the penultimate issue of raster-noton’s unun series features »gomila park«, a new project by the two swedish musicians martin rössel and carl michael von hausswolff that started in spring 2013 in palma de mallorca.
on their first ep released as a duo, they present three rather unconventional and diverse tracks. »leibniz«, for example, is characterized by a heavy rock attitude with lots of distortion and screaming guitar riffs. the b-side on the other hand, including the tracks »calculus« and »ramon llull«, is the more experimental part.
considering only the track titles, »gomila park« is a homage to two of the first mathematicians and philosophers that helped developing the binary system and, generally speaking, the digital world.
but despite all that, »gomila park« is also a matured piece of work that was held in trust for at least two years. it’s once more an inspection of a fundamental possibility of music, a reference to the past. similar to mika vainio’s »vandal« ep, »gomila park« echoes the tradition of rock music and is thus the counterpart of a younger, historically unburdened generation of producers like ueno masaaki or kyoka.
