seht - Federacy boot
PseudoArcana CDR, 2006
"Sublime glitchy processed organ, clicks and more from the irrepressible and suddenly everywhere seht. (For those who don't already know seht is Wellington local Stephen Clover who besides being incredibly prolific and consistently great under his seht moniker is also member of The Stumps, The Longshoremen and more..). Constructed of ear-bathing loops, drones and electronic renderings Federacy Boot is weird enough to disturb your dreams and gentle enough to beautify your Sunday mornings. Better than berroca!"
- PseudoArcana website
What they said...
"Seht is one increasingly prolific man from New Zealand called Stephen Clover, who specialises in tweaked-out dronescapes and experiments in layers of manipulated and time-stretched sounds. This is one of his latest, and as good as any of Clover's others. My personal favourite so far is the church organ-driven pileup of "Nova Bonalbo" that came out on musicyourmindwillloveyou a month or two back, but this one's just as worth tracking down. He's also on the Invisible Pyramid box."
- David Stockwell, Diskant website
"Latest cd-r from NZ sound sculptor Stephen Clover otherwise known as Seht. Three tracks, nearly an hour of soft sonic sweetness, warm beds of barely there glitch and click underpin thick rich billowy clouds of cotton candy like organ drones, airy and slowly shifting and overlapping, melodies ghostlike and nearly transparent. Occasionally the organ drifts off leaving a strange hissing minimal fuzz, dense and rife with subtle rhythm and not quite melodies, like some muted guitar riff pulled apart and spread out into a delicate gauze. Or like an alien insect buzzing out some simple message, expressing itself in subtle shades of grey. The final half hour track begins as soft swell of keening high end trill before dispensing with the subtle shadings altogether, allowing the organ to step forward and offer up huge thick swirls of sound, still peppered with subtle glitches and unlikely hiccups and jumpcuts, this is like some epic Charlemagne Palestine jam, but played through a PA with faulty wiring, a stuttery soundscape of warm organ melody and implied rhythmic interference. So cool."
"Another beautifully eerie cd from Stephen Clover: the opener is gorgeous - glitchy organ drones - but as always with Seht, it's the longform tracks that impress, when he has time to weave a thick gloop of oppressive magic. Submerged steel string vibrations and claustrophic submarine drones on "Old Feet pt 2" and a ghostly chorus of whistles that most unexpectedly disappears into mutated church organ."
- Apex-online 'Boa Melody Bar' website
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