Neighborhood (from Corps Exquis) (2012)

Neighborhood, also sizable in sonic scope, adds the extra hands of So Percussion into the mix to conjure a radiant sense of sun-on-your-face pleasure.

…Neighborhood churns together little bits of composer and performer Aaron Roche's processed voice with furious scribbles of tremolo'd string, a waveform that Wohl snags with his software and distends, so that we no longer picture human arms generating the sound. There are an abundance of other noises here, too, all of them of hazy origin — some percussive clicks, some radiant, soft-edged keyboard arpeggios, a shimmer effect that resembles locusts or a lawn sprinkler. There is some groaning, burping electronic noise in the music's low end that could be a groaning double bass or electronics. This zone of confusion, between the digital glitch and bow-on-string screech, is where Wohl lives, and Corps Exquis gets more interesting the more confused you get.

The album's pulsating opener Neighborhood finds So Percussion and Aaron Roche adding to its percussive sound-world and in so doing weaving into the vibrant track textures reminiscent of the kind heard in Chinese opera; also boosting the material's euphoric swirl are TRANSIT's strings and Wohl's organ playing.