Christina_Vantzou-No_2-2014-NJS

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2014-03-20

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Artist      : Christina Vantzou
Album       : No. 2
Year        : 2014
Genre       : Ambient
Quality     : 214kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo
Source      : CD
Playtime    : 0h 34m
Size        : 55.90mb
Label       : Kranky
Catalognr   : KRANK186

Tracklist:
01. Anna Mae                                                     2:21
02. Going Backwards To Recover That Which Was Left Behind        4:23
03. Brain Fog                                                    3:33
04. Strange Symptoms                                             1:17
05. Vancouver Island                                             3:31
06. Sister                                                       4:13
07. VHS                                                          4:43
08. Arp                                                          1:50
09. Little Darlin' Seize The Sun                                 2:02
10. Vostok                                                       1:58
11. The Magic Of The Autodidact                                  4:41

Releasenotes:
Developed over a four year period, and entirely funded by a part time job
working as a SAT university entrance exam mathematics tutor, No. 2 was composed
using synthesizers and a variety of unidentified samples that were manipulated
beyond recognition. Christina Vantzou then collaborated with Minna Choi of the
San Francisco based Magik*Magik Orchestra. Vantzou and Choi worked on the
notation and arrangements and recorded the compositions with a 15-piece ensemble
at Tiny Telephone studios in San Francisco. The chamber layer on No. 2 follows a
similar pattern as her first record with the addition of bassoon, oboe, and an
enhanced string section. Vantzou spent four months premixing the album before
Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie (Stars of the Lid / A Winged Victory for the Sullen)
engineered the final mixes, Perhaps a better title for the album would be
"Symphony No. 2" as it was composed as a cohesive whole, much like her first
album "No. 1". Dense layers of strings are augmented by angelic voices, piano,
woodwinds, & various synthesizers. Instrumental music, especially that which is
scored with strings & horns, is invariably described as "Filmic". This is even
more likely when the composer is a Filmmaker such as Christina Vantzou. Welcome
to the future, which luckily for us is filled by a woman's voice with a
beautiful narrative. A recording that is a meeting of personalities is like the
contact of chemical substances: if there is any reaction, all are transformed.

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