not randomly, but in a structured, almost song-like fashion.