{"id":2741,"date":"2009-12-15T09:25:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T08:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=2741"},"modified":"2017-01-09T12:39:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T11:39:48","slug":"erotikon-reviewed-by-drowned-in-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=2741","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Erotikon\u00e2\u20ac\u009d reviewed by Drowned in Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cronicaelectronica.org\/img\/cat\/044-2009-b.jpg\" alt=\"Erotikon\" \/><br \/>\nPerhaps it&#8217;s the time of year or my inescapable decrepitude, but the armchair seems to be my destination more often than the dancefloor right now. Maybe it&#8217;s just that a lot of superb ambient\/drone\/slippercore music&#8217;s being released at the moment: Black To Comm (see AD015), cacao (see below), Rameses III (see below); I could go on (see below). Pushing its way towards the front of that estimable bunch is The Beautiful Schizophonic, aka Jorge Mantas, whose Erotikon doesn&#8217;t waste time in enfolding you in piling waves of rich, subtly melodic texture. &#8216;Aysha&#8217; and &#8216;Bambil\u00c3\u00a1ny&#8217; show just what you can do within the drone framework, brief dabs of birdsong or hushed vocals imparting a panoramic sense of wonder.<\/p>\n<p>Even when Mantas pursues more chilling moods, as with the hollowed-out tonalities of &#8216;Nocturnosque&#8217;, an innate musicality is still clearly apparent in its swaying distortions. The magnificent &#8216;Alba&#8217; stitches a sample of Au Clair de la Lune from 1860, the earliest known recording of a human voice, into the haunting piano playing of Yui Onodera. &#8216;Fornarina, with its puffs of glowing notes rising up around an LA phone conversation, is a warmer adjunct to Robin Rimbaud&#8217;s work as Scanner, while the 14-minute wash of closing track &#8216;Pollen&#8217; hits pretty much every pleasure centre that ambient music can reach. <em>Chris Power<\/em><\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"hhttp:\/\/drownedinsound.com\/in_depth\/4138601\">Drowned in Sound<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=buy\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/banner_0950.jpg\" alt=\"2 x ONE \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Cr\u00c3\u00b3nica holidays promotion\" title=\"2 x ONE \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Cr\u00c3\u00b3nica holidays promotion\" width=\"260\" height=\"50\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2510\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps it&#8217;s the time of year or my inescapable decrepitude, but the armchair seems to be my destination more often than the dancefloor right now. Maybe it&#8217;s just that a lot of superb ambient\/drone\/slippercore music&#8217;s being released at the moment: Black To Comm (see AD015), cacao (see below), Rameses III (see below); I could go &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=2741\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Erotikon\u00e2\u20ac\u009d reviewed by Drowned in Sound&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[395,14],"class_list":["post-2741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-395","tag-the-beautiful-schizophonic","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741","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=2741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2743,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions\/2743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}