Today I’m back with a Fluid Label Focus on CRÓNICA on this blog. And I’ve got an excellent album by a familiar name for you. This is the album BITTERSWEET MELODIES by RAN SLAVIN, released on CRÓNICA in 2016. Miguel was so kind as always to send me a review copy of the Limited-edition CD …
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The worlds created by Ran Slavin are all part of the nocturnal universe and this album is definitely one of them. All twelve Bittersweet Melodies is a collection of unique stories between sunrise and sunset. Each of the tracks is unlike the other, some bitter and some sweet, as the title of the album suggests. …
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É um cliché dizer que uma determinada música parece ter sido feita a pensar num filme, seja esse filme real ou imaginário. No seu 11º álbum, o israelita Ran Slavin deu um pouco a volta a esta boutade; Bittersweet Melodies soa não a longa-metragem, mas a uma colecção de vignettes com pontos em comum entre …
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Album numero undici per il musicista/video artist/film maker israeliano Ran Slavin. “Bittersweet Melodies†mette in circolo materiali persi e sparsi composti nell’ultima dozzina di anni, lucidati e rimasterizzati. Una raccolta che nonostante il divario temporale che separa una traccia dall’altra, denota una discreta personalità , non appariscente ma di solida tensione unitaria. Stratificazione di segnali altamente …
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Le colonne sonore sono parte fondamentale di un lm e spesso hanno decretato il successo della pellicola. Poi c’è chi scrive colonne sonore per lm immaginari come fa Barry Adamson e c’è chi estrae frammenti di queste musiche, le scompone e intorno crea un’atmosfera destrutturata fatta di una dark ambient dagli echi quasi jazz noir …
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Clicks’n’cuts, Glitch – da war doch was. Wem die bittersüßen Melodien auf dem elften Studioalbum von Ran Slavin etwas aus der Zeit gefallen erscheinen, liegt damit nicht ganz verkehrt. Das Material, dass Sklavin hier abliefert, was ursprünglich für eine Veröffentlichung auf Mille Plateaux vorgesehen – die bekanntermaßen vor vielen, vielen Jahren recht abrupt ihre Pforten …
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Quello musicale è solamente un aspetto dell’attività creativa di Ran Slavin, artista multimediale israeliano con base a Tel Aviv. Le sue installazioni sono esattamente come potreste immaginarle ascoltando i suoi dischi: luci al neon e paesaggi distopici. Slavin, in ogni caso, nasce proprio come musicista: voce e chitarra del gruppo post-punk israeliano Shalosh Hait e …
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Un tour du côté de 2010, embranchement vers les tops de l’année. Tout en haut de l’échelle, là où les espoirs de disques indémodables tentent de préfigurer l’avenir. Elle se dessinait aux sons d’une ambient venue d’Israël, mise en abime par RAN SLAVIN, sous le nom bienvenu de ‘The Mediterranean Drift’. Six ans plus loin, …
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Bittersweet Melodies supone su undécimo álbum, un trabajo que se sumerge los atardeceres ambient, el negro Oriente Medio, zonas tranquilas con atmósferas utópicas o ritmos low-fi muy fracturados. Encontramos en este Bittersweet Melodies material inédito disperso por discos duros relacionadas con una publicación con Mille Plateaux hace 12 años, justo antes de su inesperado cierre. …
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Given Ran Slavin’s broad artistic pursuits, which span video installation, sound and film, and his far-reaching interests which manifest in the exploration of the tensions between opposites, Bittersweet Melody is something of a summation of his preoccupations. Just as ‘bittersweet’ is one of those words that encapsulates contradiction and juxtaposition, so Slavin’s latest album is …
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