Wil Bolton - Time Lapse (Hibernate, 2010)

mp3 / 320 / 103mb / rs | rel. nov 2010 | hibernate

Collapsed Chimes from Wil Bolton on Vimeo.

Boomkat:

"Hibernate records continues to dominate the pastoral ambient wasteland with this latest missive from Boltfish co-owner Wil Bolton. Better known as glitchy IDM feller Cheju, on ‘Time Lapse’ Wil strips down his sound to come up with something far more measured and beautiful than anything in his back catalogue. Beginning with the reverberating electronics of ‘Falling Away’ this sets the tone for the album, with distant field recordings sitting beneath echoing melodies. Somewhere in-between the electrified shoegaze of Manual and the melancholy electronics of Vangelis, Wil navigates his sound into more acoustic territory on ‘Corrosion’ and into deep, haunting drone on ‘Slate’, but the rich melodic sense is the glue that holds the record together. Bolton might not be breaking any new ground on ‘Time Lapse’, but his production skill and ear for melody make this a thoroughly enjoyable cinematic listening experience.."

Food - Quiet Inlet (ECM, 2010)

mp3 / 320 / 111mb / rs | rel. apr 2010

review from bbc:

Quiet Inlet is Food's second album as a duo after the departure of Arve Henriksen and Mats Eilertsen in 2004. The group is joined this time by trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær and noise/ambient guitar star Christian Fennesz. Together they've produced a sumptuous and strikingly original record.

Thomas Strønen's percussion conveys a strong sense of the exotic. His playing is characterised by a sense of Zen-like space, each moment focused upon as it unfolds. He's able to switch from powerhouse rhythmic drive to reflective precision in the flicker of an eyelid. Factor in his deployment of effects and post-processing and he becomes an exciting and thoroughly intriguing performer.

Tenor and soprano saxophonist Iain Ballamy initially seems a very different proposition. His work is highly melodic and grounded in mainstream jazz, but like Strønen there's a strong sense of reflection and concentrated participation. This is a duo that really listens to each other. Ballamy contributes a swooning, and at times breathtaking, sense of keening beauty. It's the contrast between the two players that makes the music such an intriguing success.

Both Chimaera and Cirrina feature enthralling duets between Ballamy and Molvær, the former dipping and arcing like a swallow in slow motion while Molvær traces mournful vapour trails in a deep blue sky. Mictyris begins in muscular agitation, like a bad dream sci-fi movie, but unexpectedly evaporates into melodic, wistful fragments. Final track Fathom features Fennesz's faraway vibrato guitar and subtle coloration.

Quiet Inlet reveals a technologised rhythmic approach distantly related to jungle and two-step as well as connections with 1970s Miles Davis recordings, such as Big Fun's Great Expectations and Recollections. Food's music is a magical hybrid of technology and improvisation, Europe and America, ambience and dance." --Colin Buttimer

Styorfoam - The Point Misser (Morr Music, 2000)

mp3 / 320 / 100mb / rs | rel. 2000

still a love affair.

release note from morr:

"Maybe it's because of track titles like `Words Never Spoken' or `Heaven Is Burning', but I guess it has got more to do with the music and its magic hitting you like a kiss. Styrofoam's `The Point-Misser' makes you feel at ease, even at home. Inspired by a novel called 'The Sea Came In At Dawn' by Steve Erickson, Arne van Petegem's (famous for his work as `Tin Foil Star') does not care about writing a soundtrack for our oh-so modern times. Or maybe he does and the result does just not match your expectations. Leaving behind the obvious clicheé's of modern electronic music, especially the DSP-madness spreading like a virus among musicians around the world, Styrofoam concentrates on how catchy, deep and, at the same time, overwhelming a little melody can be. It can make you cry and smile at the very time. It can even make you burst into tears - good tears, though. Tears giving you new strength and hope to look for new ways of coping with your day-to-day life. Styrofoam bombardes you with feelings, emotions and snippets straight from the soul. Like in Erickson's novel, it is "time for a personal act of revolt. time to throw your oh-so-highly intellectualized sense of chaos into a true chaos of the heart and senses." Too right. And with Arne van Petegem's new album, the revolt is on its way."

Twine - Twine (Ghostly International, 2003)

mp3 / 320 / 147mb / rs | rel. oct 2003

Greg Malcolm and Chad Mossholder alchemize haunted voices, percussive static, and vaporous textures into nine hypnotic soundscapes. classic.

Peter Broderick & Johan G Winther - Re_Create Series Vol.1 (Tendervision, 2010) 7"

mp3 / 320 / 28mb / rs | rel. nov 2010 | tenderversion.com

tenderversion.com:

"For Vol.1 in the Re:Create Series we are very happy to introduce an exciting collaboration project to you called Peter Broderick & Johan G Winther on Johan G Winther & Peter Broderick. We can hear the two musicians tenderly performing their songs with violin, guitar and glockenspiel a.o., but most prominent may be their use of a small choir of voices. In their collaboration they never actually play together. Instead their playful project is about creating several kinds of artistic checkpoints arranged as a chain of mirror-like events making them switch roles and perspective with each other back and forth until they suddenly end up right back where they started, figuratively speaking…"