Articles
2014 TOP 10s & 20s
Dday One

Albums
2562
Poppy Ackroyd
Blueneck
Nicholas Chase
Vicky Chow
Carlos Cipa
Dale Cooper + Witxes
Dday One
Federico Durand
English + Vitiello
Everyday Dust
Eyck and Tarnow
Faded Ranger
Grouper
Robert Hood
Human Greed
The Invaderz
Thomas Köner
Kontext
Akira Kosemura
Heiko Laux
Norberto Lobo
Andrew McIntosh
Monolog
Aina Myrstener Cello
Northumbria
Michael Nyman
One World Symphony
Postma & Osby
David Pritchard
[.que]
See Through Trio
Dirk Serries
Jakob Skøtt
Miguel Zenón

Reissue
Hassell and Eno

Compilations
Air Texture Volume IV
Emerging Organisms 5
Hyperdub 10.4

EPs / Singles
David Ahlen
Blu Mar Ten
Boston feat. Solis
DIFFER-Ent (By DJ Bone)
Gone Beyond
Matthias Grübel
Lami / Ratti
Lubomyr Melnyk
Ryo Murakami
Om Unit
Pursuit Grooves

Gone Beyond: Facet #1
Transfer Station

Facet #1 is the premiere release from Santa Fe, New Mexico-based producer Dahvin Bugas aka Gone Beyond on his own Transfer Station label. In this first of four seven-inch releases in the series, Bugas teams up with Bill Russell, an obscure talent who, though originally from Kansas City, retired in Santa Fe after a long career as a railroad engineer. On the ten-minute single's two tracks, Russell reads excerpts from different sources, among them original poetry and words by Sun Ra (with whom he was close) backed by Bugas's dusty, loop-heavy constructions.

In the opening cut “After the Storm,” Russell muses upon temporal matters (“Never tomorrow comes...”) against a woozy backdrop of beats, marimbas, and strings, all of it smeared with healthy doses of vinyl crackle. With acoustic bass, flute, and bells evoking the sound and spirit of the ‘60s jazz era, the B-side's “Movement Out” kicks into gear with a robust drum groove while Russell waxes philosophical once more, this time about the infinite, dimensional planes, and other spiritual phenomena.

Things move fast in Gone Beyond's action-packed world, and consequently the tracks are over before you know it. And so, while Facet #1 definitely provides no small amount of aural pleasure, for maximum effect the best approach might be to experience all eight of the series' tracks as a totality.

December 2014