Ironing "Nassau"
This is one interesting record. “Nassau” is composed of microcassette recordings from a cruise that Andrew Chadwick (the man behind the Ironing moniker) took to Nassau, mixed with live Bahamian radio. The recordings were assembled and mastered in late 2005, so it's strange that this CD-R took so long to release.
There are over thirty tracks on this release, and it clocks in at over 74 minutes long – a little too long than the contents deserve. The music comes across as noisy channel surfing, interspersed with foghorns and a variety of other mysterious sounds. It's interesting, reminding me of the tape splice exercises of Gastric Female Reflex or even the damaged sample-ridden pop of Eric Copeland. It's just too damn long, however! I have recently become enamored of Caribbean rhythms, and “Nassau” is obviously chock full of them. I just wish some more editing were done to shorten the overall length of the record, if only to preserve the sense of novelty. 6/10 -- Bryon Hayes (4 August, 2009)
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