BLUME, FÉLIX - Fog Horns

"French sound artist Félix Blume keeps pushing the boundaries of field recordings for everyone's enjoyment. Fog Horns captures the sounds of boat horns in Piraeus, Athens, Greece, the port city that serves some of the most important ferry routes in Greece nowadays. Yes, boat horns are annoying, sometimes disturbing and even absurdly disrupting if you live in a port city or one that is blessed with the arrival of cruises -- everyone knows that. But recordings of funerals could be tricky, and Félix Blume pulled a gem out of 2018's Death In Haiti: Funeral Brass Bands & Sounds from Port Au Prince (CREP 051LP). And he has done it again. The A side reveals a long track recorded during a fog horn concert whilst side B features three "remixes" of the same recordings, paying respect to what Ingram Marshall did in Fog Tropes in three different "movements". In a way, B side sounds like the perfect soundtrack for the recent remake of Suspiria (2018). But Thom Yorke got in the way. Jokes aside