Drone Records

SONOLOGYST - Phantoms

Format: CD

Label & Cat.Number: Unexplained Sounds Group USG054

Release Year: 2019

Note: "PHANTOMS" is by far not the classic dark ambient album, here a big amount of sometimes strange and fragile field recordings merges with selfmade instrumental recordings and electronic arrangements, for a ghostlike trip... "Dreamlike mental landscape of nonsensical memories, a metamorphic passage from the blackness, the shadows of a lost beauty. Everything frozen in the stillness of phantom recordings." - very lim. CD edition (digipak) of 150 copies

Price (incl. 19% VAT): €13.00

More Info

https://sonologyst.bandcamp.com/album/phantoms

Voices of children in a park, people playing a handball game, dogs barking, a man talking of philosophy, a demon lurking in a dark corner. Dreamlike mental landscape of nonsensical memories, a metamorphic passage from the blackness, the shadows of a lost beauty. Everything frozen in the stillness of phantom recordings.

Recordings by SONOLOGYST
Sound Design, Turntables, Trumpet, Azzax, Voice.

"The previous release by Raffaele Pezzella, also known as Sonologyst had "Silencers, usually
known as Men In Black" as a sort of theme (see Vital Weekly 1134). I'm not sure if there is an
overall thematic approach on 'Phantoms', other than some ghostly activity. Originally inspired by modern classical composers (Stockhausen, Henry, Ferrari, Subotnick, Nono, Pousseur,
Parmegiani and Maderna), Sonologyst's music has not much to do with that, certainly not on
this new one. The previous sounded a bit more improvised than before, with a violin playing an
important role, here the sound sources are "turntables, trumpet, azzax (which is an "electrified cymbal that I play with wooden or Plexiglas sticks”), voice and sound design". I recognized some of the turntables already, with its crackling sounds, but it has not the meaning lead. Like before, Sonologyst music has a great soundtrack-like quality to it, and this time it is the phantom in the attic movie. The voice (by Pezzella? By others? I don't know) doesn't sing or speak, but it is rather more along the lines of making sounds that have emotions; crying or shouting, but in a controlled manner, and it is not featured in all pieces. The music has a sort of improvised feel to it, again, but these recordings have been overlaid, edited, and are presented as collages of sound. In that way,
it owes to the world of musique concrete, perhaps also because of the vinyl used and what seems to be field recordings, and less to the world of improvised music, as found on his previous release. In these pieces, he offers quite some variety and in each of them, he explores the sounds in a fine collage form. The music is not shy for a bit of noise here and there and it that respect owes to the world of classic industrial music, but Sonologyst is capable of keep matters interesting and above
all varied." [FdW/Vital Weekly]

––– Address: https://sonologyst.bandcamp.com/