Lee Noble at Vacation Vinyl, Saturday, December 3rd, 2011
Lee Noble composes these long (or short) atmospheric parts, building up a strange cinematic ambiance, with noises of broken glass or may be chimes-in-the-wind-like sounds, thanks to a multitude of tapes he is inserting in his K-7 players without stopping the electronic beats of the rhythm box, the loops and swirls of his wobbling synth mixed with a discreet guitar, and rare and ethereal vocals melting in the background.
The Los Angeles-based multi-instrumentalist was doing an in-store performance at Vacation Vinyl on Saturday night, and he was very concentrated on his craft all the time, extremely occupied between his constant tape-changing, his vibrating and resonating Moog synth and his sparse guitar playing, and honestly, I don’t know how he was doing it, as he was playing in a semi darkness, which was perfectly matching the ghostly effect of his strange and experimental music. Ironically the words ‘Death’ and ‘Rage’ were written on his guitar, whereas the music was slowly expanding his druggy-hazy vision, materialized by this wall of sound.
t was almost futuristic music, the sort of thing you would imagine hearing after having gone through a black hole and entered into another dimension where everything has been slowed down to its extreme, with spatial and floating soundscapes which were appeasing and troubling at the same time.
The emotional tension produced by Noble’s music was real, but a complete personal experience, a sort of find-what-you-bring adventure. Lee Noble’s debut LP ‘Horrorism’ was recently released on Bathetic Records.
