“I became interested in the idea that recording is a bottomless medium,” explains multi-instrumentalist Gryphon Rue in the press notes of his new album. “You have a bag that can fit any sound; the room in the bag is limitless.” Indeed, the sounds conjured up by Rue on I Keep My Diamond Necklace in a Pond of Sparkling Water draw from a variety of sources and span multiple genres within the “experimental” umbrella. Rue plays bowed chimes, modular synthesizer, acoustic guitar, Mellotron, bells, and more, but also adds found sounds, animals, and even planetary signals to create a setting that is at once mysterious, soothing, complex, and quirky.
Coming off last year’s 4n_objx, which implemented a more electronic, processed aura,…