“Essays on Radio” reviewed by Bodyspace

O ritual repetia-se ocasionalmente. Quando, aos sábados, as cabeças andavam pelo ar e as garrafas de cerveja tinham já passado à condição de tara perdida, o mais necessitado dos “junkies” de ruído ajoelhava-se perante um rádio Blaupunkt. Entre a testa contra as colunas e uma franja colada ao rosto, procurava pela mais enervante frequência AM …

“Essays on Radio” reviewed by Etherreal

Pour sa 20ème sortie, Cronica propose une compilation conceptuelle. On n’en attendait pas moins de la part du pointu label portugais. Comme le suggère le titre, le concept tourne autour de la radio, thème choisi à l’heure de la multiplication des canaux de diffusion, comme étant le plus ancien medium électronique, le seul dépourvu d’images …

“Essays on Radio” reviewed by Vital

The Portuguese label Crónica is now 2 years old, and they’re celebrating this with a new release which is available as a CD and a DVD. The CD (can’t say much about the DVD) has 39 tracks that are each 2 minutes long. In a time of webcasts and internet-based information traffic it’s a very …

“Essays on Radio” reviewed by Loop

This is the second compilation of this label that already turns two years publishing to artists of the experimental electronic music. Thirty nine are the musicians showing in two minutes time their vision on the radio. This medium in spite of the technological advances that some could foretell a happy end, still prevail as a …

“Essays on Radio” reviewed by Wreck This Mess

Un brouhaha de fréquences. Un concerto d’interférences. Un gargouillis de bruits parasites… Une fois de plus le label portugais Crónica nous livre un étrange document sonore. Une sorte de manifeste audio autour de la radio; comme medium et comme générateur d’onde. Un projet collectif. Forcément collectif. Ainsi que le soulignent les initiateurs de cette anthologie, …

“Happiness Will Befall” reviewed by Noripcord

The sound of Lawrence English’s most recent solo recording is a polar journey between the harsh yet compelling sounds of dedicatedly minimalist computer music and the subtle organicism of post-classical instrumentalists. Another way of expressing this bicephalous creation is to say that his music sounds a lot like ambient works by Aphex Twin, Boards of …

“Essays on Radio” reviewed by Sands Zine

L’etichetta portoghese (o la media label) Crònica, per festeggiare il suo secondo anno di attività, ha deciso di realizzare una doppia uscita in CD e DVD di materiale attinente al medium radiofonico: il media elettronico più antico e nonostante questo ancora presente nella nostra vita di tutti i giorni e ben vivo nel nostro immaginario …

“King Glitch” reviewed by Ox

Wenn wir jetzt schon mal entspannt sind, dann können wir direkt mit einer weiterren Veröffentlichung des portugiesischen Crónica-Label fortfahren. HEIMIR BJÖRGÚLFSSON & JONAS OHLSSAON präsentieren “King Glitch” (Crónica/ A-Musik). Ein Isländer und ein Schwede in Amsterdam. Vornehme, introvertierte und zurückhaltende Minimal-Rhythmik trifft Kranktronixxx. Immer deutlich einen Tick neben der Synchronisations-Spur, gegen optimale Hörgewohnheiten und für …

“Essays on Radio” reviewed by D-Side

Premier moyen de diffusion sonore, la radio, dont la place dans la société actuelle e énormément reculé au profit de médiums plus visuels, a pourtant été, depuis sa création, un outil d’expérimentation extraordinaire, utilisé aussi bien par les surréalistes que par les chercheurs du GRM, par Orson Welles que par John Cage. Paradoxalement régénérée par …

“Essays on Radio” reviewed by Paris Transatlantic

It didn’t take long for the laptoppers to realise that concertgoers quickly get fed up of parting with hard-earned cash in return for having to stare intently at young men and women staring intently at their screens behind those annoyingly unavoidable luminous Apple logos. Unless, that is, you happen to enjoy watching Christian Fennesz smoke …