“A drone isn’t a sound you create,” a friend once told me; it’s a force you tap into.” It’s the ringing in your ears after the house has fallen silent, the flutter of a fan or a walkway lined with trees. You can take it or leave it, hear it or ignore it, lure it out of its hiding place with a keyboard or a bow. Meridian Signals‘ “Taos Hum” may feel like an entreaty to tune in, drop out, and do a few downward dogs. But cast it as the soundtrack to the most infuriating part of your day, and you’ll tap into the fellow feeling in a sea of blaring car horns, the calm within the information flow. Rise above, ride the plateau.
Meridian Signals, “Taos Hum” (Mercator Songs, self-released)
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Spotlighted on Altered Zones.
Words: Emilie Friedlander
The Mercator Songs tape is available for download on Meridian Signals’ bandcamp.
Tags: Mercator Songs, Meridian Signals, Taos Hum