Pinkcourtesyphone - Shouting at Nuance (2022)

pinkcourtesyphone is the pseudonym for the los angeles based minimalist richard chartier. under this moniker, chartier indulges in an emotional torpor through his hauntological compositions for forgotten dreams with an opiated grandeur and subtle application of certain nostalgic camp.

shouting at nuance was originally published as part of the instantly out of print on corrosion - a 10 cassette anthology from 2019 that was housed in a handcrafted wooden box and featuring full albums from kleistwahr, neutral, pinkcourtesyphone, alice kemp, she spread sorrow, g*park, relay for death, francisco meirino, fossil aerosol mining project, and himukalt. the collection also stood as the 50th release for the helen scarsdale agency, an imprint founded in 2003 and dedicated to post-industrial research, recombinant noise, surrealist demolition, existential vacancy and then some.

here, chartier glances back to some of his earliest obsessions on tapes, mixed or otherwise, bolstering the vinyl edition with complementary material from something you are or something you do, a cassette originally published by the tapeworm, 2017). his search for ghosts on tape sifts through the warbles, clunks, notes, and beats moistened an smudged through a mid-to-late century antiquity that also pilfers from a variety of moldering vhs tapes and miserable cassingles. at the same time, chartier revisits self-purloined pinkcourtesyphone tidbits morsels extracted and re-pulled like a melted sickly sweet taffy into something de-composed and fresh. with allusions to decay as an unrecognizable reconstruction of past works, his ghostly ambience becomes a dub of itself, echoing back a dispersion of drift and drone into a feedback loop of disintegrated memory.