{"id":3950,"date":"2010-10-28T10:12:06","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T09:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=3950"},"modified":"2017-01-08T12:22:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T11:22:43","slug":"cronica-l-reviewed-by-textura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=3950","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Cr\u00c3\u00b3nica L\u00e2\u20ac\u009d reviewed by Textura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cronicaelectronica.org\/img\/cat\/050-2010-b.jpg\" alt=\"Cr\u00c3\u00b3nica L\" \/><br \/>\nCr\u00c3\u00b3nica celebrates its fiftieth release with a compilation featuring nine collaborations by Stephan Mathieu, Janek Schaefer, Lawrence English, Marc Behrens, Stephen Vitiello, Tu M&#8217;, and others. Cr\u00c3\u00b3nica L&#8217;s material is emblematic of the type of bold experimentalism the label has remained faithful to since its inception more than seven years ago. It&#8217;s an hour of challenging yet engrossing listening packed with microtextural soundscapes and granular drones that should appeal to devotees of Francisco L\u00c3\u00b3pez and electronic producers of kindred sensibility. Throughout the recording, ever-mutating sounds flutter hyperactively in convulsive settings of resolutely abstract character.<\/p>\n<p>In \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Unfurling Fugue,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Janek Schaefer weaves Enrico Coniglio&#8217;s Venice-based field recordings into a combustible melange of clattering noises and organ tones. Gilles Aubry and Paulo Raposo give us nearly ten minutes of restlessly churning industrial dronescaping in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Forms of Suspension.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d @c (Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais) and Gintas K conjure a dizzying storm in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153K.\/85\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of rabid insectoid chirp and rumble, with all of it laced with swirling shards of acoustic guitar flutter. Stephan Mathieu and Piotr Kurek generate a deeply crackling drone of voice fragments and electronic slivers (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Heavens Have Many Colors\u00e2\u20ac\u009d), while the plaintive ululations of a Middle Eastern singer shadow a turbulent churn of industrial noise in Ran Slavin and Vitor Joaquim&#8217;s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Voices Over Water.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Circles of Twine\u00e2\u20ac\u009d finds Lawrence English and Stephen Vitiello weaving outdoors field recordings and piano playing into a dense field of reverberant haze, after which \u00e2\u20ac\u0153R\u00c3\u00aave General,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d perhaps the album&#8217;s peak moment, takes the recording out on a celestial cloud of blinding tones and washes, courtesy of The Beautiful Schizophonic (Jorge Mantas) and Tu M&#8217; (Rossano Polidoro, Emiliano Romanelli). Despite the involvement of eighteen different artists, the collection turns out to be surprisingly cohesive with each of the nine pieces complementing one another by spinning fully developed variations on the dronescaping style. On this collection, Cr\u00c3\u00b3nica re-affirms its reputation as a label of integrity that regularly offers free-to-download recordings to its listeners and is more than a little deserving of whatever support the electronic music listening community can provide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cr\u00c3\u00b3nica celebrates its fiftieth release with a compilation featuring nine collaborations by Stephan Mathieu, Janek Schaefer, Lawrence English, Marc Behrens, Stephen Vitiello, Tu M&#8217;, and others. Cr\u00c3\u00b3nica L&#8217;s material is emblematic of the type of bold experimentalism the label has remained faithful to since its inception more than seven years ago. It&#8217;s an hour of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=3950\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Cr\u00c3\u00b3nica L\u00e2\u20ac\u009d reviewed by Textura&#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":[390,16,99,19,21,85,42,20,70,24,69,110,14,32,15],"class_list":["post-3950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-390","tag-atc","tag-enrico-coniglio","tag-gilles-aubry","tag-gintas-k","tag-janek-schaefer","tag-lawrence-english","tag-paulo-raposo","tag-piotr-kurek","tag-ran-slavin","tag-stephan-mathieu","tag-stephen-vitiello","tag-the-beautiful-schizophonic","tag-tu-m","tag-vitor-joaquim","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950","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=3950"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3953,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950\/revisions\/3953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}