MEM — It was a very good year
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MEM ist das neue Projekt von Kamil Antosiewicz, der vorher bei beim jetzt aufgelösten polnischen Trio EA aktiv war. Er transformiert hier den 60er Jahre Hit “It was a very good year” in sehr lichte, stehende Klangwellen, in denen schnell-wallende Mikrobewegen vorherrschen... minimale Hypnomusik ! Fabrik-CD zum special price!
“ The newest Alluvial release is a bit of a departure from many of our past releases. It is perhaps more in line with our Kuwayama-Kijima compact disc from earlier this year. Mem is one Kamil Antosiewicz from Warsaw. Kamil existed in a previous incarnation as one third of
the now defunct Polish trio, EA. Mem’s work typically attempts to link sonic anomalies with electronics. His most recent interests include the decontextualisation of sound material. He is currently experimenting with primal structures of non-organic origin, such as white noise and sine waves, and melding them into sounds of organic nature. He works mainly with a PC platform. On “It Was A Very Good Year”, Mem takes source material from perhaps the most
popular version of a standard American classic of the same title from the early 1960’s. Mem uses isolated sections of string sounds from a big band orchestra and draws them out into slowly cascading layers. We hear humming, vibrating, drawn out drones that build very slowly into a massive crescendo of noise that eventually include others sounds from the orchestra. Many of the sounds are manipulated, but nothing outside the original recorded version is added. The piece results in a stunningly beautiful hour with hypnotic qualities that build in giant ebbs and flows. As a point reference, this is reminiscent of some of the best work from Charlemagne Palestine and Vidna Obmana. In addition to his work as a composer, Kamil runs the Salvia Association with Viön, and formerly worked as a music journalist and cyberculture writer-editor for the first Polish internet magazine titled "WWW". Mem and related: www.vion.pl“ [press release]
“ The newest Alluvial release is a bit of a departure from many of our past releases. It is perhaps more in line with our Kuwayama-Kijima compact disc from earlier this year. Mem is one Kamil Antosiewicz from Warsaw. Kamil existed in a previous incarnation as one third of
the now defunct Polish trio, EA. Mem’s work typically attempts to link sonic anomalies with electronics. His most recent interests include the decontextualisation of sound material. He is currently experimenting with primal structures of non-organic origin, such as white noise and sine waves, and melding them into sounds of organic nature. He works mainly with a PC platform. On “It Was A Very Good Year”, Mem takes source material from perhaps the most
popular version of a standard American classic of the same title from the early 1960’s. Mem uses isolated sections of string sounds from a big band orchestra and draws them out into slowly cascading layers. We hear humming, vibrating, drawn out drones that build very slowly into a massive crescendo of noise that eventually include others sounds from the orchestra. Many of the sounds are manipulated, but nothing outside the original recorded version is added. The piece results in a stunningly beautiful hour with hypnotic qualities that build in giant ebbs and flows. As a point reference, this is reminiscent of some of the best work from Charlemagne Palestine and Vidna Obmana. In addition to his work as a composer, Kamil runs the Salvia Association with Viön, and formerly worked as a music journalist and cyberculture writer-editor for the first Polish internet magazine titled "WWW". Mem and related: www.vion.pl“ [press release]