Calineczka / What Is Music And What Should It Be

As abstract paintings on white gallery walls are nudged from abstraction into another weave of discourse by the presence of a title, so too the worldess drone is rendered a new agency in the bestowal of a name. Here Calineczka (the Spanish based artist and label owner, Michal Stanczyk), plainly puts an otherwise polite and rather humble (in all but duration) drone into a position of opposition and provocation which ultimately helps the mental effect of listening and anticpation of listening. Over two 40 plus-minute sides of refrigerated hum and microbial progression, this cassette release affects a pleasing, arms-folded defiance of inaction and then repeats the feat on side B which is literally the piece played in reverse. It all fascinates in its non effect. As a lure to listening of the deep well variety, it is extremely effective in provoking the best kind of long drone thoughts: "Is this happening on the tape or in my head?"