There’s an interesting back-story to this release. The eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland, which resulted in the grounding of many European flights for a week in April 2010 saw Simon Whetham grounded in Lisbon. Effectively marooned, Whetham took his sound gear round the city and captured a vast array of material from field …
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The nocturnal drone, which gradually creeps in listener’s eardrum by arousing all sensory particles, in the initial somehow bipolar long-lasting suite “Maybe Rise”, derived from sonic material grabbed in the coastal rainforest, table lands and outback of Tropical North Queensland, Australia, in July 2011, and cobbled in Spring 2012, makes a move of this mindblowing …
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(A personal review from John Dombroskij to Simon Whetham, published with John’s kind permission) I listened to your album – Never So Alone – a lot. And it is, of course, brilliant. I feel the energy you put into it – And I’m beginning to empathize with what might have been behind your title choices …
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Ca faisait longtemps qu’on avait plus eu de nouvelles ni de Crónica, ni de Marc Behrens. Et dans les deux cas, ça nous a méchamment manqué. Crónica parce que c’est l’un des dix meilleurs pourvoyeurs de sound-design, et Marc Behrens parce que son Sleppet (également sur Crónica) nous avait mis un grand coup de latte …
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J’aperçois bientôt le ciel vomir la pluie, entre deux sifflements écrasants et sourds. Où suis-je encore ? Le ventre imposant d’un avion me répond à son passage : un terrain vague près d’une grille, au bout d’une piste bitumée. Un aéroport. Et cette douleur terrible qui prend au visage alors que le gravier me parcourt …
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A hotel in ruins, burdened with memories and environments evocative of fascinating decadence. Here are spaces that became uninhabitable, now only remotely reminiscent of the splendour of the 60s through 80s, during which period the tourist industry embraced an approach that leaned on a depersonalized and “modernist†sensibility. The location is, however, more than just …
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I’m pretty sure that the great majority of people, who experienced jams when the soot from the notorious elfin barbecue inside Icelandic volcano with unpronounceable name Eyjafjallajökull in February and March 2010, countered with a fine selection of cuss words and complaints against powerless air company’s ground crews and imaginary underground deities or devils, who …
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Hace tiempo que no escuchábamos un larga duración de Marc Behrens, asà que estamos expectantes. “Queendom Maybe Rise” es un disco de dos piezas, una lo suficiente larga para ser un álbum en sà mismo y que responde a la segunda parte de su tÃtulo: “Maybe Rise” y una segunda pieza menor, “Queendom”, cuya naturaleza …
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Toujours du côté de Porto et de Lisbonne, SIMON WHETHAM a un jour profité des effets secondaires (un vol annulé) du volcan islandais en éruption pour se balader dans la capitale portugaise et ses alentours – ça se nomme ‘Never So Alone’. De retour à la maison, il a intégré ses field recordings dans un …
Au départ du projet QUARZ, on trouve Alexandr Vatagin, musicien autrichien actif dans les projets Tupolez et Port-Royal. Aujourd’hui rejoint par Nicolas Bernier, Stefan Németh (alias M. Radian et M. Lokai), sans compter les autres compagnons d’aventure, notre homme dévoile au long des 34 minutes de ‘Five Years On Cold Asphalt’une très belle unité de …
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