Dopo aver di recente (Rockerilla 349) tessuto le lodi di Tomas Bednarczyk, ci trovia- mo a parlare di un altro giovane polacco attivo da qualche anno in contesti di musica di ricerca. Piotr Kurek (1978) omaggia, con un atteggiamento che si colloca a metà strada tra lo spirito di devozione e il rigore filologico, la …
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“Lovely Banalities†reviewed by Neural
There are fourteen different tracks in “Lovely Banalities”, the second release on Crónica for the Lithuanian sound- artist Gintas K. Although there are multiple “field recording” interludes, they result in a rather continuous, and evocative flow of sound. They are made of synthetic articulations, improvised digital digressions, or minimal modulations. Finally, those that are in …
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“Lectures†reviewed by De:Bug
Kammermusikalische Gesten von Holzbläsern, viel Percussion (Gongs), Klaviertupfern, zuweilen elektronischen Klängen und scharfen, dünnen Streichern umstreifen sich, in loopartige, halbimprovisierte Strukturen hinein. Immer wieder ist die Stimme von Cornelius Cardew zu hören, Bandaufnahmen, die dessen Sohn für einen Cardew-Festival-Beitrag zur Verfügung gestellt hat, auf dem diese CD beruht; Vorträge (daher der Titel) und Probenschnipsel, in …
“Erotikon†reviewed by Monsieur Delire
“Erotikon†is a Greek word for “love song.†Jorge Mantas (The Beautiful Schizophonic) holds a highly personal idea of the love song: instrumental, electronic, and ambiant. Oh, and sexy too (no silly sexual sighs, though), and inhabited by an ideation (and idealization?) of women. Sweet, nice music with shimmering textures, seductive ambient electronica. The album …
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“Sleppet†reviewed by Boomkat
Marc Behrens is one of those sound artists who is seldom afforded the level of recognition he deserves, consistently releasing brilliant contemporary musique concrète for well over a decade now via labels such as Trente Oiseaux, Sirr and Raster Noton. This latest release is another stunning collection of digital electroacoustic dissections, offering a portrait of …
“Lectures†reviewed by Monsieur Delire
A strange record, very delicate. At first, it sounds like a lecture with instrumentalists illustrating what the lecturer says – all acoustic. Yes, but, isn’t Polish soundsman Piotr Kurek an electronician? And isn’t Portuguese label Crónica specialized in sound art? Exactly. And Lectures is actually a work made with sounds lifted from recordings by Cornelius …
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“Compilation Works 1996-2005†reviewed by Skug
Eine Art Opus Magnum des deutschen Ultraminimalisten. Die Compilation bringt 19 Stücke als Behrens’ erste VÖ zum Gratis-Download, auf der Crónica-HP gibt es die Möglichkeit, nach freiem Ermessen dafür zu spenden. In einem ähnlichen Klangkosmos wie F. López oder Bernhard Günter unterwegs, sind es bei Behrens die technischen Applikationen selbst, die die von ihm nur …
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“Lectures†reviewed by The Wire
After an opening passage of music, the unmistakable voice of Cornelius Cardew is heard, refined and almost prissy in lecture mode: “I don’t know how many of you are musically educated…” before going on to explain how indeterminacy might be applied in a performance situation, material specified or elided, rules to be followed, broken or …
“Lectures†reviewed by Vital Weekly
The other new CD is an odd-ball, certainly for a label like Cronica Electronica, who deal with laptop music and electronics. I have no clue as to what Piotr Kurek does to generate his music. Sometimes it seems like improvisations on acoustic percussion (such as in ‘Part 1’) but then something like ‘Tripartite’ could very …
“Erotikon†reviewed by Vital Weekly
Jorge Mantas, the man behind The Beautiful Schizophonic, is a romantic man – at least that’s what I think, as I never met him. For the press release he wrote a long text, dealing with erotics – and thus he creates a dreamworld of his own. His music, through the years he’s been active, is …