Archivi tag: ambient

Ubeboet

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coverSearching the old releases from Test Tube, I found this EP by Ubeboet, a sound artist based in Madrid involved in electronic/experimental music since mid 90’s. This work, titled Bleak EP, is dated 2004.

Bleak EP, by Ubeboet, is one of those kind of releases that lives on lasting relationships and on constant reintegration processes, achieving ‘that’ multidimensionality (big word) typical of the acoustic universe, giving so much freedom to the listener, that he (or she) will diminish or amplify the particular singularities of the sound particles that go in and out of the brain.
This work could be very easily integrated into the art of installationism, although never leaving the ‘soundscape’ genre. A constant struggle to arrive (or at least try to) an ideal of ‘musique concrète’. Holding itself to the capturing of sound landscapes, submitting them to a low-frequency treatment, Ubeboet breathes a comforting ‘less is more’ ambient, (re)created and integrated into unhabited sound habitats, or sometimes directly injected into the overcrowded urban territory. Ubeboet rests in the complex world of the ‘anti-fast listening’, where the perception and the raw and naked power of the music are intimately connected. A not-easy, not-clear and not-resolved world, into which we are forced to submerge and seek for the unknown. Highly recommended.
[Bruno Barros]

Two excerpts

Dowload the whole EP here.

David Fungi

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coverQualche novità dalla netlabel test tube. Per una volta c’è un italiano.

David Fungi, from Varese, Italy, is clearly inspired by nature. Field recordings pop up from the initial sounds of “aal_sentieri”, blended with synthetic and metallic electronic sounds which produce the kind of ambience one might recognize from William Basinski. It is this razor edge that defines the strong personality of this recording. Even though “Aal_sentieri” is ambient music, it is also restless, menacing, provokes the listener and gives him a sense of travelling through a mysterious and dark forest. As the piece unfolds through its 23 minutes, the sound layering becomes more complex, while one can only guess the origin of the animal noises underneath. When the path comes to an end, a climax appears in the last 4 minutes, first with a burst of industrial noise and finally an orchestral and cinematic climax, finishing the track. “aal_sentieri” leaves the listener in the company of silence, which in a strange kind of way almost works as a reverberation of the track.  It is not easy to capture one’s imagination like this, but David Fungi has that skill to mix disparate sounds in a coherent manner, making “aal_sentieri” a fine and peculiar release.»
[César A. Laia]

L’album è liberamente scaricabile qui.

Krypton

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Krypton

Krypton is a solo project of Krzysztof Berg from Szczecin in Poland (born in 1986). He’s been fascinated in sounds since 1999, when he recorded his first track on some popular music software in that times.

Krzysztof Berg about Krypton:

It’s hard to consider krypton’s music – mostly it’s electronic music with enormous variety of deep & atmo sounds. Most often krypton experiments with many different sounds simultaneously, that’s why many people consider his music little “strange”. For a while now, he’s been more focused on the silent & dark melodies, structure and arrangement of his songs. His music is for all people but not for everyone.

The last work by Krypton is “Silent Drama” published by the netlabel Test Tube.

From Silent Drama

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Personalmente, questa musica eterea mi piace e la ascolto volentieri, ma da un po’ ho dei dubbi sull’artisticità della faccenda. Con i sistemi attuali, mettere in piedi pezzi del genere è maledettamente semplice e non particolarmente innovativo.

Non che la semplicità in sé sia un problema. Anche comporre come Cage era semplice, ma all’epoca aveva un suo senso. Anche i loop del primo Eno erano semplici, ma erano una novità.

D’altra parte, Krypton è piuttosto raffinato, per cui lo segnalo. Chi vivrà vedrà…

A simple process

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Century of Aeroplanes, di cui ci siamo già occupati, ha prodotto un nuovo EP, “A simple process” che

is a collection of 6 compositions, each of which is based around a simple melodic fragment. These fragments are then altered by various processes (i.e. adding notes, transposing, shifting the beat placement). The compositions end when the process has run its course

Il risultato è un tranquillo ambient, con evidenti reminiscenze di un vecchio Eno, ma non è male e la progettualità compositiva applicata a del materiale di estrazione praticamente pop gli vale una citazione.

L’intero disco è scaricabile qui.

nest

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Nest is the collaborative project of Otto Totland and Huw Roberts. The two started working together after forging a strong friendship as former members of the Miasmah label. This self-titled EP is their first work publicly released.
Both pianists, there is little wonder that after exploring a plethora of musical styles, the two find themselves most at home writing traditionally structured pieces, with the ivories a major element throughout. The EP demonstrates clearly the innate ability the two have for song writing, borrowing from the world of film soundtracks and contemporary classical composers to craft delicate instrumental compositions.
Alongside their favoured instrument can be variously heard the plucked strings of the Welsh harp, violins, woodwind instruments, field recordings, percussion and a heady dose of mind wobbling effects.

The album is available from the Serein netlabel in 320kbps MP3

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Polina Voronova

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Russian sound artist Polina Voronova creates shimmering tapestries that walk the fine line between pretty and mystical. Minimal and drone oriented, her compositions are often delicate and full are bell-like tones; a city of chimes and tuning forks.
The album is free available from the Excentrica netlabel in 320kbps MP3.

Download all album in from here.

Nakjaarna

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Nakjaarna è il progetto di musica d’ambiente di Kris Tilbury, una compositrice americana che elabora elettronicamente strumenti comuni, come un dulcimer, la voce e percussioni leggere per creare dei bordoni dal sapore artico.
Questo è il suo ultimo lavoro, Frozen Industry, per la netlabel Negative Sound Institute da cui si può scaricare in toto.

Rain

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Rain è una serie di CD collegati a uno stesso concetto prodotti sotto gli auspici della netlabel Webbed Hand Records. Ogni CD è un brano ambient pensato per il relax, il lavoro o la socializzazione. Tipicamente le registrazioni che fanno parte di questa serie sono paesaggi minimalisti, con motivi eseguiti ciclicamente e ripetutamente, più che progressivamente, in modo da indurre uno stato di relax.

Questo CD è il contributo di Djinnestan. Traduco le note di programma:

Si tratta di un brano di 74 minuti, sottile e incantato. Come in un sogno vi trovatea passeggiare in una foresta di fate, scura e nebbiosa, abitata dalle fantasie di una immaginazione infantile. Questo album è ideale per la meditazione, la trance e le attività più tranquille. Si raccomanda di suonarlo a basso volume per un ascolto periferico, non diretto.

Personnel:
C.P. McDill – sound wave manipulations

Djinnestan – Listen to Rain – Download

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