6/28/2011
Matthieu Choux - Deux Pièces (2011)
Petcord
8.8
8.8
/Electro-acoustic, Psycho-acoustic, Acousmatics, Sound art, Experimental electronica, Avant-garde, Minimal, Abstract/
Comment: Although this is an instance of dense electro-acoustic progression, however, it makes some difference from the most kinds of electro-acoustics thanks to its vastly evolved dramaturgical point of view. There are represented 2 long tracks which are intended to hit the listeners through the sudden dashes of tempo changes, unexpected treated vocal cuts and hauntingly dystopic milieus reminding of some kind of horror movies sometime seen. Silence is set against the noisy frames and clear-cut half tones-dark drones inbetween it are those essential algorithms searching for new intentions and purposes to be set up.
Jani Hirvonen: Field Recordings From India & Nepal (2007/2010)
/Field recording, Found sound, Audio documentary, Musique concrete, Non music/
Comment: This is an audio documentary based on one man`s wandering and recording in the Hindustan Peninsula and Nepal. Although not always used to be the best in the quality of sound, however, during those 103 minutes you can be a witness to the street sounds, temple incantations, wedding outtakes and nature sounds (birds and camels) surrounding you tightly right and left. Juxtapose it with an analogous yet more elaborated and purposed output by Oscar Coen Polack, titled as The Skipping Monk (Recordings Of Nature And Culture In India) (2009, Narrominded). Deserving thanks in any cases.
Bombay Laughing Club - The Golden Years (2007)
/Avant-blues, Improvised music, Avant-garde, Experimental indie, Psychedelic, Crossover, Experimental pop/
Comment: This is a off-kilter blues-based album by a loosely related Canadian treeplanters combo filling their resting time between the job. Most of the songs seem to run in the vein of improvised jams reminding of the Captain Beefheart and Jon Spencer Blues Explosion or The Doors`s La Woman at its more ordinary moments. Sometimes the combo`s experiments used to crisscross the borders of the blues music, reaching out the realms of krautrock, raga music, just a case of proper indie rock (You Want It All) and even the cases of humour (for instance, Blue Berry which sounds like a mocking version of the kind of Rednex`s eurobeat disco). Or Slippery Sleep which is an immense run on the Stereolab-alike art pop/experimental indie in the first part.
6/27/2011
John Praw - John Praw (2011)
/Ambient, Post-rock, Soundscape, Minimal, Modern classical, Experimental electronica, Crosover, Dark ambient/
Comment: This is the debut album by a musician previously known as [praw] and who founded the Mine All Mine Records. However, his concept is revealed through 10 tracks recorded in 2006-2011 in Wisconsin and in Norway. The basis of the album relies on a kind of refined atmosphericness running mainly on the ambient mode, beyond it recruiting the elements from the realm of post-rock and modern classical as well. Praw is skillful enough for playing up the counterparts of diverse sonic elements against each other - all those blissfully light-hearted sounds are filtrated through the dark-hued zones. However, there can admit some exceptions either - for instance, the starting track Vokaler watches for such progressions as similar to Sigur Ròs or På Jakttur is a sort of the Kraftwerkian dream set up on the rule of ambient music. In most cases, Praw`s result can be compared to the ones by Mark Nelson aka Pan American.
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