Afinal a banda sonora de Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou , o filme de Wes Anderson, estava escondida. Aquelas canções do Bowie pelo Seu Jorge foram uma medida de recurso. O projecto inicial é este, seguramente recusado por excesso de excessos – o que até se compreende. King Glitch faz o compromisso entre a serenidade …
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“Happiness Will Befall†reviewed by Aaren / Eesti Ekspress
Drone, ambient, saladuslik mulin jm. Hõre, akromaatiline ambient. Midagi ei toimu. Vähehaaval võtab kompositsioon end kokku ja suundub kuhugi, lugu (“Adrift”) tiheneb ja lõpeb sama kohatult, nagu oli alanudki. Edasi näitab English meile oma salapärasemat palet – tihedaid meloodilisi tolmuseid ülestikku laotud drone-puuriitasid (“Two Weeks…”). Siis ta jälle eksleb häirivalt kõrgeisse registreisse, kuigi stiil jääb …
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“Happiness Will Befall†reviewed by Liability
Avoir entre les mains le disque d’un type qui aura fréquenté des gens comme David Toop, Oren Ambarchi, Scanner, Philip Samartzis ou encore Janek Schaefer pourrait être, à priori, considéré comme un immense honneur. Au pire on saura à peu près à quoi s’attendre. De plus, sachant que le disque sort chez Cronica le doute …
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“Essays on Radio†reviewed by Black
Auf eine stolze Bilanz von 19 Releases in zwei Jahren kann das portugiesische Label Cronica Electronica blicken. Grund genug, um dieses Jubiläum mit einer CD- sowie einer DVD- Compilation zu würdigen. Obwohl bei vielen der Cronica Releases auch die visuelle Seite (sei es durch Layout oder Videos auf dem Datentrack) eine wichtige Rolle spielt, wird …
“King Glitch†reviewed by Liability
Le media-label Cronica ne finira sans doute jamais de nous étonner. Alors qu’il nous avait habitué à des disques difficiles d’accès, dont les plus extrêmes sont assurément ceux d’Autodigest, voilà qu’ils sortent un disque plus « grand public ». On aura décidément tout vu. Même si ce disque apparaît comme plus ouvert il s’adresse tout …
“Happiness Will Befall†reviewed by Modisti
Basic colours for large format canvases filtering the light of an slow experimental abstract contemplation. The natural flow, progressively overtaking one another is viewed in its swaying, pivotal movements, with electronic sound masses coming in and out of phase as the electronic veils alternate the nature of their opacity.
“Happiness Will Befall†reviewed by The Wire
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but in the right hands, ambient music can reach an even higher plane of communication. The latest recording from Australian electronic composer Lawrence English provides proof: Though he recorded most of it during a summer spent trekking between New Zealand, Singapore, South India and his home in …
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“King Glitch†reviewed by Kathodik
Un miscuglio di ritmi e di sonorità elettroniche un po’ anni 80, un po’ drum’n’bass, un po’ambient. Tutto sapientemente mixato e prodotto dal duo (non potete darvi un nome?) che vedete sopra nomato. Uso massivo di effetti sporchi e di suoni à la Aphex Twin e Raster Noton, qualche puntatina su sample retrogiocattolosi (tipo C64) …
“King Glitch†reviewed by All About Jazz
Sempre a cura della Cronica, l’islandese Heimir Bjorgulfsson e lo svedese Jonas Ohlsson, entrambi residenti ad Amsterdam, firmano con King Glitch un’opera godibile e varia, condita da lieve ironia e sostenuta da un uso abbastanza ingegnoso e creativo dell’elettronica. Nei loro collages di frammenti i due scandinavi assemblano gli elementi piu’ disparati: richiami ad esperienze …
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“Product 05†reviewed by Stillborn
Il nuovo Product (il numero 5) della portoghese Crónica vede coinvolti Freiband e Boca Raton.. il primo non è altro che il nuovo progetto di Frans De Waard (Kapotte Muziek, Beequeen, Goem, etc..) il secondo è un progetto nato nel ’99 dalla mente del più giovane e meno conosciuto Martijn Tellinga. Il contenuto di questo …