Here we have the work of two renowned musicians from the experimental scene: German Stephan Mathieu [interviewed on loop] and English Janek Schaefer. After sharing bills in several festivals and their common interest on the manipulation of sounds, they decided to work on Hidden Name in a pastoral place in the South of England. Over …
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“Musicamorosa†reviewed by Bodyspace
Por altura de Essays on Radio: Can I Have 2 Minutes of Your Time?, compilação dedicada ao meio radiofónico lançada pela Crónica, bastaram a The Beautiful Schizophonic dois minutos para, através de um conto de fadas urbano, declarar uma sensação de enclausuramento e incapacidade de comunicar verbalmente: assim se sucedeu através do aproveitamento de um …
“The Wayward Regional Transmissions†reviewed by Octopus
Artiste multimédia, touche-à -tout de la création digitale et de l’ouverture acoustique, l’israélien Ran Slavin s’est entouré de ses compatriotes Ahuva Ozeri, joueuse accomplie de bubultarang, sorte de cithare indienne à trois cordes, et Moshe Eliaha, joueur d’oud, pour définir les contours floutés de cet étrange voyage sonore. A la fois épique et évanescent comme une …
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“Hidden Name†reviewed by Cyclic Defrost
Strewn together during a stay at a Manor Farm House in the South of England, Hidden Name invents its own mythic past. Its swooning, woody tones and swathes of haunting, echoing noise wipe away time’s contributions and seek out original memory, a universal stillness, a tantalizing quiver of immobility. Seductive subtleties are present in the …
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“Hidden Name†reviewed by Vital
Ah two busy bees, Janek Schaefer probably more at the forefront than Stephan Mathieu, but both are always to be found somewhere. This is not the first time that they work together. In 2003 they released a work that was made in a hotel room in Montreal, together with Radboud Mens and Timeblind (see Vital …
“The Wayward Regional Transmissions†reviewed by Blow Up
Ran Slavin è un artista multimediale di Tel Aviv che si occupa di musica, cinema, video arte e installazioni; ne ricordiamo un buon CD qualche tempo fa ma ha prodotto soprattutto lavori per performance live e d’arte contemporanea. In “The Wayward Regional Transmissions†presente otto trace in cui media perfettamente estetica avant-glitch e folk mediorientale; …
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“Hidden Name†reviewed by Chain DLK
After meeting at the MUTEK Festival in 2002, sharing the bills on various festivals all over the world and a previous collaborative effort in 2003 along with Radbound Mens and Timeblind (“Quality Hotel” out on the Mutek label), Stephan Mathieu and Janeck Schaefer decided to spend some days together in the home of a classical …
“The Wayward Regional Transmissions†reviewed by Goddeau
Kort na de Tweede Wereldoorlog suste Europa zijn geweten door een opgejaagd volk eindelijk zijn land terug te geven. Dat land, zo liet een oud en heilig boek weten, behoorde hen toe omdat hun God het hen geschonken had. Dat die grond intussen door iemand anders ingenomen was, was niet meer dan een vervelend euvel …
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“The Wayward Regional Transmissions†reviewed by The Wire
Sound/video artist Ran Slavin, an Israeli, uses aerial photography of the Middle East as a visual underpinning to The Wayward Regional Transmissions, which follows last year’s Insomniac City CD + DVD release on Mille Plateaux. Apart from the hint offered in the title “Shelters and Peace”, there is very little sense of the political strife …
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“Hidden Name†reviewed by De-Bug
Aufgenommen wurde diese Zusammenarbeit in dem Landhaus eines englischen Komponisten, der den beiden Musikern auch eine große Sammlung an klassischen und exotischen Musikinstrumenten und Schallplatten zur Verfügung stellte. Zusätzlich machten die beiden Aufnahmen von Soundscapes in der Umgebung. Das Ergebnis ist ein äußerst entspanntes elegisches Album geworden, das mit Drones und Ambiences arbeitet, Klavierminiaturen, konkreten …