5. Justin WalterUnseen Forces
This is another one like the Dylan Henner record, where I’ll buy copies of it everywhere I find it for fear that I might not have a copy. I think he only made one other album and then he made this record. I regularly go online just to check in, to see if he’s done anything. He hasn’t done anything since this and I find it slightly infuriating, but at the same time I think there’s a part of me that doesn’t want him to make another record, because this one is such a perfect weird thing. Again, it’s just a beautiful sort of ambient thing. I guess it’s similar to the Dylan Henner one in that it’s almost a computer singing. He uses one of these EVI valve instrument things which I think are very obscure, hard-to-find 1970s wind-controlled analogue synths and they look insane. I don’t think many people have used them. I’ve tried to find one ever since. But as a result, it just has this otherworldly feel to it. It feels like it’s come from another planet. I think he toured with Colin Stetson for a long time. I think he was his trumpet player, so he’s come at it obviously being a fabulous trumpeter, but then somehow, he allowed this bizarre electronic instrument into his soul. I can tell that the album was mostly improvised and then edited up into sections, but it’s quite a strange record. It really talks to my soul. I listen to it a lot. There are certain records which, even though they were released a long time ago, I still listen to monthly, almost like a physical need, to rejuvenate myself with this unseen force. But it’s a whole world within this record. It’s all-consuming.
