(Catalogue no. 13083)
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| Title: |
Bees and Honey |
| Artist: |
Andrey Kiritchenko |
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Label: |
Zeromoon |
| Format: |
CD |
| Price: |
€ 12.50 |
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Title Description:
Five tracks by Andrey Kiritchenko, followed by remixes from Brian Lavelle, Marcus
Maeder, Scanner, 833-45, Kotra, Violet, The Moglass, Kim Cascone, Cray,
Freiband. Zero003
Track information:
Bees and Honey - Five works by Andrey Kiritchenko
1.moonshine
2.suntouch
3.bee scattered
4.hive
5.flowers and fields
Bees and Honey - remixes/reworks:
6.brian lavelle: hymenopteran
7.marcus maeder: suntouch
8.scanner: scannermx
9.833-45: cryptic invic
10.kotra: colour
11.violet: woman with splited head with tramvay
12.the moglass: moontouch
13.kim cascone: dead world
14.cray: moonshinermx56
15.freiband: sigmet mix
Vital Review:
ANDREY KIRITCHENKO - BEES & HONEY (CD by Zeromoon)
Now this is a really clever move: not so well-known artist releases
CD and to pitch sales he asks more well-known artists to send in
remixes of the material to be released.......This commercial angle
notwithstanding, Kiritchenko's tracks (being the first five on the
disc) are not at all bad and they deserve the attention and the
company. I think his music can be described as ambient glitch:
washing sounds and clicks 'n cuts on top. The atmosphere is pretty
relaxed but has a certain depth, so as not to get boring. There is an
interesting interplay between the sounds in the back- and foreground,
creating a rich texture of electronics. After the first three short
tracks there are two longer ones, track four a gradually changing
drony piece and track five an almost melodic one (the track titles
suggest a concept album, btw). So, onwards to the remixes: the first
is by Brian Lavelle, a very light affair with tremendous space,
sounds approaching slowly. Very subtle work, very well done. Next up
is Marcus Maeder with a very good piece, based on the second track.
It moves from atmosphere to atmosphere in a quiet but steady fashion
and has been put together very carefully. Scanner is next with a work
that is surprisingly exciting: a piece that gets denser over time
before it closes in a quiet manner. 833-45 is a name (?) I have never
heard before (maybe because it doesn't seem to cling to my grey
cells) and that is a shame because the track they present here is
just as good as the others so far. This one is the first with an
overt rhythm and that seems to be the only problem with it: there is
not enough happening twith this rhythm to keep it strong for the
whole duration of the track. Other than that it's a piece with a very
good sound texture andf a lot to listen to. Kotra is another unknown
name (to me) and is the second one with a certain rhythm: a steady
pulse is the basis under the first part of the track, then a break
and the track seems to get lost a little until the beat returns.
Violet are doing some heavy distorting in their remix (it makes me
wonder if this is a remix at all....). Sounds do not seem to stem
from Kiritchenko's tracks but are field recordings with some
electronics on top (that's probably Kiritchenko's material then). A
very interesting and exciting piece, because it combines these two
different sound worlds. Well done. The Moglass seem to work in a
somewhat similar way as Violet, but a lot more subdued and with a lot
more FX added. At some points one is even able to hear voice and
instruments. This is the most psychedelic track so far. Kim Gascone
is next, with a track consisting mainly of hisses of all kinds and a
variety of clicks. This is a pretty ethereal piece, inducing a
somewhat lost state of mind (which seems to fit to the title 'Dead
World' ...). Cray's Moonshinermx 56 seems to be a more or less live
manipulation of the original material, using digital means to do so.
It sort of gets stuck in this manipulation and doesn't develop into a
real piece which is a shame, because there is potential here,
certainly in the sounds. Last one is Freiband with an extremely
electronic remix, reducing the original material to shreds of what it
was and therewith building a very dense track of power electronics,
only not so loud...Then ending with a very nice tone. As a conclusion
I would like to say that this disc is without doubt a very good
collection of contemporary 'ambient glitch'. Kiritchenko fits into
this category very well and has placed himself accordingly with this
CD. And rightly so, I might add. A good release. (MR)
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