Back is January, we wrote about Kuchisabishii, an album by experimental duo Nuisance crafted from a library of sounds named Poetic Devices which the pair built over a period of two years. “A shifting, impressionistic exploration of intimacy and immediacy,” as we described it. “A wonderful example of music made from the ground up, from atomic level building blocks to an album-sized ecosystem.”
William J. Seidel and Ryan E. Weber (REW<<, Eric & Magill) have returned with a brand new EP, Qanisquineq, a release which builds upon the foundations of Kuchisabishii, reimaging some of its tracks and creating original material too. The songs are crafted from the same fifteen virtual instruments coded in the Poetic Devices database, but this time are reconfigured by Scott Robert Allen and Eric Osterman into brand new interpretations. The result is a release which highlights some of the new sounds available to the duo, not only pushing the songs in novel directions but opening up entire avenues for the project to explore in the future.
The all new title track blends ethereal dream pop with the melancholic weight of a passing day, its detailed sound washed with an unguarded poignance. Not dream pop so much as daydream pop. A humble fantasy imagined into an empty room. The organic pattering of ‘Equanimity’ on Kuchisabishii is replaced by a starker, stripped-back style, while the spacey sci-fi synths of ‘Accouchement’ are slowed down and blown up into near cinematic textures. ‘Vestige’ sits somewhere between the two, its intro hollowed out from the previous version but soon growing vivid in its slow plaintive manner. Each track recognisable in its link to its predecessor but distinctively different, standing as a testament to near endless versatility the Poetic Devices library now offers.