GRUNDIK + SLAVA - frogs (c) 2005 Topheth Prophet
Artist....: GRUNDIK + SLAVA
Album.....: frogs
Type......: Album
Source....: CDDA
Tracks....: 10
Genre.....: Ambient
Label.....: Topheth Prophet
Catalogue#: tp004
Encoder...: lame 3.97
Quality...: VBR kbps / 44.1kHz / JS
URL.......: http://www.grusla.com
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http://www.njstudio.co.il/tp
Tracklist:
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1. the forest made of rain and frogs [3:13]
2. a frog gets over his fear of water [4:51]
3. the frogs gone away with the wind [1:41]
4. women of rain forest [3:26]
5. one more song about frog [3:35]
6. the woman of the forest and clouds like sheep [3:32]
7. the forest's song for big red [3:46]
8. the old frog's dream [7:11]
9. the travel of water frog to neighbour's forest through the rains [4:0]
10. wet frog getting cold [10:18]
Total:65 MB /
Release Notes:
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with special guests Victoria Hanna, Igor Krutogolov, Chaos As Shelter
Personnel:
G+S: computer, guitar, ocarina, drum machine, theremin, music box, singing bowls, mbira,
field recordings, live electronics etc
Victoria Hanna: vocals on tracks 2,4,6,7,8
Igor Krutogolov: bass guitar on tracks 2,8
Vadim Gusis aka Chaos As Shelter: vargan on tracks 2,8
Composed by Grundik+Slava
Mixed by G+S at New York and Bney-Brak
Mastered by Slava at Bney-Brak
Frog drawing by Slava
Cover design by G+S, Victor Levin, Uri Shaham
Produced by Uri Shaham and Victor Levin
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Note from Grundik+Slava:
“The Frogs” is our most recent project. It is the second
installment in the “Fauna” series coming step after
“…for electronics and birds” (to be released at May'2003 by Stateart
records). As it says in the title this album is dedicated to the
frogs and represent our collaboration with singer Victoria Hanna.
We met Victoria, amazing vocal artist from Jerusalem, a couple of
years ago and from the very first time it was obvious for us that
we'll do something together. We played several concerts of chants
vs. electronics in Israel and USA. One day Victoria sent us a tape
with her vocal improvisations that she has recorded using some of
our casual live recordings as a playback. She wrote: “Do with
that what ever you want”. So we did.
We decided to create a totally new piece from this material.
We used a lot of different techniques: from field environmental
recordings to live electronics, from electroacoustics to pure
synthesizer music, from free noise improvisation to endless drones.
There were no compositional or conceptual limits except one thing:
we tried to reconstruct that amazing feeling of infinite
astonishment that probably Tutuola's palm-wine drinkard felt traveling
to the town of ghosts. Something we felt every time we got together
with Victoria and started to produce sounds.
In the same time one can consider album as an audio book about The Frogs,
their friends – the forest and the clouds, their women, their fears and
their feats.
We would also like to mention and greatly thank our other collaborators:
Vadim Gusis aka Chaos As Shelter and Igor Krutogolov aka Igor18.
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"The music presented here is a carefully unfolding organic adventure
with its background and foreground merging into a single entity, making
each listening equivalent to a trip in wild nature, ranging from the
tribal and eerie to the meditative and relaxing, and with so much
finesse that it can only be partially absorbed on each trip; hence,
remaining fresh with every listen... Frogs is one of the most articulate
electronica offerings I have ever heard, and a must have for anyone
with even a mild interest in avant-garde electronica that is completely
free of commercial considerations."
( Avi Shaked, «Maelstrom Zine», #33, May 2005)