(Catalogue no. 11077)
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| Title: |
City Open To The Nomad |
| Artist: |
Negative Entropy |
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Label: |
Beta-Lactam Ring |
| Format: |
CD |
| Price: |
€ 15.70 |
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Title Description:
Negative Entropy is a new collaboration between two well established sound artists Michael Prime & Geert Feytons. Michael Prime has a well established solo recording career with many solo releases (on labels such as RRRecords, Sonoris, Digital Narcis, Raft and his own Mycophile label), but has also worked with Organum, Jim O'Rourke and Morphogenesis. Geert Feytons has been involved with his own project Noise-maker's Fifes for about 15 years now with many releases to credit including sound works for theatrical & ballet pieces in Belgium, France and Italy. "City Open to the Nomad" presents the duo with support from Daiske Suzuki (Sire Records, Organum) & Timo Van Luyk (Noise-maker's Fifes), creating extremely evocative experimental soundscapes. These four tracks were performed live at various music festivals and then taken into the studio for editing & remixing. Each track builds with minimal buzzing & beeping sounds and progresses to rich, organic and sonic pieces, centered around backing effects such as shortwave radio, tapes, improvised collages of sampled environmental sounds (most heavily treated beyond recognition) and acoustic & home made instruments being taken to the limit of use. The song titles, such as 'phosphoric water' & 'electric air' attest to the natural sounds utilized in these recordings. Not noise, but complex, textured soundscapes meant to tickle & entice ones tempanic membrane. At times bordering ambient, the songs can suddenly change to electro-acoustic sounds, bordering musique-concrete and back again to minimal/ambient creations. Maybe in comparison to the works of Philip Doray or the early pieces of Pierre Henry in how they sampled natural sounds that were later altered and processed to give a unique and creative look at how those sounds can be manipulated & changed to create a new soundtrack of life, sometimes sounding very harsh- but not noise! A beautiful disk of experimental/improvised electronic music.
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