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Eli Wallis - Swum To Phasis [Inner Demons Records - 2024]

Here’s a 3-inch CDR  mixing choppy electro texturing, with slowly baying-to-warbling horn-based soundscaping.  It’s a release that manages to be both eerily alien and lightly searing.

The release appears on Florida’s Inner Demon Records- been presented in the label house style monochrome fold-over slip/ cover and plastic sleeve with abstract textured-like artwork. The release can be found here

The Eli Wallis project- not sure it’s a person or a project name- is from Vancouver BA, with the artists behind it being active since 2011.  On the projects’ bandcamp there are a hundred-plus releases.

We open with “The Demented Flame”. This is just over six minutes of steady bubbling to plinking 'n' plonking electronics- this is edged with wavering-if-at-points piecing horn work- with a felt/ melancholia air deep down.  Next, we have “Callistoan Flora” which is the longer of the three tracks here at just over the ten-minute mark. It’s a drifting sonic sea of droning-to-baying horn work, and steady-to-running-down fairground touched electro bob ‘n’ ebb.

Finally, we have nearly five and a half minutes of “Pines Of The Past” which mixes steadily glitching ‘n’ bobbing micro-toned electronics, and steady baying and flowing of hornwork. This track in particular brought to mind the kinda of thing you might find on the 12k label- though with more wavering and warbling edges.

Swum To Phasis is the second release I’ve heard from this project- and I’m once again impressed by the well-realized and distinctive sound pallet on display.

Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5

Roger Batty
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