Sechseinhalb Jahre nach seiner letzten Solo-CD kommt etwas neues von Pure. Ification präsentiert sieben recht unterschiedliche Tracks, die wesentlich von der Beteiligung anderer Musiker leben. So arbeitet der Eröffnungstrack “Fire” mit einem Gitarrenriff von Digital Hardcores Christoph de Babalon, “Sonomatropoeia” fußt auf dem Gesang von Metal-Sängerin Alexandra von Bolzn (Kimusawea, Bolz’n), bei zwei Titeln trommelt …
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“Ification†reviewed by Sonic Seducer
Wieder mit allerlei Gästen unterwegs ist Pure, und der Name war selten derartig Programm wie im Opener “Fire”, der gemeinsam mit Christoph de Babalon entstand. De Babalon ist nicht der einzige alte Bekannte, mit dem es ein Wiedersehen auf”Ification” gibt. Martin Brandlmayr (Radian, Trapist) setzt sich für zwei Nummern hinters Drumkit und Alexandra von Bolzn …
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“Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top, Bottom†reviewed by Liability
Alors que nous avions laissé Miguel Carvalhais et Pedro Tedula (aka @C) sur une belle collaboration en début d’année avec Vitor Joaquim sur le label Feld, les revoilà de retour au bercail pour un nouvel album qui s’annonce aussi sobre et mystérieux que sa pochette. En fait @C est assez fidèle à lui même. On …
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“Praxis†reviewed by Paris Transatlantic
Previously unknown to yours truly, Cem Güney tackles several aspects of computer music with the right amount of profundity, the fragmentary nature of Praxis revealing itself as a value rather than a defect. In the press release the Turkish composer tries to focus our attention on the meditative qualities of certain kinds of sound by …
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“Digital Sound Drawings†reviewed by soundproector
Stunning net release by the Portuguese label Crónica is the result of musician/designer from Denmark Morten Riis’s creative work. His album Digital Sound Drawings is a real finding for people who are fond of phenomenon in electronic music which is accepted to be called ‘glitch’. As Riis himself admitted, he is not interested in creating …
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“Ification†reviewed by Earlabs
Pure is Austrian born and Berlin based Peter Votava, who stepped into the music business somewhere in the beginning of the nineties. Since then, he has released many CD’s and 12†vinyls – his roots actually lie in DJ culture and as such he has established himself already in the hardcore/techno scene. In the mid …
“Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top, Bottom†reviewed by Liability
Alors que nous avions laissé Miguel Carvalhais et Pedro Tedula (aka @C) sur une belle collaboration en début d’année avec Vitor Joaquim sur le label Feld, les revoilà de retour au bercail pour un nouvel album qui s’annonce aussi sobre et mystérieux que sa pochette. En fait @C est assez fidèle à lui même. On …
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“Ification†reviewed by The Sound Projector
Veteran electronicist Pure is someone I associate with the Mego label, but his new release Ification is out on the Portuguese label Crónica. As far as I can make out, he hasn’t played a note of music himself but recruited various fine European avant musicians to contribute samples of their instruments, which he has proceeded …
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“Lovely Banalities†reviewed by Boomkat
Lithuanian sound artist and composer Gintas K returns to Cronica with a selection of self-confessed Lovely Banalities – a set of beautiful auditory trifles, often rather short and lacking in any defined sense of structure. These are more like objects, loitering around in the ether and establishing loop-based sequences like ‘Q’ or the strange and …
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“Praxis†reviewed by Neural (english edition)
With sudden audio constructions, electro-acoustic and microsound influences, the Turkish multi-instrumentalist Cem Güney (who can boast past experiences as DJ and trumpet player) gives birth to a fascinating sequence of synthetic sounds and field recordings for the Portuguese experimental label Crónica. Compositions orbiting around an authorial attention focused on the perception of fragments, in forms …
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