gglec .-..-..

“Alffa... Brafo... Charlie.. Delta... [ ..] Allfa... numeric...”

So begins the first album by Welsh avant-gardists gglec.

Its maelstrom of surface noise, throbbing drones, linguistic miscommunication and sinister digital resonances continues with a scratchy sample from a 1962 vinyl album teaching the international Morse code - a long-passed American male voice informs us that...

“Those who know code have a peculiar and often invaluable ability to communicate. Especially in time of war or other serious emergency, the need for code takes on an added significance.”

Amidst voltage-controlled tape hiss and acousmatic sound design, avant-bard Rhys Trimble’s fractured poetics strive to articulate the tensions of the contemporary experience in a sonic miasma of dysfunctional communication technologies - a response to the zombie imperative - multilingual code- making, code-breaking, code-shaking.

• https://gglec.bandcamp.com/album/-