Reviews of Folding, And The Tea [12k1021]

Textures en suspension, flottantes, à la fois irréelles et accessibles.

Tasteful melodies and harmonic patterns tease one another with great frequency and the interplay between harmony and dissonance.

Tiny sketches which spontaneously spring from the electronic elaboration in real time of delicate guitar chords, stellar dust of glitch encrusted on the old good six strings in a dialectical brood over continuity and fragmentariness

Willits setzt der digitalen Atomisierung eine Theorie der Falte entgegen.

the sixteen pieces of Folding, And The Tea thus generate an origami music where each click-beat becomes a crack in a sound continuum, a fold in a soft-key material.

Alors que vient de sortir le dernier disque de Taylor Deupree, son label, 12k, continue à signer de jeunes artistes et publie le nouvel album de Christopher Willits, musicien américain déjà auteur d’albums autoproduits et d’un disque paru l’an passé sur le label irlandais Fällt.

Willits sounds as though he’s grinning his rear end off.

It is the transformation of traditional, easily identifiable sounds into strange, creepy noises that give these tracks such resonating force.

An album not to be missed and bound to be remembered for a long time by the followers of the genre.

Warm, delicate and intimate.

12k newcomer Willits achieves a similar feeling [as Deupree on Stil.] through punctuated guitar-work, as Folding is equal parts Vini Reilly, Akira Rabelais, and Christophe Charles. An exciting turn for 12k.