Falta de Tempo

Por vários motivos, näo tenho tido tempo para actualizar o blog. O curso que estou a tirar está numa fase um pouco mais avancada e os estudos säo prioritários. Vou fazer aqui mais um famoso copy-paste, porque o tempo para escrever (ou mesmo para ouvir) é muito pouco, tem sido um martírio. Aqui väo as reviews do pouco que tenho ouvido.




AGF/Delay - Explode, cd.2005 [AGF/Delay]


AGF/Delay marks a further coming together of Finland's Abtye Greie and Vladsilav Delay, more or less shunning the respective styles and genres with which they are generally associated, AGF/Delay instead takes the day-to-day snippets of modern culture which we all unconsciously hoover up (glimpses of news stories, half-heard conversations on the bus etc.) and distils it through a musical filter which takes in dub, electronica, microscopic emissions and even chamber music. As they are dealing in recollections and memories the subject matter on show is quite hazy and often untethered, lending a frosted-glass atmosphere to proceedings. Greie's blunt but considered vocals drift lazily in and out of the mix throughout, evoking those of Michaela Melian's recent 'Baden-Baden' all the while complemented by Delay's sparse production which is just as happy to throw down industrial clicks as it is 80's power ballad atmospherics. All in all a discordantly bijou record that even finds at one point Mr Delay edging closer to the deep House glides of his Luomo project and AGF consenting to stop narrating and start singing. Well worth checking out. - in Boomkat




Alva Noto - Transrapid / Transvision / Transspray, 3xcd.2005 [Raster-Noton]


This release is presented in three cds: Transrapid, Transvision and finally, Transspray. Across the 3 installments special emphasis is put on the rhythmic aspects of minimalism, utilising Carsten Nicolai’s maverick minimal intricacies in brilliant white surroundings. There’s a crisp clarity to Nicolai’s construction’s that’s very hard to dissect – you know that you shouldn’t be able to relate to this music’s sparse trajectory emotionally, and yet, in between moments of microscopic dissection and malfunctioning arrangements - the material works on an incredibly moving level. Carsten Nicolai has been working on this material for over two years, these three releases also adhering to Raster Noton’s strict aesthetic emphasis – housed in absolutely sublime booklet-sized die-cut packaging that visually reflects the contents to be found within. Incredible music. - in Boomkat




Larsen - Play, cd.2005 [Important]


To say that larsen is mysterious or elusive is an understatement. they are are so elusive, in fact, that micheal gira of the swans/angels of light fame once said of larsen “"i worked intimately with the band for three weeks, but i never saw their faces." perhaps the finest description of their sound came from a perceptive, if not overly wordy, italian music journalist who described them as an “italian-cult-collective-urban-folk-ritual-experimental soundscape-wall of love band.” it’s all true. larsen’s sound is equally as ambiguous as any attempt to describe them, imagine elements of einsturzende neubauten, the swans, barbez, six organs of admittance, vibracathedral orchestra and godspeed you black emperor. Recommended. - in Boomkat