Extroverted introspection has always been the guiding principle of RVNG Intl. The label’s recent noticeable change of course towards musical approaches that pick up on folkloristic forms fits perfectly into this tradition. Although Delisa Paloma-Sisk regularly works with an acoustic guitar for her music under the name Diatom Deli, her third album and RVNG debut is more reminiscent of the airy ambient of ana roxanne or the privatissima of claire rousay than of Joan Baez or Townes van Zandt. This is due to the generous use of field recordings – ocean noise, of course, but also telephone calls and banal dialogues – as well as to the fact that Paloma-Sisk uses her voice less as a vehicle for storytelling and more as an instrument. On top of that, she uses wafting synth textures that contrasts all those all-too organic additions with artificial sounds. However, these contrasts intertwine in the course of the eight pieces and increasingly mix in the course of the album, interlocking inner and outer worlds in deliciously bizarre ways. »Time~Lapse Nature« may be an archetypal RVNG album in one sense, but also a rare record far beyond the label’s catalogue.
Ben Frost
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