Craven Faults * N (93) + Deep
Linked by their cover image but presenting totally different kinds of music: ‘post-industrial’ loops by Craven Faults vs. brutal noise-drone by N (93) + Deep.
Tag: loops
Mzungu * Bionulor
Mzungu sheds a different light of the four seasons, while Bionulor recycles fragments of Alexander Scriabin.
Markus Mehr – In
Markus Mehr‘s new album “In” is the promising first part of a trilogy: it will be followed by “On” (june 2012) and “Off” (january 2013), so the entire trilogy will take an exact year to complete.
“In” features two long tracks, “Komo” and“Ostinato”, about 25 minutes each.
At first listen, two albums come to mind that explore a similar compositional process: Gavin Bryars’ “Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet” and William Basinski’s “Disintegration Loops”.
But the comparision fails, because Mehr chooses quite a different approach to ‘minimal loops repeating’.
Visionary Hours – The Road to Basho
From the first bars of the opening track “Everyday is a Journey“, one could get the impression that “The Road to Basho” might fit in perfectly with the post-romantic classical chamber music releases so popular nowadays.
But after a while things start to sound a bit different: although the music sounds like it is created with acoustical instruments, the theme itself does not really seem to change..it gets looped over and over again – until it’s as hypnotizing as Gavin Bryars’ “Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet” (or as a William Basinski recording without the tape deterioration).
In fact, the only way to know your player is not stuck on repeat, is by recognising the (slowly increasing) phasing effects in the background.