Artist : Aquavoice
Title : Cold
Genre : Ambient
Year : 2008
Date : 05/2008
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 13
Label : Generator GEN CD 002
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 67:34 min
Size : 86,8 MB
Tracklist:
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01.cold 1 02:38
02.cold 2 02:56
03.cold 3 04:46
04.cold 4 03:15
05.cold 5 05:24
06.cold 6 06:18
07.cold 7 09:13
08.cold 8 06:55
09.cold 9 06:35
10.cold 10 07:52
11.cold 11 03:35
12.cold 12 03:21
13.cold 13 04:46
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67:34 min
Calm electronic clouds are forming and gathering slowly. Then
there appear some half-nature, half-electronic sounds. This is
how this enthralling album begins. After a while additional
tonal spheres are to be heard, they are always colored and
layered over one another with a fabulous sense of atmosphere.
We are strolling through a forest and then become entangled in
mysterious green depths; the sounds are on the one hand
doubtless electronic, whilst, on the other hand, they seem to
be so close to nature... Until the end of the third impression
Aquavoice leads us through dreamy landscapes with his gently
flowing, fabulous ambient combined with ambitious, indeed
visually suggestive relaxing music; with the fourth piece,
there comes a slow, majestic ostinato, to which some
melancholic piano chords and fascinating synthetic sparks
ceaselessly cling - if it still be ambient, then only to such
an extent, to which we are dealing with this genre in Klaus
Schulze's "Blanche".
Weird, murky, jarring fifth miniature puts an end to the
dominating becalming mood, but in the final part it brings some
very soft woven, optimistic chords, distorted through such
surrealistic filters as those appearing in Sylvie Marks' "Baby
I'm Electric". Until the very end of the album we are
surrounded with a slightly-electronized piano-contemplative
mood, softly and yet interesting intermingling with recurring
nature sounds and additional tonal sweeps which enlarge the
room to feel this music.
One may obviously recognize influences of Harold Budd, Brian
Eno, Tetsu Inoue (especially on the splendid twelfth track!) as
well as those of Michael Stearns and even (the utmost
contemplative) Kitaro; Aquavoice manages nonetheless to serve
all his musical ideas in a fresh, fascinating and, last but not
least, convincing way.
"Cold" is a very specific, soothing and nevertheless
challenging and even disturbing variety of ambient music,
whereby Aquavoice uses tonal systems which are characteristic
also for other sophisticated - and not so abstract - electronic
genres.
All in all, this is a highly recommended album.
Review from: http://www.groove.nl/cd/5/50323.html