Dale Cornong has his own solo project as well as a disc label, and it’s called “The End Of Radio”. His music is made up of field recordings from the Middle East, Africa and South America. He uses field recordings as instruments, which he then plays back to the room and adds a layer of fuzz to it, all to create the sense of a distant drumbeat. The results are not unlike the approach taken by Brazilian musicians who make music using the more exotic and unexpected sources they find.

Cornong is far from new to me, having released a CD on the same label a few years back. Here he is exploring the same territory, though he has no intention to play back some of the sound of the analogue synthesizers he used to make the music. Instead, he uses the field recordings to create a series of seemingly random sounds, gaining more and more interest as the piece unfolds.

Cornong can create a large range of sounds, running from very simple to very complex. It is a fine record that has fine moments of weirdness, but Cornong is not the least bit interested in a precedent for these strange works. He wants to discover the strangeness to himself, to see where he fits in the puzzle he has put together, in a way that is pure and simple. Wonderful work.