a r t i s t : Heidika
t i t l e : There Is No Cure
d a t e : 2005
l a b e l : Sustain-Release SRL01
g e n r e : Ambient
r l s. d a t e : Apr/2006
t r a c k s : 05
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 30,6 MB
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Format
A 12cm white CDR with handmade card wallet, wrapped in white
crystal organza and bound with an individually numbered brown
paper collar. Cover art by Louise Skelton.
Description
Four tracks of brittle acoustic guitar woven with strands of
digital distortion and haunting violin. The title track
contains a vocal sample of Charlotte Rampling from Liliana
Cavani's The Night Porter.
Terrascope Online Reviews - November 2005 by Simon Lewis
Heidika opens softly, conjuring up the drone of insects under
clear skies, the music pulsating and flowing together the
sounds treated and manipulated without becoming harsh or
meaningless. Track 2 Transmitter becomes more organic in
texture the instruments sounding like water dripping from an
old stone wall, timeless and hypnotic, whilst Gravity Falls
has a gentle drone that slows down the world around.
Surprisingly for an album that lists four tracks and a running
time of 14 minutes, there is a bonus track, which seems to
encompass everything that has gone before, the perfect blend
of melody, subtle drone, and an emotional centre that will
bring you back to the album time and time again.
http://www.terrascope.co.uk/
The Butterfly Crush Review - November 2005 by Peter Millar
With this first release on Heidika a.k.a. Richard Skelton's
Sustain-Release imprint being dedicated in posthumous tribute
to Louise Skelton (1975-2004), one might be forgiven for
expecting elegiac moods from an EP whose leading track is
titled with such a sense of finality.
This is an assumption that is complicated a tad by There Is No
Cure itself; a piece of work that is fiery and
phantasmagorical, compositionally lush and, essentially,
tantalisingly unreadable. As electric opiate-blues guitar
sears slowly like a moonbeam laser into an encircling
nocturnal nebula of a ghostly, computerised Charlotte Rampling
and volatile machinery murmur-and-thrum, you can imagine that
you're hearing one of multiple regenerations of the biology of
Spiritualized's Pure Phase as approximated in a string of
computer code.
Transmitter and Gravity Falls, however, are mournful; both
recordings assembling harshly gleaming digital chambers of
violin-hemmed dark folk threnody. Brooding melodies are played
on acoustic guitars as immaculate and crisp as SimCity meadows
whitened by winter's frost, and on Transmitter there's the
merest suggestion of a human whisper buried deep in the mix.
Last of the four instrumentals is Dyad, somewhat redolent of
Boom Bip's recent Blue Eyed In The Red Room in so far as it
occupies a warm berth of exquisite hothouse-electronics flora
and decelerated ricochets of fuzzy-metal percussion, meaning
that this release terminates with a strikingly less unsolaced
strain of soul-and-circuitry beauty than that which it carries
at its core.
http://crushzine.livejournal.com/
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01-There Is No Cure [03:51]
02-Transmitter [03:50]
03-Gravity Falls [03:41]
04-Dyad [02:28]
05-(Ghost Track) [06:20]
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20:10 min