Monday, September 12, 2022

My ' Collab ' album w/ Claus Poulsen ( !! ) ( . . . ) . . .

It's Out Now from the label - Love Earth Music ( http://www.loveearthmusic.com/ ). Plus a review about it follows - it's from Vital Weekly. Some more info from here - https://hardlistening.bandcamp.com/album/the-catcher-in-the-rye
CLAUS POULSEN & BOBAN RISTEVSKI - THE CATCHER IN THE RYE (CDR by Love Earth Music) In my little, non-existing book of labels, I have Love Earth Music down as 'mostly a noise label', but the release by Claus Poulsen and Boban Ristevski is certainly not noise at all. The first I know from his many solo releases and collaborations, with the second working his butt off, now he's back on track with computer manipulated sounds. We are kept in the dark about the basics of this release, who does what and such. Maybe we don't always need to know. The result is what counts, and like much of Ristevski's recent material, I enjoy this a lot. My uneducated guess would be that he treats sound material delivered by Poulsen and does that in his usual ambient industrial manner. There is a highly delicate process with the sound material, reshaping the material into small particles, buzzing and zooming. In 'The Catcher 1', this stays on a slightly more abstract side of things, but in the other three pieces, it all leans more towards the musical side. In 'The Catcher 2', for instance, a sort of repeating, broken rhythm machine amplifying all the sounds from the machine. We get four pieces, from almost eight to almost twelve minutes, and they are all equally great, and, sadly, at thirty-eight minutes, a bit too short for my taste. In the current flow of releases by Ristevski another great one, with a slight change of scenery. (FdW) - http://www.vitalweekly.net/1351.html

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