ettlz
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Posted: June 02 2008, 14:47 |
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| Quote (Ugo @ June 01 2008, 20:34) | I love this album, even though I don't think it's got anything to do with AoN - Anne Dudley's 'band' tended to build whole pieces on sound collages, here they're just used as soundscapes or as effects - but I love it all the same, because it's got an ethereal, new-agey quality which I absolutely adore. Plus, in some tracks, there are elements of world music (all that ethnic percussion the whole way through the album... absolutely fantastic!!  ) which are unusual in 'contemporary classical music' - this is the way the album is billed on its label's website - but that IMHO work splendidly here. |
Bear in mind what's on the web-site are very short snippets of some rather long tracks, some of which seem to consist entirely of constructions of found sounds and bits of synth. But yes, there is a lot in there. Even bits evocative of Tangerine Dream, Vangelis, MO, the odd bit of trance. Once criticism I might have of the album is that the composer seems to have a frustrating habit of suddenly saying "Right! Next!" and moving on to something else just when it started to get interesting; FR is a very nice audio work, but I wish Livingstone would develop some of his ideas to a proper conclusion. Also the overall structure eludes me (maybe there's not meant to be one), and I think it might've worked even better if it were a "seamless" album without gaps in the soundscaping. (Or is that too early nineties?  )
Sometimes it sounds like a rather exotic soundtrack.
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I actually checked out the composer's website about one minute after I read your original post. 