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“The Mediterranean Drift” reviewed by Blow Up

Pronunciata essenza acustica, a dispetto del gran lavorio digitale, pure per l’album dell’israeliano Ran Slavin scaricabile gratuitamente dal sito della Crónica. Prima sezione d’impianto nostalgico e meditativo, vieppiù pervasa da un forte senso di allagamento, di quieto rimestare di acque, seconda leggermente più ostica, assaltata dall’infernale paesaggio marittimo di Vernet in copertina quale esplicito riferimento …

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“The Mediterranean Drift” reviewed by Cyclic Defrost

Ran Slavin, ‘Film Maker / Artist / Director-Writer / Sound Producer’, rhymes with Dan Flavin, the late American neon minimalist, but there the similarities end, at least as concerns his latest album, the free-to-download The Mediterranean Drift on the criminally underrated Cronica label. Based partly around the threat and turmoil of the present day middle …

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“Passeports” reviewed by Ondarock

Dopo le “Parcelles”, il francese Mathias Delplanque estremizza la sua tecnica mista di field recordings “narrativi” e ambient digitale nei “Passeports”, un’eccezionale prosecuzione post-cosmica degli “Airports” di Brian Eno. Il primo “Passeport” calibra il tono delle sue “cosmicomiche”. Una scenografia sia subliminale che ipnotica (o, meglio ancora, onirica) espone con coerenza le possibilità liriche della …

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“The Mediterranean Drift” reviewed by Terz

Slavin, seit über 15 Jahren auch ein umtriebiger Klangaktivist, ist u. a. bekannt für seine (alp)traumhaften Erzählungen zwischen der fernen Vergangenheit und der nahen Zukunft. Sein aktuelles Album, über Crónicaelectronica.org als free download erhältlich – Spenden werden natürlich gerne genommen -, ist wie geschaffen für eine politische Metapher für die Gegenwart. Unplakativ, unsloganhaft und indirekt, …

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“Passeports” reviewed by Blow Up

Molti sono i punti a favore de Mathias Delplanque all’analisi ravvicinata del sua nuovo album “Passeports”. Innanzittuo l’autore francese appare assai abile nella documentazione e nell’elaborazione dei materiali che costituiscono la struttura portante per i sette segmenti dell’album (si tratta di registrazioni sul campo relative all’ambito del trasporto: stazioni, porti, parcheggi e altre zone di …

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“Crónica L” reviewed by Loop

Este compilado celebra la edición número 50 del sello de Porto, Portugal, dirigido por Miguel Carvalhais and Pedro Tudela, quienes invitaron a 18 artistas del sello para que colaboraran entre ellos porduciendo nueve temas. La primera pista es por el italiano Enrico Coniglio y el artista sonoro británico Janek Shaefer que es una pieza de …

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“Crónica L” reviewed by Textura

Crónica celebrates its fiftieth release with a compilation featuring nine collaborations by Stephan Mathieu, Janek Schaefer, Lawrence English, Marc Behrens, Stephen Vitiello, Tu M’, and others. Crónica L’s material is emblematic of the type of bold experimentalism the label has remained faithful to since its inception more than seven years ago. It’s an hour of …

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“Lectures” reviewed by MII

Piotr Kurek – poÅ‚owa breakcore’owej formacji Åšlepcy, znanej w drugiej poÅ‚owie lat 90.ukazuje na tej pÅ‚ycie swoje inne oblicze. Od października do grudnia 2007 r.odbywaÅ‚ siÄ™ w Warszawie festiwal Zakrzywienia IgÅ‚y, skÅ‚adajÄ…cy siÄ™ z trzech osobnych bloków. Jeden z nich byÅ‚ poÅ›wiÄ™cony twórczoÅ›ci Corneliusa Cardew -asystenta Stockhausena, zaÅ‚ożyciela AMM i Scratch Orchestra, klasyka notacji graficznych …

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“Crónica L” reviewed by Monsieur Délire

The Portugese label Crónica is celebrating its 50th release with a beautiful compilation album. Nine collaborations between 18 of the label’s key artists, 18 artists all illustrating in their own way the label’s aesthetics of sound experimentation and redefinition of the act of listening. I would point out the collaborations between Gilles Aubry and Paulo …

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“The Mediterranean Drift” reviewed by Le Son du Grisli

Et une excellente sortie chez Crónica, une – et que vivent les bonnes habitudes ! Issue des pensées – très – inspirées de l’Israélien Ran Slavin, The Mediterranian Drift évoque en deux fois trois mouvements les tourments du Moyen Orient, symbolisés dans le superbe tableau du peintre français Claude-Joseph Vernet Le Naufrage (visible sur la …

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