Following many MP3 releases and a double CD on Cronica Electronica before, Gintas K from Lithuania now returns to Cronica with a strange album called ‘Lovely Banalities’. Not that we shouldn’t take this seriously, but ‘banalities’ may sound a bit odd. One windy summer Sunday afternoon, Gintas K went out to do field recordings in the city where he lives, Marijampole, which he then transformed into fourteen little sketch like sound pieces. Whatever those field recordings were is hard to say, but they are surely sketch like. Often employing a few sounds per track, set to ‘loop’, he creates a very light album – which is were the ‘banalities’ come in I guess. I wouldn’t say that Gintas K isn’t serious about what he does, I am pretty sure he is serious. But for this occasion he set out to do some nice microsound work which hasn’t have that ultimate serious approach, but nice tinkling cracks ‘n cuts and it’s a rather refined album. Nothing perhaps that we haven’t heard before, but not often in such light hearted way. (FdW)