Silvia Kastel - The Gap
Artist: Silvia Kastel
Rating: DECENT
Genres: Electronic
Released: 2016
Type: Album
Label: Noisekölln Tapes
Link: Bandcamp
The Gap is made in a period wherein Silvia physically had just left Puglia and was trying to settle in Berlin, yet mentally feeling as in a void. The Gap is truly a modern classic and brings back memories of a time when the term Electronic Music still mostly referred to Avant-Garde and dark Psychedelic Electronic Music and was not yet simplified and made synonymous with Dance as is the case nowadays unfortunately. In fact, its music could easily have been released at the end of the '70s or early '80s with its reverberant analog sound consisting of Kastel’s distorted abstruse voice, slowed down with barely functioning tape delays and paired with rotten vintage synthesizers which she found left on the corner of a Puglian Street, leading to a dark personal voice recalling feelings of misery, regret, false hope, fear, loneliness and convincing the listener there is really no Need for extravagant joy, she moreover extravagantly and joyfully submerges herself in her own fear fueled psyche, not afraid to touch bottom and making this album a truly wonderful example of autobiographic music making.
Editions:
2016 Original Release
Noisekölln Tapes | NKT-007 | Digital/Cassette
  01. Chased (3:30)
02. The Gap (7:18)
03. S Dream (6:27)
  04. Taped to Heart (4:07)
05. Suspended and Blue (1:32)
06. Drawing Lines (7:39)
  07. Baller (2:25)