With her new album ‘In The Light Of Air’, Anne Thorvaldsdottir once again shows that she is one of the most innovative contemporary composers, and has developed a style that is almost immediately recognisable. And unmistakeably Icelandic in nature.
Soundtracks are hot. And quite a lot of them border on ‘ambient’ music because of their inherent atmospherics. Or on ‘post-classical’ music because of their instrumental arrangements.
‘The Revenant’ combines the best of both worlds!
Autistici (David Newman) and Justin Varis present eight ‘synaesthetic’ interpretations of various colours.
They are completed with another eight remixes from different artists that seem put the colours in the perspective of their surrounding landscapes.
Together, these two cd’s are a truely caleidoscopic collection!
A few compilations to start the year with: well- and lesserknown artists, a lot of unreleased material, and most of them offered as a free download too!
Polish composer Olga Wojchiechowska showcases her an impressive works for theatre, dance and film productions; Quiet Horn explores different looping setups constructed from the sound of the trombone.
Tristan Perich closes this ‘Composition’ series with an amazing composition for 10 violins and 10-channel 1-bit sounds.
And last but certainly not least Edu Comelles compositions for ‘Agost’ are based on the single sound of rubbing a glass of wine.
Joe Evans explores the relation between the Elements, the states of Matter and musical Intervals;
Mark Harris dreams of being alone in a forest at night;
Max Würden releases two titles simultaneously: one on Wolfgang Voigt’s Exponate series and one for reading Sci-Fi books.
Various artists remix the original tracks – with remarkable results!
Marilli Remixed is a collection or remixes from Michel Banabila’s debut album “Marilli” (1984) – an album that Banabila cosiders ‘too embarassing naive’ to re-release. The remixes prove there’s nothing to be ashamed of…
Music about The Sun’s Orbit (Aidan Baker), Earth’s collision with Theia (Markus Guentner) via the shores of Spain (David Cordero) into the microcosmic space between sounds (Autistici).
And suddenly, without any warning, there’s good news from the ever-enigmaticAkira Rabelais:
His entire back-catalogue is now available on Bandcamp – which is good news because most of these title were unavailable for a long time now.
And at the same time a new album is released: The Little Glass (available in digital as well as in physical format).
A good opportunity to re-visit the 2006 Spelle Special Radio Show, featuring music from Spelle…, some remixes, ánd exclusive unreleased material especially submitted by Akira Rabelais for this occasion!
