Bone Folder is a new, experimental British, London-based duo of bassist J Kamboh and guitarist Mat Martin, attempting to forge its own noisy, drone-tinged, free-improvised language.
The duo frames its self-titled debut album with a cryptic quote of John Cage: «Every something is an echo of nothing», and a poetic one by British poet William Wordsworth: «No familiar shapes / Remained, no pleasant images of trees, / Of sea or sky, no colours of green fields;/ But huge and mighty forms, that do not live/ Like living men, moved slowly through the mind / By day, and were a trouble to my dreams» (Extract from the Prelude).
Bone Folder offers three dark yet intimate, open-form drones, composed of effects-laden, distorted, sustained, and repetitive, disparate motifs, developed as an intuitive response to the vast empty skies and rough-hewn beauty of the surrounding landscapes. These pieces were recorded in single takes, with no overdubs, cementing the duo’s organic interplay.
Bone Folder describes its aesthetics as reconstructing Morton Feldman’s iconic, abstract, and minimalist Rothko Chapel from monolithic, statis-centered walls of sound. The duo explores time and space as highly resonant, fragile, and only briefly melodic, synaesthetic dimensions. Or as Bone Folder calls it: «Sound and space captured in Bible-black amber».
Eyal Hareuveni
J Kamboh (bass), Mat Martin (guitar)
