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Ilia Belorukov’s “Scattered Underfoot” reviewed by Blow Up
New release: Ilia Belorukov’s “Scattered Underfoot”
Crónica starts the year in the best possible way, presenting the first release by Ilia Belorukov in the label. Ilia Belorukov is a musician from Saint Petersburg, Russia. He works in the directions of improvised, noise and electroacoustic music, collaborating with local and foreign musicians and performers. Ilia practices an experimental approach to sound extraction …
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Ilia Belorukov’s “Scattered Underfoot” reviewed by Musique Machine
While the pandemic of 2020 changed the lives of everyone on our Earth, many artists used this period of tumult and isolation to create and dive deeper into their psyches to represent this unease and fear as gorgeous pieces of art. Ilia Belorukov is no exception, and he took his normal, home composing routine and …
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Ilia Belorukov’s “Scattered Underfoot” reviewed by African Paper
Der in St. Petersburg lebende Klangbastler und Mehrfachinstrumentalist Ilia Belorukov bringt soeben sein neues Langspieltape mit vier zu Beginn der Pandemie produzierten Stücken heraus. Das Album entstand auf der Basis u.a. von diversen modularen Gerätschaften, Akustikgitarre, Becken, Drums und Drummachines, auch Feldaufnahmen und zweckentfremdete Objekte kamen zum Einsatz. Das Tape erscheint am 10. Januar bei …
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New release: @c’s “Installations: S(o)al (2021)”
During the twenty-plus years of their collaboration as @c, Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais’s work spanned composition and performance but also, and prominently, several installations, often site-specific and ephemeral works that have at most been documented with short videos. This series of releases in Crónica is dedicated to revisiting and documenting these installation works, not only …
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Sun Dog’s “Col des Tempètes” reviewed by Silence and Sound
A peine s’est on remis d’Echoplasme, qu’eRikm (électronique) nous propose un nouveau projet tout aussi envoûtant et singulier, aux cotés d’Isabelle Duthoit (voix). Avec Col des Tempètes, le duo dessine des paysages surnaturels, habités par une faune aux faux-semblants familiers et d’êtres fantômatiques à la présence inquiétante. C’est par touches que Sun Dog nous fait …
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Budhaditya Chattopadhyay’s “Withering Field” reviewed by Blow Up
New release: André Gonçalves + Angélica Salvi’s “As Things Flow (for Waters’ Witness)”
Artist and electro-acoustic composer Tarek Atoui (Beirut, Lebanon, 1980) works on large-scale compositions that stem from anthropological, ethnological, musicological, and technical research. His exhibitions weave installations, performances, and education, in processes that move away from the conventional notion of performance, both for the performer and the audience, and that suggest forms of visual, aural, tactile, and somatic …