Composed between 2013 and 2017, 'Aspect Spur Disjecta' presents a singular language of delicate structures. These pieces, shaped from hours of sampled, re-sampled and reworked material, sit somewhere between the austere field of computer music and the organic, improvisatory sound of electroacoustic music.

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Review by John Wall: johnwall.bandcamp.com

'Is it possible, in this present day, to actively “listen” to music in a more concentrated and meaningful way. Short attention spans (no doubt helped by a tsunami of products) and other clichés hide more insidious concerns. Societal anxiety, such as insecurity (e.g. money / housing), alienation, the crisis of capitalism and its attempts at survival via such things as the heightened escalation of empty consumerism that is devouring this planet and our minds (the list could go on) prohibit our ability for a calm and more reflective approach to listening to music So into this fucked up historical context it’s quite difficult and some might say completely pointless to release into the Bandcamp bubble world a set of short sound pieces that demand that you make time to actively engage with this work.

Sam Ridout sets out six detailed and exquisitely precise compositions which by their very nature require your fullest attention. Their extreme quietness belies a strong abstract tension. Its linearity allows for no distractions as each clear sound (surrounded by its own silence) flows towards a structurally coherent compositional ending. So much “experimental music” (or should that be abstract sound with an easily accessible rhythmical pulse) means that this form of computer generated, beat free, sculptured abstract music with its own internal structural logic tends to get overlooked.

Don’t because you’d be missing out on something that, though profoundly unfashionable (thank god) deserves much wider recognition. That sadly, is unlikely in this musical climate of reverb overload, pretentious conceptualism, bombastic superficiality, grotesque “boundary challenging” dross, a thousand musical releases every hour (yawn). I could go on but defining what Aspect Spur Disjecta is not, in musical terms, is just bringing out the old reactionary in me. This work is as “pure” as it’s possible to be. Loaded with a meaning concentrated within its own compositional structure. Form and content perfectly aligned.'