En terme d’ambient, peu aujourd’hui arrivent à faire évoluer un genre qui semble être rendu à un point de non-retour. Cela n’empêche en rien de voir nombre de disques sortir et qui ont bien souvent cette beauté glaciale et l’imprégnation d’espaces sonores infinis. Stephan Mathieu et Janek Schaefer se sont fait depuis plusieurs années déjà …
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Following his excellent reconstruction of Jewish culture in Cracow and industrial revolution revived in Nowa Huta on “Into The Void”, Ran Slavin continues on his quest in audio-art on his latest release. Moving smack centre into the Middle East region, he brings up ghosts of past and present. Accompanied by a booklet full of detailed …
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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 …
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 …
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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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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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 …
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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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 …
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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