artist: GOH LEE KWANG
title: Hands
label: Herbal
country: Malaysia
format: CD
title: Hands
label: Herbal
country: Malaysia
format: CD
"Goh Lee Kwang has, over a series on limited releases, explored sound in a way that is
minimal in construction, but large in impact. Often that impact can be madness. My
sense is that he is fine with any reaction. Hands features nine tracks that burp, stop and
go, screech and sit still. Most seem to have been improvised using tapes and other
assorted manipulated sound effects.
At least by title, the main inspirations here are hands (three tracks), Godot (2) and four
preoccupied with tape. Are they meant to evoke waiting? Moments that can be erased
or leave their marks on the body? Hard to tell. What vocals there are tend to be
nonsensical but insistent, kinda child-like, kinda childish. Yet the slightly odd menace
of the music does not imply innocence. Go figure.
Hands is fairly lengthy investment into a sonic world that seems filled with secrets we
are not meant to know, but to speculate on. Goh Lee Kwang has always drawn a line
between those who will want to investigate his music, and those who will not. This one
is worth a chance." (Mike Wood - Music Emissions)
minimal in construction, but large in impact. Often that impact can be madness. My
sense is that he is fine with any reaction. Hands features nine tracks that burp, stop and
go, screech and sit still. Most seem to have been improvised using tapes and other
assorted manipulated sound effects.
At least by title, the main inspirations here are hands (three tracks), Godot (2) and four
preoccupied with tape. Are they meant to evoke waiting? Moments that can be erased
or leave their marks on the body? Hard to tell. What vocals there are tend to be
nonsensical but insistent, kinda child-like, kinda childish. Yet the slightly odd menace
of the music does not imply innocence. Go figure.
Hands is fairly lengthy investment into a sonic world that seems filled with secrets we
are not meant to know, but to speculate on. Goh Lee Kwang has always drawn a line
between those who will want to investigate his music, and those who will not. This one
is worth a chance." (Mike Wood - Music Emissions)