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 …
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“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, …
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“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 …
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“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 …
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“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 …
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“Essays on Radio†reviewed by Liability
Si ce n’est pas la première fois que le label portugais Cronica succombe à l’appel de la compilation, ce sera ici un peu plus qu’un catalogue regroupant les artistes de la structure. Chez Cronica on aime bien les concepts et ce disque en sera un de plus à mettre à l’actif du label-média. L’idée de …
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“Essays on Radio†reviewed by Touching Extremes
The landscape drawn by 39 sound artists working around the radio theme – not necessarily with radio sounds, even if most tracks use them – is one of nebulous and functional extravagance; shortwaves and speech snippets but also electronic currents, concise statements and luminescent memories find their place in compositions of (maximum) 2 minutes length …
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