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creepy stuff..but extremly beautiful at the same time. here's what they had to say about it in the wire: When Texas born Akira Rabelais found a handful of discarded Ampex tapes containing Icelandic a cappella laments - recorded some time between 1960 and 1980 - he decided to bring them back to life using his 'magic realist' code language. Rabelais writes software but likens the process to writing poetry. For him it has the same unpredictable outcome, labyrinthine meaning and constant surprise. He constructed the software Argeiphontes Lyre in the early 90s, a subtle sound processor that randomly distorts and transforms pre-existing sounds. It's a firm favourite of the likes of Terre Thaemlitz and Scanner. The album has the air of an invented mythical past, with lengthy titles that seem like medieval biblical references - "1483 Caxton Golden Leg. 208 b/2 He put not away the wodenes of his flessh with a sherde or shelle" is about the shortest. Spellewauerynsherde is the third release on David Sylvian's Samadhi Sound label, and the first without input from Sylvian himself. Graceful, sorrowful hymns are draped with swathes of haunting, echoing noise, like hearing funeral music carried with the wind through a storm. The subtle digital processing slowly transmutes the choral pitches, adding small delays, echoes and loops. He plays the role of a magus using his code as a spell to summon up a dormant spirit hidden within these graceful Icelandic laments. This is lonely, spiritual music evoking the solemn atmosphere of Eliane Radigue's Trilogie De La Mort, the memory music of Philip Jeck and the introverted romance of Sylvian collaborator Fennesz, Rabelais represents an elegiac strand of electronica that goes entirely beyond the plug-in craze of his contemporaries - the clicks, cuts 'n' glitch division that ultimately renders so much electronica similar sounding. Spellewaue |
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Spellewauerynsherde breathes sublimity through your CD player circuits. |
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damn..this is almost too scary to listen to in a dark..you start checking for ghosts.. |
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it'd be interesting to see a list of all the artists who have used the software he created... i've heard a lot of really cool musicians rave about how great it was for their process. |
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can you name some of those cool musicians? :) |
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off the top of my head, i know that Keith Berry used the program to do his latest album, which is pretty cool... but possibly not as good as Rabelais' stuff... but there are others... lemme see if i can find some of them |
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listening to the samples over at Boomkat and reading their review, I think you should indeed give Ligeti a listen - especially "requiem" and "lux aeterna" ("requiem" is the piece that Kubrick used whenever the monolith presents itself). this is quite nice. |
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i'll check it out, thanks! |
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agreed |
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do you have this on slsk, Goran? |
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uh, no..and i left the cd in the office...i'll rip it tomorrow, i promise :) |
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doh. alright then. :) |
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sounds good... the titles are awesome. |
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i downloaded that as i saw you mention it on soulseek : ) writing as i listen... trk1. sounds like traditional chants... quiet music, needs a very quiet background. interesting. compared to other types of experimental music it is very unusual, but it is a lot less strange when compared to some other traditional chants... (at least i have this impression) trk2. same style, but this one sounds a bit more "religious". trk3. gets weirder. ...or more normal, depending on your point of view... gets more abstract anyway. and a bit creepier maybe. trk4. more abstract again... sick ambient. the voices are still here, but in the background. longest track of the album. doesn't vary much... but it doesn't need to. trk5. ah, back to chant-style... more like a lament here. a quite strong feeling of sadness. and a few glitches that makes the track weirder... i don't know whether it's because i got "used" to it and like it more, but this track sounds the best to me so far. it's almost 3am now... i should get to sleep, and i have a headache. and this music makes me sad. i have heard sadder. i have heard weirder too. but still... not a lot that sound like it. trk.... what the hell... track seven already? wait, i hadn't noticed track 5 was very short and thought it was the beginning of track 6... oh well. the beginning of track 5 was the short sad lament, and track 6 was the a bit more abstract, still sad, music afterwards. (ouch, what a title for track 6... +_+) on to track seven anyway... this one has a lot more.... "hope" in it. and is maybe even quieter than the other ones. i like it as much as track 6, these last two tracks are my favourites. if it was a picture it could be some rays of light through the (perhaps broken, or dirty) windows of an old, abandoned house or church in ruins. this album may not be the weirdest nor the scariest i have ever heard, but... this is definitely unusual, and has a “transparent” quality to it, really hard to describe but that’s the word which |
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came to my mind. probably because its quietness, but not only that. and the silence after hearing it has something special to it... i could almost hear those voices even though the album is over. good for night-time listening... |
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excellent review there uzim :) and yes, very much night listening material! |
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sounds nice but I imagine it'd get a bit tiresome over time.. that's probably just me, though. |
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have you heard, by any chance, an album called "Au Défaut Du Silence" by Reinhold Friedl and Michael Vorfeld? it's a very different style but somehow it makes me think of it. also minimalistic, weird and creepy. here are some samples, that take forever to load but...: |
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haven't heard that yet..it's in my wishlist now though :) cheers! samples sound ace! |
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i've checked samples 2 and 6....this indeed sounds like a soundtrack for "2001". It's not something to listen to in daylight. How long are full tracks ? Can't see the track lenghts on the site. |
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uhh, i don't remember now, but i think most are about 5 or 6 minutes, there's one real short like less than a minute i think and one (awesome) long one - over 20 minutes i think. |
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1 Wycliff Gen. ii.7 (6:18) 2 Glower Conf. II.20 (7:24) 3 Promp. Parv. 518/20 (6:36) 4 Caxton Golden Leg. 208b/2 (21:15) 5 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 125 (0:44) 6 (Gorgeous Curves Lovely Fragments Labyrinthed On Occasions Entwined Charms, A Few Stories At Any Longer Swrn To Gathered From A Guileless Angel And The Hilt Edges Of Old Hearts, If They Do In The Guilt Of Deep Despondency) (6:09) 7 Milton Samson 1122 (8:06) i should've checked myself first :) |
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bump for qrter. |
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I get an error when I try to browse your files. |
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crap. must be the router..i'll sort this out and get back at you when it's done! |
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sorted!! sorry for delay.. |
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I already racked 'em up yesterday, but I think I've been queued ever since. |
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oh ok, if you wish you can get it from me, although i don't know how fast it's going to go.. |
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yeah I mean I'm queued trying to get them from you! :) |
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ahh, sorry, i just saw that now :) |
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oh it's on the go! thank you! :) |
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you're welcome! i hope you like it. |
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i dont regret coming in here. i'm gonna try to get my hands on any of his works, whenever i can scrounge some money. thx! |
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why would you regret coming here in the first place? it's awesome :) |
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what is qrter's slsk nickname goran? |
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not sure..i think he changes it often.. |
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oh ok. |
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Had this a while now and it's just grown and grown on me. Very sinister, very beautiful and well worth tracking down. Yeh. |
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