On Hands

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“On Hands, recorded between 2005 and 2007, Malaysian sound artist Goh Lee Kwang’s instrument of choice is an old Roland Jupiter analogue synth, but toy keyboards, saxophones, bass and drums also thrown into the pot and merrily melted down by Max/MSP. Steering carefully between the unbridled hedonism of vintage synth outing – Pauline Oliveros’s early work comes to mind – and there ecstatic noodling of latter-day neo-psychedelia, the opening “Godot Is Coming I” revels in primitive awfulness of the instrument, mercilessly exploiting its wayward intonation, farty parps, loopy swoops like childlike glee. Electronic music hasn’t been this much fun since Vernon Elliott’s inspired doodling in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop for Oliver Postgate’s Clangers. But it’s not all fun and games: the ominous thudding percussion of Ex “Hands III” is intercut with thunderous woofer-unfriendly rumbles and high register shrieks worthy of Kevin Drumm.” (The Wire)