{"id":6459,"date":"2013-05-01T10:26:13","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T09:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=6459"},"modified":"2017-01-04T19:14:20","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T18:14:20","slug":"never-so-alone-reviewed-by-whisperin-hollerin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=6459","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Never So Alone\u00e2\u20ac\u009d reviewed by Whisperin &#038; Hollerin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cronicaelectronica.org\/img\/cat\/073-2013-b.jpg\" alt=\"Never So Alone\" \/><br \/>\nThere\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an interesting back-story to this release. The eruption of the Eyjafjallaj\u00c3\u00b6kull volcano in Iceland, which resulted in the grounding of many European flights for a week in April 2010 saw Simon Whetham grounded in Lisbon.<\/p>\n<p>Effectively marooned, Whetham took his sound gear round the city and captured a vast array of material from field recordings. The material left untouched for a while, after which he revisited them and edited them together as a response to the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s geography \u00e2\u20ac\u201c both physical and human \u00e2\u20ac\u201c its architecture and ambience, weaving in his own personal feelings from what must have been a strange time that was in effect open-ended and unplanned.<\/p>\n<p>The result is compelling, atmospheric and evocative.<\/p>\n<p>The first track, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcInertia, Rising\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 carves out a wide tunnel of ambience some 17 minutes long that creeps and echoes slowly through the drains. \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcShifting\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is appropriately title: long, undulating drones interweave to form a supple lattice work.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcNever so Alone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is a deeply nuanced soundwork that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sparse yet richly textured and highly evocative. The atmosphere is one of alienation and detachment, the muted sounds are distant as though the city is being heard and observed from afar. <em>Christopher Nosnibor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whisperinandhollerin.com\/reviews\/review.asp?id=9989\">Whisperin &#038; Hollerin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an interesting back-story to this release. The eruption of the Eyjafjallaj\u00c3\u00b6kull volcano in Iceland, which resulted in the grounding of many European flights for a week in April 2010 saw Simon Whetham grounded in Lisbon. Effectively marooned, Whetham took his sound gear round the city and captured a vast array of material from field &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=6459\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Never So Alone\u00e2\u20ac\u009d reviewed by Whisperin &#038; Hollerin&#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":[373,132],"class_list":["post-6459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-373","tag-simon-whetham","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6459","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=6459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6461,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6459\/revisions\/6461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}