Inexplicable hours opens on the one hand new ways based on field recordings, static electronics and distant pulsations, and continues on the other hand the exploration of drone and ambient but in a brighter, less aggressive, less tense way, almost reminding sometimes
Brian Eno's Obscure series.
Inexplicable hours is the sequel of the successful six-CD box set
Elapsed time, also released by Sonoris in 2017. The first LP documents a new direction in his music, with some of his last electroacoustic experimentations with audio generators, field recordings, and various electronic devices. The second one explores the same ambient/drone territories as the boxset, with tracks less static and more complex than it appears on the first listen. And as always with recent Kevin Drumm's music there's a sense of majesty, of mystery and a melancholic beauty that is uniquely his own.
Experimental musician based in Chicago Kevin Drumm (born 1970) is one of the world's pre-eminent prepared guitar players. Since his emergence in the experimental music scene in the 1990s, he has perpetually shaken up conventions of various sub-genres with his major albums, for example, shifting from the tabletop/prepared guitar with his first self-titled album, to noise with Sheer Hell Miasma, to ambient/drone with Imperial Distortion. Drumm has collaborated with many international artists from various musical scenes, from improvised and electroacoustic music to free jazz, noise and industrial music: Taku Sugimoto,
Martin Tétreault,
Axel Dörner, Lucio Capece & Radu Malfatti,
Jérôme Noetinger,
Thomas Ankersmit, Prurient,
Daniel Menche, John Wiese, Mats Gustafsson, Ken Vandermark,
Mika Vainio,
Jim O'Rourke, Jason Lescalleett,
Peter Rehberg,
Michael Esposito...
He has also worked with the artist group Simparch.
