The Nevermet Ensemble - Quarto Escuro
ARTIST........: The Nevermet Ensemble
TITLE.........: Quarto Escuro
LABEL.........: Rudimentol
URL...........: http://www.rudimentol.com/nevermet.html
GENRE.........: Avantgarde
QUALITY:......: 201 kbps avg/ 44100Hz / Joint Stereo
RIP DATE......: 2005-11-26
RELEASE DATE..: 2005-00-00
Tracklist:
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01. Une Minute 1:00
02. The Straw 4:28
03. Brazen Whispers 4:46
04. Gastrix Reloaded 1:59
05. Insomniac Chronicles 3:24
06. Paura 4:05
07. O Passado 2:56
08. Ocho Fracturas 0:08
09. Joguki Mimi 7:33
10. Complicazioni 2:51
11. Onze 11:00
12. (untitled) 3:25
Total 47:35
Release Notes:
The musicians never met. They don't even know each other. Recordings were sent
by mail from Belgium, France, Italy, Japan, Spain and the United States, to be
mixed in a small room in Lisbon, Portugal.
Alex Temple: synthesizers, effects, sampler, noise.
Brekekekexkoaxkoax (Josh Ronsen): clarinet, ring modulator, field recordings.
Emmanuel Ferrand: organs, synthesizers, circuit bendings, effects, found
footages, electric guitar, field recordings, objects.
Godfried-Willem Raes: (Automats) ½Vibi╗, ½Troms╗, ½Piperola╗, ½Harma╗, ½Player
Piano╗.
Miguel Cabral: voice, violin, flute, ½saxoo╗, drums, percussion, organs,
mandolin, guitars, tape recorder, accordion, piano, objects.
Paco Balbuena & Remedios Ayala: computer, effects, audio manipulations,
percussion, field recordings, found footages, piano, radio.
Phobode (Giuseppe Mileti): computer and sounds manipulation.
Tetsuro Yoshimitsu: radio waves, radio recordings.
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½Portuguese label Rudimentol is the place where experimental music can be
directed to the future even while being influenced from the past. This peculiar
work, elaborated via mail by musicians that don't know each other (hence the
project name), mixes echoes of progressive rock a la Van Der Graaf Generator,
random acoustic procedures, space music and convergences of strange oscillations
with carillon-like lazy melodies. It's a disorienting pot pourri where an
African kalimba, a distorted guitar power chord and the singing of a little baby
can be in unpredictable succession with orchestral samples reverberating like if
played in a giant tank, all of this suddenly voided by a low frequency hum.
Besides Miguel Cabral - head of the label - the only involved artists that I
knew before are Godfried-Willem Raes and Josh Ronsen, but make no mistake: this
is an extremely pleasant concoction.╗
Massimo Ricci, in Touching Extremes