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Es ist schon erstaunlich, woher ein knapp über 30-jähriger eine solche kompositorische Reife hernimmt. Praxis geht von etwas verschwurbelten Yoga-Fragestellungen aus und verfolgt die Suche nach der ultimativen Herkunft von Sound. Verschiedene Orte werden imaginär aufgesucht, als Möglichkeiten beleuchtet und dann doch zumeist wieder verworfen. Praxis sucht diese Orte auf mit knisternder Brillanz, mit knacksenden Digitalrülpsern und einer dem Jazz verwandten Experessivität. Tolles Album! (Zipo)

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This debut album by a producer and multi-instrumentalist from Izmir comes replete with an impressively elaborate self-description. It talks of “Phonetics themes”, using phonemes rather than words to tell stories, with digressions into “Nada Yoga” and the claim that the producer is “beholden to the harmoniousness of two essential properties that maintains the forcefulness of a cognition space.” Even after several readings, soundtracked by the aural results, it remains opaque what the actual links are between the theory and Praxis.
What we have here is a record that is consistently sophisticated, sometimes almost beautiful, but remarkably standard. The palette here — a collage of field recordings, laptop distortion, minimal instrumentation and subterranean hums — is remarkably familiar from any number of iBook creations released in the last decade or so. Praxis is a particular serene version of this idiom. The ideas seem to be confined to the jerky cut-ups of the opening “A Phonetics These”, whose spliced syllables evoke something between Stockhausen’s Stimmung and Goodiepal. After this, tracks are left to drift along prettily, in a by now predictable international laptop style.
The rather misnamed “Visceral (In A Figurative Sense)” for instance, elegantly features doleful organ chords, a punctuating synth, and some background clutter and scrape, as if to give the impression that the piece is far less structured than it is. “Behold Now Bikkus, The Sounds of Nada Yoga” promises something slightly more outré, with its chants hovering in the background — but there are no major departures.
Owen Hatherley

Praxis sits in a strange place between surreal and often slurred electroinca, slow moving musique concrete, bent ‘n’ bizarre ambient soundscaping and touches of improv.

Through things start off fairly manic with the track A Phoetics Theme and its rapid fire sampling and comic cut up elements, don’t be deceived by this happy go luck opening shot. You see most of Praxis settles into a strange, surreal wonder or near slumber with Güney utilizing electronic drifts, sampled film music loops, eerier & spacey drone scaping, cut-up instrumental hit’s and texturing & all manner of odd, bizarre and effective cut-up field recordings. The tracks wondering and drifting between uneasy, strange, comic and atmospheric with Güney aways keeping alive the elements of surprise and invention through out the nine tracks on offer here.

With Praxis Güney has created a series of strange and atmospheric sound places, which through for the most part remain fairly unintrusive and subtle manage to worm their way under your skin to create uneasy and surreal thought patterns and emotions. (Roger Batty)

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