Album numero undici per il musicista/video artist/film maker israeliano Ran Slavin. “Bittersweet Melodies†mette in circolo materiali persi e sparsi composti nell’ultima dozzina di anni, lucidati e rimasterizzati. Una raccolta che nonostante il divario temporale che separa una traccia dall’altra, denota una discreta personalità , non appariscente ma di solida tensione unitaria. Stratificazione di segnali altamente …
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Das nunmehr sechzehnte Album der portugiesischen Klang-Extremisten @C fußt auf Agapornis, einem Stück des Marionettentheaters Porto, das sich 2014 dem Leben und Werk der Anaïs Nin widmete. Man wäre gerne dabei gewesen, das Dreikörperproblem des Albumtitels dürfte also metaphorisch zu verstehen sein. Dabei vollzieht sich das Album auf drei Ebenen: Als Bühnenmusik, als deren Rekomposition …
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Chez Joaquim Vitor, infiniment grand et infiniment petit forment un tout qui aime se conjuguer au pluriel, faisant valser les concepts d’intériorité et de spatialisation, de collage et de de mémoire, pour un assemblage qui voit sa propre histoire fusionner avec celle plus vaste de l’humanité. Les interférences semant le désordre sont agencées de telle …
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Preziosen wie Laurie Anderson, Simon Fischer Turner oder Harald “Sack†Ziegler schmücken Geography (Crónica), das neue Album des portugiesischen Klangeroberers Vitor Joaquim. Und das alles „nur“, um in Folge der Ãœberlegungen des Biogeographen Jared Diamond seinem Wunsch zu entsprechen, sich den Vollzugsweisen der Verortung nähern zu können. Wie zuvor den emotionalen Haushalten (Flow) oder der …
Roha is the first solo album by Andreas Trobollowitsch, ex member of the duo Nörz and Acker Velvet, a musician and Vienna-based composer, performer and sound artist that, in collaboration with David Schweighart, composed the soundtrack for the 1920’s cinema series Digi Wave for the Filmarchiv, Austria. Compared with its past works the free form …
The Portuguese imprint Crónica has become kind of a staple when it comes to releases being reviewed on these pages on a regular and that’s why we are looking forward to embrace Vitor Joaquim’s upcoming album “Geography” that’s scheduled for release on September 13th, 2k16. Vaguely dealing with the concept of how the planets geography …
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For those interested in environmental recordings, the Corollaries series on the Crónica label is a definite must-check. This (sixth) edition in the series is an acoustic exploration of a deserted, metal water tower about four stories high made by soundscape artist John Grzinich. “People are pulled inward upon hearing the depth of the reverberations from …
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Jim Haynes produces sulphureous visions from a peculiar brand of ill-defined concreteness; any hint to humanitarianism is canceled as states of feverish awareness announce terrible things to come. Throttle And Calibration may be born from the processing of hybrid recordings by different collaborators, yet it exudes the toxicity typical of the man’s finest outings. In …
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Met ‘Gamelan Descending a Staircase’ leidt de Litouwse componist en elektronica producer Arturas BumÅ¡teinas ons binnen in de wereld van de gamelan. Het Indonesische slagwerk orkest. Het stuk, op de gelijknamige CD is wel op een heel bijzondere manier ontstaan. BumÅ¡teinas maakte in 2013, samen met Raminta Atnimar opnames van de diverse onderdelen van het …
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Deux pièces, enregistrées à Rotterdam dans l’église des marins norvégiens en 2012, utilisant orgue, guitare em ampli vox. La première, “Ma.Orgâ€, comme son nom l’indique, est une pièce d’orgue, entrons segments. Tout d’abord un continuum, en un long déroulement, jusque’à la moitié. Puis dans la seconde section, des sons de soufflerie, comme des flûtes basses, …
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