Henrik Rylander - Public Loudspeakers: Information & Disinformation (Kning Disk, 2007)

1 Information & Disinformation For Public Loudspeakers 59:58

Public Loudspeakers: Information and Disinformation is a document of a power and control system, as common as the CCTV cameras and with a long history of war propaganda, here for the first time revealed and exposed in an art context. The sound source is the data from the .tif files of the photographs in the original book, processed with various computer software. The result is 58 minutes of powerful drone music filled with information and disinformation.
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Leif Elggren - We Are All Born To Become Angels (Kning Disk, 2005)

1 We Are All Born To Become Angels 19:21

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Alexander Turnquist - Apneic (Kning Disk, 2007)

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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Library Tapes - Fragment (Kning Disk, 2008)

1 Fragment I (2:27)
2 Fragment II (4:02)
3 Fragment III (2:38)
4 Fragment IV (2:03)
5 Fragment V (2:21)
6 Fragment VI (1:37)
7 Fragment VII (1:49)
8 Fragment VIII (3:33)

Après Hostluft, nouvelle réalisation de David Wenngren, aidé cette fois-ci par Peter Broderick et Sylvain Chauveau, touches de piano aériennes, cordes légèrement frottées...

In the wake of the beautiful Hostluft album, David Wenngren returns with a new set of recordings, this time assisted by fellow piano enthusiasts Peter Broderick and Sylvain Chauveau. Conventionally, the Library Tapes sound has been largely focussed on the various treatments and contexts Wenngren has found for his light, airy keystrokes, and on this latest release, with the assistance of his new friends, he comes up with some incredibly beautiful moments, none more so than the closing 'Fragment VIII', which floats on a bed of slowly bowed strings and a few subtle stereo effects. It's a gently arresting piece of modern ambience and serves as a fitting culmination of Fragment's playlist of emotive song shards and sketched acoustic soundscapes. Long before we arrive at that piece you'll encounter plenty of material to win you over: from the opening mustiness and fake wax cylinder hiss of 'Fragment I' and the layered music box chimes of 'Fragment II' you'll be sucked into the Library Tapes universe almost immediately, and it's never sounded better. Utterly lovely.
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Erik Enocksson - With Its Dark Tail Curled ’Round The Garage (Kning Disk, 2008)

1 Electricity (5:22)
2 The Flames (2:11)
3 (I) (1:31)
4 Think Of Me As The Sea (2:27)
5 The State The Sea Left Her In (3:19)
6 (II) (1:16)
7 Skinnskatteberg (1:43)
8 The Dark (6:31)

Laptop folk aux mélodies simples et répétitives, efficace...

This new mini album from Erik Enocksson follows on from a couple of wonderful releases from the Swedish multi-instrumentalist, writer and producer, namely the film soundtrack Farval Falkenberg and the small but perfectly formed Harsh And Stubborn That River Bends, released on 7". For this latest body of work, Enocksson pens a series of songs and quiet instrumental intervals, collectively clocking in at just under twenty-five minutes. That turns out to be a pretty ideal duration - a perfect length for sustaining the kind of croaky intimacy Enocksson specialises in, something that's particularly effective on 'The Flames', featuring the melancholic trumpet tones of Andreas Soderstrom, or the beautiful Scando-country of 'Think Of Me As The Sea'. The piano ballad 'Skinnskatteberg' finds Enocksson sounding a little like Neil Young, his distressed, Americanised accent capturing just the right level of mournfulness. Only closing track 'The Dark' comes close to breaking the eerie stillness of this record, launching into a surprisingly rollicking drum-fuelled outro in its second half.
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