Ankündigung: Play loud! bringen im März ein Album heraus, auf dem insgesamt 15 Acts Stücke aus Michael Vincent Wallers drittem Longplayer “Moments” (Unseen Worlds 2019) präsentieren. Auf diesem wurden die Kompositionen des La Monte Young- und Bunita Marcus-Schülers von R. Andrew Lee am Piano und William Winant, Moments am Vibraphon interpretiert. Die nun vorliegenden Remixe offenbaren durch die recht unterschiedlichen, zwischen neuer Musik, Ambient, Avantrock und verschiedener Elektronik angesiedelten Stile der Interpretierenden zahlreiche Subtexte der Stücke. Beteiligt sind Moor Mother, Jlin, DJ Marcelle/Another Nice Mess, XiuXiu, Yu Su, Fennesz, Loraine James, Prefuse 73, Lex Luger, Jefre-Cantu Ledesma, Lafawndah, Carmen Villian, Levon Vincent, Tom VR und Ka Baird. Das Album erscheint als Doppel-LP und digital.
“Moments Remixes began from a conversation with Jlin. We did an interview together for Talkhouse in fall of 2019, in season with the original Moments release on Unseen Worlds. Her poignant and effusive dialogue sparked the inspiration for us to do a remix together. That organically evolved into a full project idea. Xiu Xiu did the second remix in January 2020, and before things continued further – the pandemic was upon us. During the course of the pandemic, it evolved more, and organically became a more focused project for the isolation and lack of in-person collaborative environments/performance halls. All of but one remix were completed by 2021, and then refined and curated further over the following (four) years. The highlighted dialogue across the album is how these sparse, melodic minimalism in piano and vibraphone could manifest in a diversity of experimental sub-genres: electronica, IDM, avant-rock, drone/ambient. The careful curation and illustrative collaborators elicit the transportive ‘new moments’ and permeable qualities of the core compositions, that discover uncharted life in this project”. (Michael Vincent Waller)