{"id":22437,"date":"2026-10-03T13:39:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T13:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/?p=22437"},"modified":"2026-10-03T13:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T13:52:13","slug":"review-by-richard-allen-a-closer-listen-by-rombo-editorial-staff-rombo-magazine-ghostly-waters-david-velez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/?p=22437","title":{"rendered":"Review | By Richard Allen \/ a closer listen & By ROMBO Editorial Staff \/ Rombo Magazine – Ghostly Waters | David Ve\u0301lez"},"content":{"rendered":"

Review | By Richard Allen \/ a closer listen<\/a><\/strong>
\nGhostly Waters<\/a> | David Ve\u0301lez<\/a>
\nDavid V\u00e9lez ~ The River Calder
\nAfter seeing the illustration of a cute but anguished monster, one wants to know more. Lina Velandia\u2018s line drawings grace the release by David V\u00e9lez, an original way to draw us into the story of the River Calder. Two months of recordings have produced three international installations to date, and now these sounds appear on a physical release. The story begins 310 million years ago during the Carboniferous period, as the River Calder was formed. Home to \u201camphibians such as Microsauria, Eryops, Diplocaulus, Labyrinthodontia, and Nectridea,\u201d the basin was a hotbed of biodiversity until a \u201crainforest collapse\u201d marked by a six-degree temperature drop wiped out most of its thriving population. Enter now the \u201cghostly elements\u201d of the river, as captured by V\u00e9lez, and the \u201cgiant amphibian ghosts\u201d drawn by Velandia. These creatures communicate now through the Ghostly Water. The backdrop is black, a reflection of the environment: \u201cblack water, black soil, black boulders,\u201d the product of carbon, coal and iron. Less than a minute in, and already some strange creature is grinding, either a living creature or a fossilized remnant begging to be heard. The white noise behind the drip and flow is similar to that heard in hauntology. But why would the ghosts of the past seek to communicate with us today? Is it simply because their lives were cut short by the rainforest collapse? No, because the area eventually recovered, becoming the main source of water for a series of surrounding farms, only to be devastated once more by a series of sewage leaks. In a short period of time, millennia of progress were dissolved. […<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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Review | By ROMBO Editorial Staff \/ Rombo Magazine<\/a><\/strong>
\nGhostly Waters<\/a> | David Ve\u0301lez<\/a>
\nDavid V\u00e9lez\u2019s \u2018The River Calder\u2019 Gives Voice to an Ancient, Polluted Watershed
\nColombian sound artist David V\u00e9lez spent two months recording England\u2019s River Calder, translating 310 million years of ecological memory\u2014from Carboniferous collapse to modern sewage leaks\u2014into a 70-minute physical release. David V\u00e9lez\u2019s new release does not celebrate the River Calder. It listens to what the water has absorbed: the grind of fossilized remnants, the hiss of coal-dark silt, and the spectral warnings of amphibian life that once thrived here. Built from two months of field recordings\u2014already installed in three international spaces\u2014the work now arrives as a physical document, its cover graced with Lina Velandia\u2019s line drawings of grimacing, powerless creatures. The story starts 310 million years ago, during the Carboniferous period, when the river basin churned with biodiversity. A rainforest collapse, triggered by a six-degree temperature drop, then erased most of that life. Much later, agricultural runoff and sewage leaks did their own damage. V\u00e9lez treats both disruptions as audible layers, threading ancient trauma with present decay. […<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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