1 Idle Nightmare
2 Electric Lines
3 $130
Trois pièces ambient à la guitare acoustique, au laptop et au sampler...
Three instrumental pieces for a 35 min. release, recorded with an acoustic guitar, a sampler and a laptop, by Alexander Turnquist, a young musician describing his production as “instrumental Guitar/Ambient noise from Idaho”.
The second track and the longest, 23 minutes, stands brightly above the rest and make it difficult to focus on the two others. It's a radiant dronescape, a repetitive and slowly evolving piece using loops, with solar and erosional, warm and slightly euphoric effects, that may recall the better ambient works of Brian Eno, Basinski or Rafael Toral, but with a more emotional and less deep vibe.
“Idle Nightmare” opens the album but is quite colder, even glacial, a good interpretation of the cover picture but with diminishing lights. This track seems to never start, caught by the blizzard, caught by the winter night. “$130” is more interesting, more apneic, like swimming slowly underneath cold water, below a mineral azure sky.
Very interesting debut for Alexander Turnquist, not terribly innovative, but inducing nice atmospheres.
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