Rafael Anton Irisarri
Hopes and Past Desires
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.date 2009
.style Ambient
.label IMMUNE
.cat.no. IMMUNE003
.source Vinyl
.type Single
.quality VBRkbps 44.1hz Joint-Stereo
.size 16,1 MB
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The man behind The Sight Below (and, of course, the excellent
Daydreaming album on Miasmah) returns with a gorgeous, limited edition
7" for new Chicago imprint, Immune. The Seattle-dwelling composer teams
up with Dany Norbury for 'Hopes And Past Desires', a mesmerising,
hauntingly beautiful piece of music comprised of exchanges between
muffled electric piano chords and Norbury's otherworldly, reverberant
strings. In terms of its constituent parts this is an incredibly simple
piece of music, but there's magic in these grooves, and Irisarri's music
makes a resoundingly haunting contribution to the realm of
electronic/modern classical composition. Flip over and 'Watching As She
Reels' is suggestive of a more upbeat take on Deaf Center's Pale Ravine,
or perhaps a more minimal Library Tapes; there's a certain sepia-tinted
quality to these sounds, and the whole exercise seems soaked in memory
and a sense of nostalgia (for something or other) that always manages to
avoid outright sentimentality. Absolutely sublime music - pick one up
while you can.
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01 Hopes and Past Desires 04:38
02 Watching as She Reels 07:09
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11:47 min
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