The excellent Interval label continues its winning run with this new album … Read Full Bio ↴The excellent Interval label continues its winning run with this new album from composer Ido Govrin, who co-runs the imprint. The title, Moraine, refers to the pummelled and granulated bedrock that resides beneath a glacier. Govrin invites parallels between this and the obliterating digital resynthesis techniques he uses in the making of his album, which take acoustic instrumentation like cello and violin and shatter them into atomised gusts of sound. 'Push' does an especially good job of this, taking blurry strands of string music and incrementally morphing them into a raw, uncompromising blast of dissonance. Going even further, 'Recessional' experiments with outright noise and the kind of fiery, extreme sound processing that Tim Hecker and Fennesz manage to coax some beauty out of, but perhaps the most subtle and impressive works are 'Ground' and 'Lateral', which both manage to combine computer-generated composition with acoustic performance in a very natural and musical fashion but without ever sounding easy. The former lays down a sheen of galvanised laptop drone as swells of cello sporadically interject, creating a bit of clashing discordance along the way, and while the latter composition is more pure and minimal in its synthesis of tones, there's still a challenging use of harmony to keep things interesting.