I was ripping There Be A Breeze Though Da Wind Has Gone in the background last week while I was doing some other things around the apartment. Maybe I was making dinner? Might have been finishing up some work? Not sure, but I was doing some other things that didn't (directly) involve listening to PEASANT YERMO. At some point I noted that the tape was pretty cool and that I should pay closer attention when I got around to editing the tracks and preparing them for (your) consumption. And then I found myself on the couch just...listening. Carefully listening. Might have been sitting next to the cat (or she next to me, because that's the dynamic here at TEHQ3) but really what I was doing was listening. Deep Listening. As the cover (or the title?) suggests a sonic journey into into a completely different time and mental space, and "Nathan's Lamento" spends a quarter hour making sure you get there safely by drawing you a path with glitches in the frame. When you listen deeply, those glitches will draw that space and you're welcome to spend the next quarter hour inside PEASANT YERMO's world instead of living as an observer. Take a recording of a tent revival made from the dark side of the woods, press it onto a scratched slate 78 and run it through Sonic Boom's quiet addled imagination. Nothing sounds like it. I think PEASANT YERMO is associated with a punk band in some kind of way, but I truly hope that this is not (or does not become) a side project of any kind - this is Level Five Genius Sound. The power of repetition and patience manifested in the form of a thirty minute cassette. I eventually got up off of the couch (when the cat said it was time), but I was never the same.
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