“Lovely Banalities” reviewed by The Sound Projector

From the Portuguese Crónica label, there’s the Lithuanian player Gintas K with Lovely Banalities (CRÓNICA ELECTRONICA 040), an appealing collection of minimal electronica; what I like about it is that Gintas keeps most of his pieces quite short (nothing over five minutes), and each one explores a single idea relentlessly, despite temptations to widen out …

“Lovely Banalities” reviewed by Vital Weekly

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 …

Gintas K live at the Ground Zero festival in Vilnius

Ground Zero is a centre of explosion, and explosion is an effective evening of a well-forgotten day, an unthought idea, an unfulfilled (war) promise, a sound wave that surpassed its own frequency. The 13th block of the former factory on Å evčenkos street, the covert birthplace of some of the most advanced radio devices of the …

“Lovely Banalities” reviewed by ORE

Å iais metais pasirodÄ— jau deÅ¡imtasis Ginto K albumas pavadinimu Lovely Banalities. Šį kartÄ…, kaip beveik visuomet, Ginto albumas nebuvo iÅ¡leistas Lietuvos leidybinÄ—je kompanijoje, bet portugalų Crónica. Vietiniai lietuvių garso menininkai kuria įdomius kÅ«rinius, tačiau iÅ¡leisti praktiÅ¡kai nÄ—ra kam. GalbÅ«t tai ir jokia problema, mat interneto pasaulyje geografinÄ— padÄ—tis vis rečiau kÄ… nors lemia, svarbiausia – …

“Lovely Banalities” reviewed by Tokafi

“Lovely Banalities” is the second Gintas K-CD released by “Cronica Electronica”. Both collaborations of this Lithuanian sound artist and the Portuguese label specialising in electronic music seem to foster fascinating outcomes that are real discoveries for admirers of digital music rooted in various branches of microsound. This time, it is an album intended for careful …