ARTiST: Library Tapes
TiTLE: Hostluft
LABEL: Making Mine Music
GENRE: Ambient
TiME: 32:08 min
SiZE: 30,6 MB
BiTRATE: VBRkbps
RiP DATE: Jul-18-2007
RELEASE DATE: Jul-02-2007
WEBSiTE: www.myspace.com/librarytapes
Track List:
01. M÷rker Genom Tomrum 02:10
02. Skiss Av TrΣd 03:55
03. Noslip≤s 02:02
04. Repor 03:53
05. Dis/dagg/dimma 05:26
06. Mellan Ljud Och Text 02:03
07. Skiss Av L÷v 02:45
08. Pjotr 02:56
09. Hostluft 01:50
10. Ensamhet 03:17
11. Distans 01:51
Release Notes:
Library Tapes, the fitting pseudonym of Swedish
feller David Wenngren, has over his last two albums
crafted a distinctive sound that's won him a
sizeable and dedicated audience. Although he's lost
the able talents of previous member Per Jardsall, he
still manages to craft a record which will no doubt
please his followers. Once again we return to the
sounds of aged creaking and clicking piano keys,
recorded to tape or set against crackling, hissing
field recordings to give the illusion of age, the
illusion that you're hearing something that was
discovered deep in a forgotten basement somewhere.
It might sound rather clich'd now with solo piano
recordings coming like machinegun fire, but Wenngren
has a distinctive touch taking influence from Erik
Satie, Goldmund and William Basinski ('Melancholia'
to be exact...) and then re-casting the pieces to
make them totally his own. In fact the crumbling
background noise which is so apparent in his works
becomes just as important to the tracks as the
piano, and the more you get absorbed into this
fizzing and hissing the more you see what Wenngren
is attempting to achieve. What he has done with
'Hostluft' is create a small window into another
world, a short story or a discarded film reel, and
for the duration (a meagre 34 minutes) you are
transported there absolutely. Lovely stuff.