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SAMARTZIS, PHILIP / KOZO INADA - H [ ]

Format: maxi-CD Label & Cat.Number: Room 40 EDRM 406 Release Year: 2006 Note: meditative (Austro-Japanese) collaboration merging field recordings and smooth electronics....very nice ! "Ambient is everywhere today, silence is music, and found recordings are a new source of rhythm and structure.." [Foxy Digitalis] back in stock ! Price (incl. 19% VAT): €11.50 More Info "Australian electro-acoustic composer Philip Samartzis is an increasingly vital presence in the Australian sound community. His work over the past decade and a half has offered a prophetic vision for each of his chosen formats and aesthetic approaches. On h [ ] Samartzis is joined by minimal Japanese composer Kozo Inada, who brings with him an equally refined and austere sound sensibility. Between them, these two composers collaborate to produce a highly detailed work that juxtaposes, obscures and ultimately unites pure electronics with environmental recordings. These elements are set to work against and within one another, the results causing the listener to reconsider which sounds are emanating from the interwoven tapestry of source materials. Celebrating the rich tradition of acousmatic sound and musique concréte, this composition provides a potent reminder of the potentials of sound as a transformative and (imagined) narrative medium." [press release] ".....Electronic and environmental sounds are manipulated, at times flowing into one another, other times providing a jarring contrast. The trance produced is both meditative and playful, as if implying that any mix of source materials can be both united and broken apart, and still work as a sustained groove. Though obviously composed in sections, with some improvised links, this is a piece that needs to be swallowed whole, as it was ultimately constructed to be whole, despite its sonic dualism. Ambient is everywhere today, silence is music, and found recordings are a new source of rhythm and structure. While this has made for a lot of redundant shit—malaise is not ambient—Samartzis, solo and in collaboration, has been one the best at using all sounds to create a new harmonic vocabulary. Here, his ideas work with and around those of Inada to create a rich, deep piece. 10/10 " [Mike Wood / Foxy Digitalis]