Nanimo nai wakusei means "empty planets" in Japanese and is an apt description for key elements of Tim Salden's music as Osoroshisa. It reflects the width of uninhabited and lonesome worlds and how time becomes a secondary factor on an empty planet that lacks any point of reference for perceiving its continuous passage. In the broader sense, it may also refer to isolated persons living in a solar system of their own, without a way of taking notice of other worlds apart from theirs and where chains of events have gradually been replaced by a constant train of thoughts. Accordingly, the music is located between drone and dark ambient without being particularly representative of either genre and evolves slowly, with recurrent figures weaved into persistent drones and subtle changes in modulation rather than thematic variation and progression.
Kasei ("fire star", Mars) as opener starts with a boomy drone of indecisive ninth and fourth intervals that lead to a choir like sequence. There is a distant similarity to the shoegazing sound of My Bloody Valentine, minus the rhythm section and vocals and recorded hundreds of metres away in the main concourse of a major railway station. In Dosei ("earth star", Saturn), a scifi movie soundtrack athmosphere is prevailing, perhaps due to the prominent use of vintage analogue synth sounds. Kinsei ("gold star", Venus), by far the gloomiest tune, pictures the hostility of overheated deserts with impenetrable tone clusters that barely lighten up towards the end. At first glance, Suisei ("water star", Marcury) - as closing tune of the album - seems to offer an resolution with emphatic swelling of ninth intervals, but too soon the faint glimpse of sunlight has to give room to gloomy darkness again, underlining the eremite's fate to return to the beginning.
Olliver Wichmann
hebdomadness is a new biweekly tracked music competition, similar to (and largely inspired by) the groovy compo from 1997-2000. the first week is for writing a song, songs are then gathered and the votepack is assembled; the second week is for voting, after which the results are posted and the process begins anew.
hebdomad #01 samplepack will be available 2009-06-19 17:00 UTC
we need your support! this will never take off if only two or three people submit entries. this first month will be a trial run; pending enough interest it will become a regular biweekly competition. so spread the word!
Yeah, that's right, two new releases in two weeks!
We're very proud to announce the latest release on our XSN free netlabel catalog: Kill Ref's 'Protection' EP (XSN031). Hailing from Italy, Kill Ref serves up intricately sliced beats, beautiful melodies and deep-cut, angular grooves across four studio tracks and a live version of the title track.
First collaborative effort between these excellent north-american experimental sound artists:
my work is a process of combining field recordings made on a dreary
Sunday morning in the poorest sections of inner city Wilmington,
Delaware--essentially these recordings were of empty spaces of wind
moving through tight graffiti covered alley ways and rows of
government housing located on the outer fringe of the city--the
recordings primarily consist of a sudden clatter of debris, strange
chiming noises but mostly a stretch of ghostly silences. I combined
these recordings with processed electric guitar and electric mbira.
everything was recorded live in the studio to create a series of
textural works--this process of creating a musical environment I
intended throughout to be a kind of reclaiming of what lay beneath the
taken-for-granted, indeed, "dirty" city underbelly. that is, I wanted
to bring out the beauty in all landscapes and natural phenomenon
(i.e., wind), however, disguised and dirtied they may be by government
neglect and public indifference to longstanding segregation....
[ Ben Fleury-Steiner ]
I've really enjoyed listening to Ben Steiner's compositions. They're wonderfully layered in depth and exhibit an exqusite density that comes across in a pristine way, one of which that really captivates my ears. Last summer I began talking with Ben about the possibility of collaborating and things began to fall into place really quickly, which was great. At the time we were also talking about the cities we live in and about the variety of sounds we come across as a result. To me these works represent the artistic culmination of treated sound extracts of the urban display. They exemplify a hybrid of the urban experince rendered through sound, built and broken, the dirty and the clean...
[ Christopher McFall ]
Потерянная Горла - Беспроходимость (promo EP) net-release (mp3, 320kbps)
Project of Alexander Kibanov (Russia, more than ten projects, such as Earth Incubator, Headless Kamikaze, Illnathix etc.) and Neven Crnich (Bosnia-i-Herzegovina, projects idlness distribution, Sebastian Crnich, SMRZNIK). Specialized on harsh noise walls.
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