Another fresh one from the Portuguese Cronica imprint is “Three-Body Problem”, the sixteenth – sic! – full-length album composed by @c which is based on the music the duo of Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais composed for the puppet theatre play “Agapornis” back in 2014. Whilst track “Transcendence 115” has already been introduced a few …
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Wat het is, is het. Weinig meer moet dat zijn voor Andreas Trobollowitsch. Zijn gevonden geluiden worden nauwelijks door de mangel gehaald. Hij componeert en improviseert ze tot narratieven waarin een organische verteltrant afgewisseld wordt met druk hak-op-de-tak-gekakel van een warhoofd. ROHA richt de oren echter vooral naar het grote talent van Trobollowitsch om het …
‘Three Body Problem’ is the 16th album from this duo; and their longevity has to be commended, considering the obscurity of their releases. Like their previous release ‘Ab Ovo’, this latest output started as music formulated for a puppet theatre play ‘Agapornis’. This however, was recomposed after the event and is now its own soundtrack. …
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The field of electroacoustic music has its fair share of garbage, as it does those that are truly inspirational; Andreas Trobollowitsch sits pointing towards the former, just left of the middle ground. Processing acoustic instrumentation with electronics is an art in itself, if the producer is to create anything of actual value; and when Andreas …
Slavin returns with his 11th studio album, fixated with Crime time ambient poster sunsets and middle-eastern noire; opening up with Saturday’s Dress’, awash with ambient sub-textures and wiry electronic low-fi scratches. The lounge electronica of ‘Category: Murder Entertainers’ sets the scene for the rest of the album. With stop/start loops and a nostalgic veil over …
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Put on the circuit only recently via the Portuguese Cronica-imprint is “Bittersweet Melodies”, the most recent album effort by Ran Slavin who has released a string of numerous releases on labels like Earsay, Sub Rosa, Mille Plateaux and of course Cronica since the late 90s. With his eleventh longplay effort we see the artist, who’s …
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Andreas Trobollowitsch konnte einem schon zu Ohren kommen zusammen mit Johannes Trödel als Nörz und deren “(Also Known As) Acker Velvet†(Schramm, 2009) und als Acker Velvet mit “Carbon & Chairs†(Monotype, 2012). In erstem Fall wurde als sein Instrumentarium Tape, Electric Guitar, Electric Bass, Melodica [Prepared] uns Electronics [Inside Radio, Feedback] gennant. Das ist …
Sehr schön umraunt Jim Haynes, der ja auf Helen Scarsdale Agency Simon Whetham’s “From The Mouths of Clay†(2014) herausgebracht hat, mit “loom… unease… carcinogenic… confusion†die unheimliche Suggestivität, mit der der Brite sich dem Unbekannten annähert. Ausgerechnet in Kristiansand fand Whetham im Herbst 2013 die Sounds, aus denen er Against Nature konstruierte. Er bezieht …
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Last noted the Lithuanian composer Arturas BumÅ¡teinas in 2014 with his Epiloghi, an ingenious construct which made connections between theatrical sound-effect making machines and the work of the Italian Futurists. His new release likewise confirms that he’s visually literate and informed about the history of art; it’s called Gamelan Descending A Staircase (CRÓNICA 100-2015). He …
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Ran Slavin, artista multimediale israeliano, ha una carriera lunga e variegata alle spalle che lo ha portato a presentare il propri lavori nei quattro angoli del mondo, allacciando collaborazioni di tutto rispetto con altri artisti e produttori ed etichette discografiche. Dopo la pubblicazione della bellezza di undici album, uno dei capitoli fin´ora inediti del suo …
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