From the Portuguese Crónica label, there’s the Lithuanian player Gintas K with Lovely Banalities (CRÓNICA ELECTRONICA 040), an appealing collection of minimal electronica; what I like about it is that Gintas keeps most of his pieces quite short (nothing over five minutes), and each one explores a single idea relentlessly, despite temptations to widen out …
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Ification est le plus récent des travaux de Peter Votava / Pure (actif, précisons-le, depuis presque vingt ans et qui a réalisé des albums sur des labels aussi prestigieux que Mego et Staalplaat (et pour mon plaisir, un split avec Ultra Milkmaids)). Globalement, cet album apparaît comme moins aquatique que Noonbugs, sorti sur Mego, plus …
Following many MP3 releases and a double CD on Cronica Electronica before, Gintas K from Lithuania now returns to Cronica with a strange album called ‘Lovely Banalities’. Not that we shouldn’t take this seriously, but ‘banalities’ may sound a bit odd. One windy summer Sunday afternoon, Gintas K went out to do field recordings in …
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Il n’est pas toujours facile de suivre un type comme Peter Votava. Complètement imprévisible on ne sait jamais trop à quoi s’attendre avec lui. Avec Ification, dont le jeu de mot avec Pure n’aura échappé à personne, on aura par conséquent affaire à un album aux multiples visages. Ce n’était nullement obligatoire de sa part …
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Les titres d’albums sont parfois très explicites. Celui-ci l’est complètement. Difficile de faire autrement, d’ailleurs, puisque tout ce qui compose Berlin Backyards est la signification même du titre du disque. En effet, Gilles Aubry, qui habite Berlin depuis 2002, qui est membre des groupes Monno et Swift Machine et dont les enregistrements en solo ont …
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Gilles Aubry est originaire de Suisse et vit à Berlin depuis 2002, où il produit sa musique aussi bien en solo qu’au sein de groupes dans des styles variés, allant du doom metal en tant que Monno (chez Conspiracy Records) aux musiques improvisées avec Swift Machine. En solo il travaille plutôt dans le domaine du …
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Would you believe it? A young Polish artist, previously signed to labels like kool.POP and Cock Rock Disco, utilizes some of Cornelius Cardew’s most private recordings for his solo debut, and seemingly gets away with it too. One wouldn’t have been too surprised if the disc was pushed by Cock Rock’s ‘diva’ herself, Jason Forrest, …
Berlin Backyards finds Swiss sound artists Gilles Aubry building pressing/swirling drones and sound texture sheens from subtle manipulated field recordings sourced from various Berlin backyards over the winter of 2006. He utilises the sound of rubbish truck machinery, road sounds, distant city sound echoes, bird song and chatter, dripping and crunching on concrete, vehicle sound …
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Per il turco Cem Güney un passato come dj e trombettista e un presente come sound-artist dedito a collages elettro-acustici. I due padiglioni auricolari sulla copertina di “Praxisâ€, trafitti da rametti appuntiti e foglie di un verde cupo, illustrano gli stimoli uditivi indotti da queste nove composizioni, persino scontrose ad un primo approccio, ma in …
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Não é criminoso passar ao lado das relações que Cem Güney estabelece entre conceitos diversos e as composições que acabaram por figurar em Praxis, depois de dois anos de gestação. A explanação das relações ocupa toda a porção do press-release, que acompanha o disco lançado há algum tempo pela Crónica (que aposta frequentemente em aventureiros …
