V/A : 2 Favourite Places

Following last week’s Thomas Koner’s mentioning of longitude/lattitude’s in the piece, this compilation, the second in a series, does the same. Each of the ten pieces is a favorite place for the composer. They are also mentioned by the place it is, although then its still not easy to know what it is, except of course ‘my bed’ by He Can Jog. I could of course install google’s earth view thingy, but then I rather listen and imagine these places myself. Oh oops. The booklet provides me with pictures and descriptions of each of the places, which is a nice read. If you read these, you might think that this is a CD of purely field recordings, as there are references to recording dates/times, but I guess that’s when the basic material has been recorded, which was later manipulated. Throughout one can say that these ten composers all belong to the world of microsound, with their minimalist, electronic processing of the original field recordings. Sometimes we hear a bit of rainfall, bird twitter, people talking or snooring in ‘my bed’. Not much news under the sun in terms of music, but throughout I must say this is a nice compilation of well made field recordings, microsound and electronics. Including Lawrence English, Yannick Franck, Micheal Santos, Icarus, Sawako, Jeremy Bible, Austitici, Calika and Micheal Trommer. (FdW) Vital Weekly 696

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LAWRENCE ENGLISH : A COLOUR FOR AUTUMN

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If an artist releases a lot, its never easy to say in what order things were recorded and thus its difficult to pinpoint the development. Last week we reviewed ‘It’s Up To Us To Live’, which has no recording dates on it, this week its ‘A Colour For Autumn’, which is recorded between 2007 and 2009, but listening to the music the one from last week was finished later than this one. Last week’s release saw a shift to ‘louder’ music, which is totally absent here. If that was an one-off event or perhaps a new direction, time will tell (next week, same place?), but ‘A Colour For Autumn’ is the ‘old’ Lawrence English, working with acoustic instruments, field recordings and electronics. Gentle music, ambient no doubt, microsound, and with the absence of glitch-tronics. The perfect music for a late night listening session. Sustaining tones, drone like, elegant music. Perhaps nothing new under the sun, but English does a great job here. Out of many refined moments, this is even more refined.

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