“Alffa… Brafo… Charlie.. Delta… [ ..] Allfa… numeric…”

So begins the first album by Welsh avant-gardists gglec.

Its maelstrom of surface noise, throbbing drones, linguistic miscommunication and sinister digital resonances continues with a scratchy sample from a 1962 vinyl album teaching the international Morse code - a long-passed American male voice informs us that…

“Those who know code have a peculiar and often invaluable ability to communicate. Especially in time of war or other serious emergency, the need for code takes on an added significance.”

Amidst voltage-controlled tape hiss and acousmatic sound design, avant-bard Rhys Trimble’s fractured poetics strive to articulate the tensions of the contemporary experience in a sonic miasma of dysfunctional communication technologies - a response to the zombie imperative - multilingual code-making, code-breaking, code-shaking.

credits
Rhys Trimble: Tyniadau Llais a Thestun / Voice and Text Abstractions
j Milo Taylor: Trawsnewidiadau, Golygu a Chymysgu / Transformations, Edit and Mix