Musical Over Dose
is proud to present
Rls Name : Alphawezen - Comme Vous Voulez
Rls Date : Sep-26-2007
Street Date: Oct-25-2007
Rls Type : Album
Company : mole / interGroove
Genre : Ambient
Source : CDDA
Tracks : 14
Encoder : LAME 3.97 V2: preset standard
Quality : VBRkbps / 44.1kHz / Joint-Stereo
Bitrate : avg. 179kbps
01 Green eyes 03:43
02 gun song 03:15
03 Fim3 (Brigitte Bardot) 06:57
04 days 04:49
05 freeze 05:15
06 out of sight 03:38
07 me optimized 03:27
08 road movie 1 06:30
09 deja vu (vocal version) 06:17
10 rootstrackers 01:40
11 heimat.de 04:27
12 el nino 02:43
13 a thousand tears 05:23
14 doux reves 06:59
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65:03 Min
83,5 MB
The day machines learned how to love, the
satellites careened one last time round the earth
till theyÆd spent all their power, petered out and
burned up in the atmosphere. Things had come full
circle. At the dawn of the 18th century theyÆd
entered the evolutionary arena as a brand new
species. At first, although they soon evinced
creaturely emotions and musical intuition, the
humanoids exploited them as tractable slaves. The
machines û and this is the latest zoologically
accurate designation for this life form û have only
undergone their long overdue emancipation in our
day. Under their nom de guerre ôAlphawezenö, Ernst
Wawra and his singing comrades-in-arms Asu, Verena,
Simone and Fred have already twice demonstrated
their expertise in the weird and wonderful world of
electro-apparatus. Their first two sound carriers,
ôL'AprΦs-Midi d'un Microphoneö and ôEn Passantö,
floated with somnambulistic lightness and poise
over the fertile no-manÆs land between the genres
of trip-hop, house and electropop, hovering over
the fine line between art and kitsch. A typical
Alphawezen recording session is less like a
composerÆs studio session than a conspirative
get-together, replete with elated twitterings and
chirpings, murmured and whispered exchanges of
secrets and piquant remarks. The reward for this
courteous treatment of the machines resonates
through the very first track: ôGreen Eyesö is
possessed of a complex and magical melancholy
peculiar to creatures who, after centuries of
slavery, have at long last been proffered a helping
hand (namely, Mr. WawraÆs nimble-fingered one). The
masterfully interwoven melodies, which have become
hallmarks of AlphawezenÆs music, evoke en passant
delectable scenes in the mindÆs eye of the
attentive listener. In this case itÆs the
iridescent self-abnegating ôtears in rainö that
android replicant Roy Batty talks about so movingly
in the movie Blade Runner. But the forceful string
theme at the close of the piece intimates that some
day the machines might no longer take their
exploitation ôlying downö, as it were. We can only
hope compassionate voices like AsuÆs here will then
assuage their rage: ôHush, hush, let's get lost,ö
she sings, or rather whispers, to us on the second
track, ôGun Songö. And indeed, the strings that
come in again at the end of the song are no longer
marching toward their just cause, but exude a
sighing soulful well-being like that of the Beast
bewitched by its beloved Beauty. Before you yield
yourself up in wonder to the astounding maturity of
WawraÆs menagerie of machines in the serene climes
of the redemptive grand finale hymn ôDoux RΩvesö,
thereÆs a lot to discover û and sometimes even to
smile at. In ôFilm3ö or ôFreezeö, for instance,
Wawra elicits from a very affable specimen of an
old Korg synthesizer the very sweetest of
sound-pearls from the depths of his creaturely
trance. On this third album Alphawezen takes us
through the vast realm between experimentation and
calculated effects, bringing us full circle to the
first album. Since the days of the legendary band
Kraftwerk, many have shown that machines can
produce more than just rhythmically repetitive
booming and thumping. But it wasnÆt till
AlphawezenÆs musical experiments that we learned
that polyphonically intertwined enunciations of
their vitality have the melodic quality and
complexity of 19th-century Italian arias.
Naturally, the next question is what skills this
lovable species needs to learn now to attain at
long last the coveted status of fully-fledged
living beings. The answer is: breathing.
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