Невообразимой аккуратности и красоты совместная запись американского и российского музыкантов. Как следует из названия, всё крутится вокруг насекомых, а точнее — их звуков. Кузнечики, цикады, неуклюжие шмели, мошки, осы и прочие записаны с любовью и чуть подзвучены шорохом трав, гулом далеких шоссе и взмахами ветров. Очень летняя и знойная работа.
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subtle subterreanean drones & microsounds from processed insect field recordings - a permanent crackling, creaking & rubbing of grass & diverse organisms mixed with environmental sounds of wind, etc.. very special drones at work here
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Jeph Jerman has a personal conception of what listening is shaped over the years & performances, and at the same time he maintains a very intimate relation with his environment, nature, matters and objects...here he shares his approach with Five Elements Music's one, an other eulogist of the organic...
The result of this common gestation is a detour via a world sheltered from sight and governed by its own rules...
"Insecta" doesn't pretend to be a scientific transcription or observation, but more of a poetic narration, a narration brought up on the wanderings of our imaginary where prevails form expressiveness and suggestive force...and paradoxically enough, the real seems better defined that way...
"Insecta" gives us to hear stridulations and buzzings, mandibles noises, the whole slowed down, mutated, rechoreographed around a driving its own progress framework...
The processed phonographies for their main part illustrate insectoid signal & behaviour through their variable habitat set against a background of bark murmurs & cracks, scrape on stones, smell of tepid humus, thin stream, other animal presence...
Each sound being an extra stroke on an elusive canvas with muddy tones...the gradual development of a topography of the unfathomable...
It consists in an high-flying exploration revolving around the shift, the inner feelings, the perception of the tenuous...like an incursion on tiptoe in an opaque sylvan zone...a vision through the other end of the telescope, a glow shed on the act of metamorphosis, the impermanence, and above all a reflection on this vague state of what is just on the threshold...
Yorgis Sakellariou comes back to us with this title where he always masters perfectly his arrangements dedicated to the strange darkness. I listened while reading an obscure novel, which was totally appropriate to my state of mind. When you know that the work is inspired by sacrificial rituals, war and murder ... Dare to listen! drone2805
Listening to Jerman always takes you to a place, no, transports you there. The quiet moments of western films you wish would last for longer. Will Long
With all proceeds going to benefit Ukraine, the latest from Angela Winter is a beautifully haunting work that centers the human voice. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 16, 2022
The North Carolina singer and multi-instrumentalist translates the "story of lightness" into nine experimental ambient spirituals. Bandcamp New & Notable Sep 8, 2021
Another wonderful album of the unique Philip Sulidae! With this particular touch to train us, using natural sounds, in a cold and strange universe that slides gently towards a silence, which it breaks with textures a little rasping, strident or chaotic. A great album to listen absolutely, maybe the best! I have a huge favorite for the fourth track, "Valley Floor, Nights and Frogs" which is delicious. drone2805