ARTIST: Baja
TITLE: Wolfhour
LABEL: Other-Electricities
GENRE: Electronic
BITRATE: 186kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 46m total
RELEASE DATE: 2008-01-22
RIP DATE: 2007-12-10
Track List
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1. Meth Arrow 3:43
2. The Veau 5:03
3. Wolfhour 2:53
4. Phrem 10:06
5. Go Wolpertinger! Go! 4:38
6. Djilas Plus 5:36
7. Bous Makel 6:25
8. Return To Anthol (Ghosts In 4:19
Denial)
9. Paperblades & Ponytails 4:00
Release Notes:
Daniel Vujanic's third full-length release under the alias Baja, entitled
Wolfhour, intensively displays the composer/musician's exciting approach towards
a "free electronica" genre. Baja incorporates organic and digital textures,
intuitive forms of songwriting, dynamic and almost classic-like complexity and -
Vujanic's trademark - the manic and seemingly endless processing, editing and
re-editing of the source material until it eventually becomes a wall of sound; a
beautifully radiating, fractured, multifaceted digital isotope. Disregarding
traditional song structures, BajaÆs arrangements are duplicitous to the
listener, evading predictability of their beginning or end points.
Fusing stripped-down folk, (free-)jazz, twisted pop, electroacoustic sound,
maximized- minimalism, indietronics, eerie chamber music and a portion of
sedative textures, Wolfhour plays with postmodern expectations as much as
possible while avoiding pretentious, highbrow implications. There's at least as
much ear-friendly repetition as there is stunning fragmentation. Vujanic's
compositions range from psychedelic piano ambience to sunny uptempo-pop, from
electronic jazz fusion to cryptic sample ruins. Leitmotifs appear, evolve and
fall apart into transcribed bits of data nebula. Sounds teleport.