{"id":11097,"date":"2022-10-04T10:45:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T09:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11097"},"modified":"2022-10-04T10:46:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T09:46:00","slug":"haarvol-xoan-xil-lopezs-track-the-previous-extant-of-the-hereafter-reviewed-by-ambient-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11097","title":{"rendered":"Haarv\u00f6l + Xo\u00e1n-Xil L\u00f3pez\u2019s track \u201cThe Previous Extant of the Hereafter\u201d\u00a0reviewed by Ambient Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cronicaelectronica.org\/releases\/191\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/cronica191-2022_1440-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11067\" width=\"520\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/cronica191-2022_1440-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/cronica191-2022_1440-260x260.jpg 260w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/cronica191-2022_1440-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/cronica191-2022_1440-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/cronica191-2022_1440.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A bold statement in the liner notes:\u00a0<em>\u2018There is no progress in art\u2019.<\/em>\u00a0(I personally would have added an exclamation mark).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is followed by some philosophical musings about the relationship of art with time, and\u00a0<em>\u2018with its time.\u2019<\/em>\u00a0And about the fact that the\u00a0<em>\u2018sounds we hear on this album are grouped in a harmonious relationship\u2019,\u00a0<\/em>are\u00a0<em>\u2018a deliberate escape from the linearity of chronological time and the appetite for another, imaginary time, which allows for the most diverse and strange associations.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sounds somewhat pretentious and difficult to grasp perhaps, but don\u2019t let that put you off. After all, the most interesting \u2018ambient\u2019 music should make you lose track of time. And, above that, may also reveal an uncanny yet familiar strangeness.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The music on this album consists of improvisations on an Iberian pipe organ built in 1801, played by\u00a0<strong><em>Xo\u00e1n-Xil L\u00f3pez<\/em><\/strong>, in a sonic dialogue with the electronics and field recordings performed by\u00a0<strong><em>Haarv\u00f6l:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<strong><em>Fernando Jos\u00e9 Pereira<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong><em>Jo\u00e3o Faria<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The four tracks on this album all\u00a0<em>\u2018contain a certain degree of familiarity that is simultaneously undermined by an inherent strangeness\u2019<\/em>, demonstrating what\u00a0<em>Freud<\/em>\u00a0meant with his notion of \u2018unheimlich\u2019. But you\u2019ll probably feel that \u2018familiar strangeness\u2019 even without reading the liner notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ambientblog.net\/2022-09\/english-haarvollopez\/\">Ambient Blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bold statement in the liner notes:\u00a0\u2018There is no progress in art\u2019.\u00a0(I personally would have added an exclamation mark). This is followed by some philosophical musings about the relationship of art with time, and\u00a0\u2018with its time.\u2019\u00a0And about the fact that the\u00a0\u2018sounds we hear on this album are grouped in a harmonious relationship\u2019,\u00a0are\u00a0\u2018a deliberate escape from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11097\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Haarv\u00f6l + Xo\u00e1n-Xil L\u00f3pez\u2019s track \u201cThe Previous Extant of the Hereafter\u201d\u00a0reviewed by Ambient Blog&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[553,292,491],"class_list":["post-11097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-553","tag-haarvol","tag-xoan-xil-lopez-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11098,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11097\/revisions\/11098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}