
Nickolas Mohanna - Speaker Rotations - Cassette Tape
Boutique small run cassette in a unique no-adhesive, paper package. Includes bonus non-digital track, "Song For An Impossible World". Speaker Rotations is the new sound collection from NY-based artist/composer Nickolas Mohanna, an enchanting arrangement of guitar, trombone, and piano.Rooted in an ongoing improvisational practice, the work arose from live experiments and extended techniques with feedback resonance. The results swell in loops of hypnotic delay cast against stiff digital textures, field recordings, and spatial expressions. The music feels like you are in the room with the artist; it has a presence in headphones but rewards listening aloud where the music can live and breathe.“There is a refusal to genre in this recording that I've embraced in my studio practice where feeling becomes the catalyst,” shares Mohanna, “and these pieces were made in that mode—with an expressionist frame of mind, exploring the dissonance and impermanence of the sounds.”As one sound fades, anothe