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RUCHALSKI, EDWARD - Dark Night

Format: CD-R Label & Cat.Number: AFE Records afe090lcd Release Year: 2007 Note: oversized full-colour / fold-out cardboard cover / lim. 100 copies Price (incl. 19% VAT): €13.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info Wiederveröffentlichung dieses ebenfalls sehr hörenswerten RUCHALSKI-Albums von 2004, fliessende & warme Klänge generiert aus Wasser, Klangschalen, Piano... dream-ambience... "....The first edition of "Dark Night" was released on Foxy Digitalis back in 2004 and is probably one of Ruchalski most well-balanced works. The following description is a long excerpt taken from a review of the original edition written by Steve Rybicki, the original page with the complete review is available here. We really couldn't find a more appropriate way to describe this intense and beautiful album. "Close your eyes and try to imagine yourself as a child on a farm nestled in a bucolic New England valley. It is late, but you cannot sleep. As you listen to the sounds of the night, you might hear the restless nocturnal piano tinkling of your insomniac older sister from the parlor downstairs, or the sonorous tolling of the grandfather clock just down the hall from your room stolidly announcing the passage of time. Turning your attention away from whatever lurks in the dark corners to the open window beside your bed, you might hear the red shifted whistles of freight trains rumbling by, or the whisper of a sprinkler tapping out its watery arc. Fog banks roll across the pastures so dense that although they should be silent, they have almost willed themselves a voice capable of eerily wailing their whispered name into your ears. Welcome to the ever-maturing world of Edward Ruchalski. The audio portrait your mind has "visualized" is Ruchalski’s latest release "Dark Night". The disc begins with a swelling ringing drone that rolls and sways like wheat in a gentle breeze. Over this lulling undulation one can hear the whistles of distant trains passing by. The second track marries lightly stroked piano with resonating bells and chimes that are overshadowed briefly by screeching harmonics of bowed metal before the mournful cry of the train whistle returns. Underneath this swell, the steady insistent sweep of a sprinkler hovers into range Over the next several parts of the piece, these basic elements are manipulated and modulated expertly to build a narrative in which individual events can be discerned (the slightly spooky piano figure from "Part Three", the "clock" striking the hour in the middle of "Part Four") but never interrupt the leisurely movement of the whole. As "Part Five" begins with gently plucked guitar frames chiming bells, one can easily picture the easy harmony of an elemental duet between a solitary farmhouse occupant and the wind chimes on the back porch. It is the first hint that acceptance and peace can be attained even amidst the turbulence of nocturnal noises. Once the delicate piano chords at the start of "Part Six" have been swallowed by gamelan-like echoic bells, a babbling brook emerges as the underpinning for Rebecca Klossner’s "singing bowls". The presence of unfettered water (as opposed to its earlier appearance in sprinkler directed form) is emblematic of the softening the piece has undergone over its length. The final "Part Eight" breaks like dawn illuminating the previous evening’s sinister room corners as merely an innocuous and essential meeting place for the walls of home." The graphics of "Dark Night" are based on a picture taken by Paolo Ippoliti of Logoplasm." [label info] www.aferecords.com