"Knifing Ravel" - a test of a recording approach for an album that never came to be.

In 2023 I experimented with prepared turntable setups. So I stuck a contact mic on a boxknife blade, letting it act as a makeshift pickup.

Appologies to the Ravel admirers. Live looping with an Octatrack I had back then, choice pieces of outboard gear.

The result is this incredibly textural and dense layers of drowned and washed-out orchestral drones. I never recorded an album with it.