a r t i s t : M. Roesner
t i t l e : Morning Tones
d a t e : 2006
l a b e l : Apestaartje
c a t : staartje 020
s o u r c e : CDDA
g e n r e : Ambient
r l s. d a t e : Feb/2008
t r a c k s : 06
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 44,6 MB
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We do love New York's Apestaartje label, falling somewhere
inbetween the digital sincerity of 12K and the organic
loveliness of Kranky, they managed to wow ears in the last
couple of years with the gorgeous Mountains project and now
they're back with an album from M. R÷sner. R÷sner's second
disc after the wonderful 'Alluvial' for Aussie label Room40,
this takes his sound further into the extremes of shimmering
acoustic beauty and stomach wobbling tones. Those of you who
are familiar with Oren Ambarchi's seminal 'Grapes from the
Estate' album will no doubt know what I'm talking about here,
and R÷sner has a similar gift in that he can blend pure
digital tone structures with simple plucked acoustic guitar,
field recordings and washed out percussion. 'Morning Tones' is
a meeting of the digital and the acoustic, and the exchange is
tense, gripping and somewhat awkward. The two different worlds
are initially at odds and the sound at first can jar, but a
few minutes in and you'll wonder why they were ever split -
they just make perfect sense together. I suppose this
interplay will become more and more common now that musicians
are finally getting to grips with using computers and digital
processing in a much more musical manner. The computer has now
become a musical instrument and R÷sner has clearly developed
great skill in playing it. Across the album he shows how he
can trawl through Eno-esque calm with 'Comber', almost
Kraut-rock style sensationalism on 'Morning Tones' and
menacing drone with 'Dissolve', giving the album a defiant
breadth of style to play with. In fact I could compare
'Morning Tones' with Keith Fullerton Whitman's crucial
'Multiples' in the way that it skates from composition to
composition each time mastering a different part of
electro-acoustic music. The album is a simply marvellous
collection of shattered musical visions, and another fabulous
addition to the Apestaartje catalogue. Highly recommended.
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01-Kobenhavvn [07:12]
02-Morning Tones [09:37]
03-Rippled [04:21]
04-Comber [05:56]
05-Sift [05:06]
06-Dissolve [09:38]
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41:50 min