Friday, January 27, 2023

My ' Collab ' album w/ Wilfried Hanrath - with a title ' Be Here Now ' ( !! ) ( . . . ) . . .

It's Out Now - from the label Attenuation Circuit on a CD-R - in Germany !! Plus a review about it follows below - it's from Vital Weekly !! Some more info from here : - https://emerge.bandcamp.com/album/be-here-now - https://bobanristevski.bandcamp.com/album/be-here-now
WILFRIED HANRATH & BOBAN RISTEVSKI - BE HERE NOW (CDR by Attenuation Circuit) Boban Ristevski seems to have found a steady home with Attenuation Circuit, as many of his recent releases are on this label. Collaborations are his main interest, and if my count is correct, this is the seventh I have heard from him. This time he teams up with Wilfried Hanrath. I heard some of Hanrath's music before, but I don't know enough about him. He plays bass and guitar. Ristveski is, so I believe, a man for all things laptop. I have no idea how things are arranged with these collaborations Ristevski does, but somehow I think he's the one controlling the output. So whatever the other does, Ristevski does extensive processing and mixing. This new release is dedicated to Ram Dass, the LSD psychologist who became a Hindu guru after his trip to India. The release title is from a book he wrote that introduced Eastern spirituality to Western countercultures (I am copying the information here!). Whatever the input was, we no longer hear it anymore. I guess it must be if these are a guitar and bass. These sounds are stretched out to vast drone, hissy and warm, with shorter and rhythmic loops. These are laid out in very minimal terms. Listen superficially; I think the music wants you to do that, and it seems nothing changes. I like to play this kind of music at a quiet volume, slowly filling up the living room. Play it louder, and you'll notice a more industrial undercurrent, which is interesting but doesn't work for me that much on that level. Interestingly the third piece sounded the most guitar-like and raga-like in all its drone-ness. Nice release, once again! (FdW) ––– Address: https://emerge.bandcamp.com/ - http://www.vitalweekly.net/1371.html ( . . . ) . . .

Thursday, January 26, 2023

Out Now in Greece ( !! )

My collab - ' Technological Slavery ' - with Toni Dimitrov is Out Now on a 3"cdr from the greek label - E.C.T. / S.E.C.T. ; Some more info from here : - https://www.discogs.com/release/25348411-Toni-Dimitrov-Boban-Ristevski-Technological-Slavery - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XorKciAA04
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