Artist : VA
Title : 12K Sampler 002
Genre : Electronic
Year : 2011
Date : 10/2011
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 12
Label : 12k
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.98.4
Length : 65:08 min
Size : 105,1 MB
Tracklist:
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01.The Boats - The Ballad Of Failure 05:45
02.Kane Ikin - Contrail 06:26
03.Savvas Ysatis and Taylor Deupree - 03:34
Cloister
04.Illuha - Saika 05:54
05.Taylor Deupree and Marcus Fischer - 06:01
In A Place Such Graceful Shapes
06.Kennet Kirschner - January 18, 2011 05:49
07.MOSS - Moss 06:23
08.Fourcolor - Iris Familiar 04:59
(feat. Moskitoo)
09.Stephan Mathieu - Schwarzschild Radius 05:18
10.Marcus Fischer - Cascadia Obscura 05:40
11.Seaworthy and Matt Roesner - Meroo 03:52
Lake
12.Murralin Lane - When I Told You 05:27
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65:08 min
The second 12k sampler CD features 12
songs chronologically looking forward to
early 2012 and back to the recent
releases and clocks in at over 60
minutes. It offers a sneak-peak at
upcoming music plus a re-cap of the past
year. The CD is being sold for only $4/
$6 (USA/INT'L respectively) and that
includes shipping. It's an inexpensive
way to familiarize yourself with the
latest on 12k.
12k welcomes two new artists to the
roster: The Boats (UK) bring their
electro-acoustics into song-structured
territory with vocals and a rhythm
section not often heard in the 12k camp.
Illuha (JP) create incredibly tactile,
textural music. Their debut CD Shizuku
(release October 18, 2011) was recorded
in a church in Washington state whose
acoustics provide a beautiful spatial
quality to their multi-instrumental
music. Kane Ikin is a 12k veteran,
though not under his own name. HeÆs one
half of Solo Andata and his solo debut
on 12k will come in the form of a 7ö
with extra digital-only tracks. Deep,
dark and melodic stuff.
Label owner Taylor Deupree (US) surfaces
with two collaborations: one with long-
time cohort Savvas Ysatis (GR); this
time they use nothing but analog
synthesizers and reel to reel tape to
create an incredibly layered wall of
melodic air. The other collaboration is
with one of 12kÆs newest and most loved
artists Marcus Fischer (US). Their duo
culminated in one of 12kÆs most
ambitious releases to date: a boxed set
containing a CD, 7ö and booklet of
photos all carefully crafted and
designed. Fischer also makes an
appearance on the sampler with a track
from his Monocoastal CD which sold out
only a few short weeks after its
release.
Two very long-form releases appear as
excerpts on Sampler 002: one of the four
tracks on Kenneth KirschnerÆs (US) epic
3-CD set Twenty Ten appears here in all
of its decay and beauty and Moss (US) (a
quartet consisting of Molly Berg, Olivia
Block, Steve Roden and Stephen
Vitiello), a subtle work for clarinet
and live instrumentation captured during
a live performance also in a church with
its wooden interior providing the
perfect acoustic setting.
Long-time 12k roster member and favorite
FourColor (JP) shows off his talents as
a guitar maniuplator with ôIris
Familiarö which features the breathy vox
of 12kÆs Sanae Yamasaki, also known as
Moskitoo. And, the well-known Stephan
Mathieu (DE) turns old 78rpm records
into tonal drones that crackle with
complexity and fragility.
The sampler nears the end with a
delicate field study of Seaworthy + Matt
R÷sner (AU) who set up a small studio in
a cabin while exploring and recording
two lakes in the Australian countryside.
Their gentle guitar and electronics
blend as one with the expansive nature
that surrounded them.
Finally, Murralin Lane (SE) round out
the disc with their distressed but
beautiful ôWhen I Told Youö whose grainy
melodies and vocals are stretched on the
edge of tension hauntingly lingering
until the last seconds of sound fade
from the speakers.
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