Excellent new concept double album by Janek Schaefer on Crónica. His best to date. 12 commissioned pieces that range from dreamy to truly hairraising. ‘Asleep at the weel…’ is absolutely fabulous. An installation consisting of ghost cars & in-car soundtracks. The 20 minute piece on the album documents the dangers of overconsumption & overuse of …
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Getting up for work before dawn is not really a pleasant experience but with this album as your in-ear companion, you can see things in a slightly different light. Schaefer was conjuring up dazzling minimalist other worlds when the current crop of experimental ambient producers were probably still listening to Blink 182 and failing to …
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Après une petite escapade chez Baskaru (Music For Empty Spaces), le duo @C retourne sur ses terres pour trois nouvelles pièces librement téléchargeables sur le site de Cronica. Trois longues pièces électroniques de plus d’une demi heure chacune. Quant à les expliquer, il faudrait sans doute avoir beaucoup de temps devant soi. Pour autant et …
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Alors que usure.paysage n’a pas fini de nous hanter, il n’est pas inutile de revenir sur un disque un peu plus ancien sorti l’année dernière sur Cronica (label ô combien connu et estimé en ces colonnes). Enregistré entre 2008 et 2010, Strings.Lines a été réalisé avec l’aide de Pierre-Yves Martel à la viol de gambe …
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The latest project of @C, Homem Fantasma, consists of three pieces, each about 40 minutes long. This is electronic music made with studio and field recordings, electronic instruments and digital processing. Result: three beautiful soundscapes. These recordings confront me with a challenge. As known, it is not easy to describe soundscapes. In this case it …
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In other reviews, I have already written that in the creation and perception of soundscapes, the step to video art or other visual art is not that big. This has to do with the intangible, sometimes the ethereal, often the captivating effect of music. This could be called the musical power of abstraction. Music is …
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Mosaique is Jan Ferreiras a Portuguese musician and on this album he is exploring areas new to him. To quote his own words….. “In this release I worked for the first time with analogue synthesis. It was new territory so I spent long time exploring timbres and textures and what especially drew my attention was …
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Miguel Carvalhais and Pedro Tudela are @C, an experimental duo from Portugal who, in the ten years they have been working together, have released works on a variety of labels and created a number of pieces for audio-visual installations and videos. Their latest venture, Homem Fantasma, which translates as Human Ghost, consists of three pieces, …
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Und plötzlich war da diese Stimmgabel. Nicolas konnte nicht aufhören den ganzen Tag daran zu denken. “Dieser Ton!”, dachte er immer wieder. Er besorgte sich noch eine. Und noch eine. Und wieder eine. Irgendwann war er völlig besessen. Er fand zwei Musiker, den Violonisten Chris Bartos, und Pierre-Yves Martel für die Viola da Gamba, und …
