Trii - Music for Desert Reboot

Trii
Music for Desert Reboot
World Of Echo
Germany/UK, 2020/2025
LP

Austere soundscapes and dislocating grooves from the always mysterious TRii grouping, first released on cassette in 2020 and appearing on vinyl here for the first time. Whatever the title was meant to evoke, the music doesn’t sound unlike someone rebooting the desert itself on a dusty old Compaq in some antiquated data center of the universe. Both mechanical & animate, with desolate pings and clattering jams as clumsy as an imitation of life.

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FROM THE LABEL: 

World of Echo unites with the confounding genius of TRii for a highly limited first time vinyl run of 2020's Music For Desert Reboot tape, first released as TRj on the TRjj Musik label and then again as a second cassette by Mascarpone earlier this year. As with all the sounds produced within the TRjj/TRii /TRj/TRi universe, strange illusion is part of the process, and this is certainly music that befits such smoke and mirror nomenclature, a kind of gamelan Werkbund re-programmed via the isolationist sounds of DIY home electronics conceived for a film that might or might not actually exist. Consider this time-dilation rug-pulling that's well in touch with its own mythology, so much so that it's hard to think of any obvious contemporaries, but if you've ever enjoyed the minimalist murk of Civlistijavel, the private quarters confessionals of Thomas Bush's first LP or any one of Guy Gormley's projects, you'll not got too far wrong here. Is further clarification required? That perhaps misses the point, though there is a track that features around two-thirds in entitled 'First Time Realizing the Clock Was Absent' that might function as a form of instruction to the listener. Namely, where does the time go? Music For Desert Reboot might not provide the answer, but it certainly knows how to ask the question. Re-mastered for vinyl by Jose Guerrero at La Plataforma Continental. Edition of 150, with hand-numbered, stickered sleeves. Out now.