number 1005 --------------------- week 45MICHAEL ESPOSITO & FRANS DE WAARD - PHANTOM PLASTIC (flexi by Korm Plastics) The fact that there is a cheeky flexi frolicking on my record player does not lessen any of the captivating eeriness of this single-tracked spectre. The text «Dreams of the Incorruptibles» I reckon an excerpt of which one can find printed as liner notes on the sleeve, is the eighth part in a series of essays about Electronic Voice Phenomena and elaborately considers the possibility of part of the soul being trapped in a dreaming state inside the body, in case the deceased who are deemed ‘incorruptible’- i.e. the dearly departed whose dead bodies seem to be subject to little or no decomposition. Science is still out on that one, but it is a mysterious background story that colours the experience of the piece of sound art imprinted on this floppy plastic square. The track launches into a collage of noise and click loops scattered across the channels with sudden intermezzos of lo fi-recorded voices, whose merit I imagine must be their phantasmal origin or at least something EVP related. The different phases of the track each have a pleasant way of filling up the audio spectrum with a decent amount of low-end gush that has layers of respiring noise stacked on top of it. Check it out, preferably after dark. (PJN) Address: http://www.discogs.com/artist/1214261-Michael-Esposito