Orikabe- from the Japanese words "ori" meaning "folding" and "kabe" meaning "wall."- offers up two eight-to-ten minutes example of lowercased noise wall/ lowercased textured noise. This is the first release from Keller’s new label Tatô- the focuses of the label is to put out releases in the lowercase/ quite sound art genre, with all of the releases appearing in paper origami pouches. For this release we find the CDR presented in an octagon-shaped pull out sleeve- this features tight & busy black ink squiggles on both it’s back & front. Then inside the pouch, we get two inlay papers- one with the releases detail, and another with more tight ink squiggles.

PTRKLLR has been active since 2017, putting out five release thus far. So not the most prolific of projects, but with each of his presently seven active projects- PTRKLLR ,Bacillus, Condo Horro, Dirac Sea, Geißt, Kōan-Din, & Unser Verhängnis- Keller always spends a lot of time, effort, & thought into his released work- so whenever you pick-up  anything with his name on you are guaranteed for creative & thoughtful Soundworks/ noise.

The source material for these two tracks where recordings of envelops been folded- these have been minimally layered, but largely left raw and unprocessed- so as the subtle sound details & textural nuances can be fully heard.

First up we have the ten minute nineteen seconds of “Days In Creased”- this is built of detailed, at points almost labyrinth blend of slow considered folds, more rapid creasing, & draged out slides. Keller skillfully moves the sound picture from two or three layers, up to four upwards- with the pace moving from mixes of rapid & more careful, to detailed & all-round pacier. At points the track takes a darting, snaping & twist quilty- and at times this almost becomes semi rhythmic in its feel. It’s a wonderful controlled and at points fairly dizzying example of low case wall craft.

Next & finally we have the just under nine minutes of “A Blank Page Holds All Thoughts”- here the pace is rather manic & rapid from the outset, as Keller brings together three or four layers of quick slicings, busy folds, and almost twitching ‘n’ snapping tonality. This track really ups the head-spinning & busy quilty of the material- and it  does feel like oneself is been folded into smaller & smaller size- most effective & heady stuff.

Orikabe is another worthy & intriguing journey into textured sound from Keller. So if you enjoy lower case or detailed textured noise you’ll be needing to pick this–up, it’s also well worth checking out the other two release on Tatô too- so head here to find out more.