Becker, Rashad

Becker, Rashad

The Incident

Clunk

Master of the seriously absurd, a mercurial jester of the airbenders, Rashad Becker finally unveils his Clunk label - named after his esteemed mastering studio - opening with his first album of new work in almost a decade. ’The Incident’ is full of devilishly adventurous takes on electro-acoustic systems and displaced imaginary rituals - an absolute must-listen if you’ve a thing for Autechre, Florian Hecker, Dariush Dolat-Shahi, CC Hennix, Parmegiani, Henry Flynt or Harry Partch. As the iconic set of ears behind too many mastering and sound design jobs to count, Rashad Becker has subtly helped re-shape perceptions of electronic and club-based music for nigh-on four decades. His eventual release of original solo music with two volumes of ‘Traditional Music for Notional Species’ for PAN in 2013 + 2016 followed years of revered live and studio practice to generate two of that decade’s definitive experimental sides, both adored and admired for their illusive, psychoacoustic derangements, organised with a noumenal grasp of fictional dynamics which gave his sounds shape and unique properties that have played heavily, weirdly on the mind ever since. It’s not just random noise, dear: Rashad’s music beckons, seduces and prompts the imagination to make great leaps and join dots across epochs and dimensions by twisting myriad traditions, vernaculars and temporalities with a singular storytelling style and logic. Still with us? Good, ‘cos you’re in for a treat with Becker’s keenly awaited new album ‘The Incident’, which instrumentally reflects a ludicrousness of modern life and the overload of...