RABELAIS, AKIRA — Spellewauerynsherde
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Mit grosser Überraschung entdeckten wir kürzlich auf DAVID SYLVIANS Label dieses Album des amerikanischen Komponisten.
SPELLEWAUERYNSHERDE enthält sanft gesungene isländische Acapella-Folklore als Klangquellen, die RABELAIS gekonnt effektiert und schichtet, so dass anrührende & hoch-emotionale Gänsehaut-Stücke entstehen, mitunter löst sich alles in choralen Hallsphären auf. Traurig-schön und melancholisch-verzaubernd, dazu poetisches Textgut von RABELAIS, ein echtes Highlight. Unsere wärmste Empfehlung !
“Latest release on David Sylvian's Samadhi label, Akira Rabelais works with found sounds, taped field recording of traditional Icelandic acapella lament songs recorded in the 1960s & 70s lost until recently. Their sounds of sorrow were the inspiration for a series of compositions, creating a matrix of voice, weaving the voices into a dissolving tapestry of expression.” [label info]
“A tapestry of frail shards. Elliptical voices of ghostly presences are put under a lens that reiterates their silent cry rather than magnifying it; in the darkness of anachronism this swollen river of gliding sadness is barely visible. Old melodies standing inconspicuously behind our ability of comprehension, fragments of ancient knowledge we'll never be able to share, hard as we try. Possessiveness is left behind; we must learn a new language, which is silence itself, as only the silence solicited by many useless words is the right answer to the sourness of mechanical thought. Akira Rabelais tried to start reasoning about the signals sent by these distant calls and found a new way to show their ancestral beauty; we can only reap the fruits of such a homogeneous effort, just grateful of that handful of vocal embodiments smiling at us from nowhere.” [Massimo Richi / Touching Extremes]
"Spellewauerynsherde breathes sublimity through your CD player circuits.” [The Wire]
SPELLEWAUERYNSHERDE enthält sanft gesungene isländische Acapella-Folklore als Klangquellen, die RABELAIS gekonnt effektiert und schichtet, so dass anrührende & hoch-emotionale Gänsehaut-Stücke entstehen, mitunter löst sich alles in choralen Hallsphären auf. Traurig-schön und melancholisch-verzaubernd, dazu poetisches Textgut von RABELAIS, ein echtes Highlight. Unsere wärmste Empfehlung !
“Latest release on David Sylvian's Samadhi label, Akira Rabelais works with found sounds, taped field recording of traditional Icelandic acapella lament songs recorded in the 1960s & 70s lost until recently. Their sounds of sorrow were the inspiration for a series of compositions, creating a matrix of voice, weaving the voices into a dissolving tapestry of expression.” [label info]
“A tapestry of frail shards. Elliptical voices of ghostly presences are put under a lens that reiterates their silent cry rather than magnifying it; in the darkness of anachronism this swollen river of gliding sadness is barely visible. Old melodies standing inconspicuously behind our ability of comprehension, fragments of ancient knowledge we'll never be able to share, hard as we try. Possessiveness is left behind; we must learn a new language, which is silence itself, as only the silence solicited by many useless words is the right answer to the sourness of mechanical thought. Akira Rabelais tried to start reasoning about the signals sent by these distant calls and found a new way to show their ancestral beauty; we can only reap the fruits of such a homogeneous effort, just grateful of that handful of vocal embodiments smiling at us from nowhere.” [Massimo Richi / Touching Extremes]
"Spellewauerynsherde breathes sublimity through your CD player circuits.” [The Wire]