UNDO

For more information: Aston Martini / UNDO unstrungone @ yahoo. com UNDO releases first of two CD set – "UN" Featuring seven instrumental ambient tracks recorded live Boston, MA. – June 2000 – UNDO, a Boston-based ambient musical unit, has released the first disc of a two-CD set summarizing its recordings from 1996-1997. "Like all music, UNDO follows a creative process that follows impulses and ideas," says David Kirkdorffer, who is the sole member of the outfit and plays what he describes as "unguitar." Kirkdorffer explains, "What I do with UNDO is pretty much what everyone who plays an instrument aims for, get sounds I like and make them into something that makes me go 'Yeah!' On these recordings I use technology to allow real-time multi-layering of sounds, so I can add layers while playing live. Essentially, I'm improvising, multi-tracking ideas, and sculpting a shape to things all at once, live. So what does UNDO sound like? These instrumental tracks range from a blast of sound on "Intro" to the melodic, emotional and unearthly on "Poseidon & Aphrodite". To some, they are eerie; to others, they are poignant. "I hope people can bring their own feelings to this music. I think it's very visual. So, I hope everyone can have their own movie playing in their head. While sounding like lush space-age music for the New Millennium, "UN" was recorded live using decidedly anachronistic equipment – an old stereo Realistic microphone and a Realistic cassette player. "You could say I recorded in Tandyphonics," jokes Kirkdorffer, at once alluding to Tandy, the parent company to Realistic, and to Robert Fripp's Frippertronic 70's looping process. But while the process Fripp and Kirkdorffer use may be somewhat similar, the result is very different. And the paradoxically hi-tech HDCD mastering by Jeff Lipton from Peerless Mastering produces a very sumptuous and vibrant quality to the disc. And what is "unguitar?" "With UNDO I play guitar, but I'm striving to not sound like a guitar. So, I'm using all sorts of little pedals and delays to make very un-guitar-like sounds – hence the name which I've used since 1990 to describe this 'style' of my guitar playing." Indeed, the disc is filled with different textures, all adding up to a rather interesting and emotionally evocative whole. Where other ambient releases may suffer from being too "introspective", UNDO has melodies and feelings that help 'UN' to successfully avoid this trap. "DEUX," the second in UNDO's two-CD set, is ready for release but is held up by Kirkdorffer's record label, UNDOMUSIC, which is disputing royalties and ownership privileges.