Chimerism, by Shadow Pattern

Chimerism

by Shadow Pattern

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1.	First Use 02:20	buy track
2.	Out of Town 02:16	buy track
3.	In the Kitchen 03:22	buy track
4.	In the Basement 06:54	buy track
5.	Found 02:58	buy track
6.	Piss Break 05:41	buy track
7.	Born Twice 04:30	buy track
8.	Rooms 6 03:37	buy track
9.	Triple Entendre 03:45	buy track
10.	Neutral Elbow pt. I 02:58	buy track
11.	Neutral Elbow Pt. II 06:13	buy track
12.	Inside Outside 15:29	buy track
13.	Outside Inside 17:59	buy track
14.	Found Enroute 03:44	buy track
15.	Houses of Aberdeen 08:03	buy track
16.	Your Man Talking 02:40	buy track
17.	Played Attention 05:23	buy track
18.	Sometimes 03:48	buy track
19.	Unknown Jam 24:07	buy track
20.	Here & There 04:58	buy track
21.	Practice Tape II 25:25	buy track

about

Nathan Ivanco’s Shadow Pattern, based in Hamilton, Ontario, is a project for whom the term ‘under-the-radar’ is a cute understatement. Operating with scant regard for the cultivation of listenership or exposure, Ivanco’s work - both as Shadow Pattern and through his Hamilton Tapes label - usually manifests via subterraneously low-key tape editions that rarely if ever make out of his home country of Canada. Typically these releases are procured by direct contact with Ivanco himself and forgo the usual online Noise tape hype cycle. No bandcamp, no webstores, no promo, no bullshit. Lucky for those of us a bit further afield, then, that Ivanco has allowed adhuman to present ‘Chimerism’: a timely gathering of mostly self-released titles circa 2019-2023 in a handy 2xCD primer.

In speaking of Shadow Patterns musical approach one could mention similarities to the mid 00’s era of grimy USA basement noise and home taping, interpreted perhaps by the lo-fi obscurantism of fellow countrymen Korea Undok Group or the equally murky Makade Star outfit. Mangled, stripped-back samples are subjected to the crudest of electronic processing whilst washed-out ambience saturated with tape hiss and eerie recurring motifs gently propel themselves across multiple tracks. Elsewhere more outwardly experimental and freeform works appear in the mix, impressing the idea that these pieces were vehicles to document Ivanco’s ongoing sonic interests as much as eventual committed, final works. Above all, there is quiet sophistication evident in Ivanco’s knack for arrangement and pace evoking the most classical instincts of concrete sound obsession even within such deeply homemade sonic environs.

Presented in free-flowing sequence across both discs, the formerly distinct tracks play out in a longer form which lends new shape and context to the music. Despite sitting firmly in ‘reissue’ territory, ‘Chimerism’ offers a refreshing angle from which to indulge in Shadow Pattern’s rough beauty and may well highlight areas of the project’s vision which have until now gone unnoticed.

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released April 26, 2024

Mastered by Julian Tardo at Church Road Studio

All music originally recorded during 2019-2023 and previously released on Hamilton Tapes and Radiant Clay Records

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