{"id":4282,"date":"2011-02-18T16:40:06","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T15:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=4282"},"modified":"2017-01-08T12:22:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T11:22:43","slug":"cronica-l-reviewed-by-cyclic-defrost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=4282","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Cr\u00c3\u00b3nica L\u00e2\u20ac\u009d reviewed by Cyclic Defrost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cronicaelectronica.org\/img\/cat\/050-2010-b.jpg\" alt=\"Cr\u00c3\u00b3nica L\" \/><br \/>\nCronica celebrates their 50th release with L, a compilation pairing 18 Cronica artists into collaborations. This results in 9 new compositions, exploring various facets of the label\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s approach to hazy, electro-acoustic sound art.<\/p>\n<p>While it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s difficult to pin Cronica down to a distinct sound, the artists here chiefly work in drones, in which field recording plays a significant part. And the quality is high throughout, from the motorised whine and static pops of Gilles Aubry and Paulo Raposo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcForms of Suspension\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 through to the floor-shaking low-end rumble of Pure and Duran Vazquez\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 aptly titled \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcStoorm\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.. Marc Behrens and Cem Guney employ an industrial grind, dappled in random clicks and glitch in \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcMouth to Mouse\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. Ran Slavin and Vitor Joaquim\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcVoices Over Water\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is predictably aquatic, waves of bass lapping against reverberant clanging and submerged voices.<\/p>\n<p>Both Janek Schaeffer and Stephan Mathieu\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s collaborations, with Enrico Coniglio and Piotr Kurek respectively, explore sounds familiar from their own collaboration Hidden Name, all rich, billowing synthetic drones, but they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re just out-blissed by bucolic closer \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcReve General\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 by The Beautiful Schizophrenic and Tu\u00e2\u20ac\u2122M. Best of all though is Lawrence English and Stephen Vitiello\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcCircles of Twine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, a gorgeous evocation of a sub-tropical setting, sparse piano laid over the chirrup of birds and insects, cloaked in a dank forest glow. All great tracks. <em>Joshua Meggitt<\/em><\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyclicdefrost.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/26\/various-artists-cronica-l-cronica\/\">Cyclic Defrost<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cronica celebrates their 50th release with L, a compilation pairing 18 Cronica artists into collaborations. This results in 9 new compositions, exploring various facets of the label\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s approach to hazy, electro-acoustic sound art. While it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s difficult to pin Cronica down to a distinct sound, the artists here chiefly work in drones, in which field recording &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=4282\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Cr\u00c3\u00b3nica L\u00e2\u20ac\u009d reviewed by Cyclic Defrost&#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":[390,28,23,99,19,85,42,45,20,70,25,24,69,110,14,32,15],"class_list":["post-4282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-390","tag-cem-guney","tag-duran-vazquez","tag-enrico-coniglio","tag-gilles-aubry","tag-janek-schaefer","tag-lawrence-english","tag-marc-behrens","tag-paulo-raposo","tag-piotr-kurek","tag-pure","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\/4282","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=4282"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4285,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282\/revisions\/4285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}