Artist : Mokira
Title : Persona
Genre : Ambient
Year : 2009
Date : 05/29/2009
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 07
Label : Type Records
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 53:13 min
Size : 63,9 MB
Tracklist:
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01.About Last Step And Scale 10:34
02.Lord, Am I Going Down ? 07:39
03.When The Sun Hits/The House Hit 05:25
04.Valla Torg Kraut 10:48
05.Oscillations And Tremolo 09:45
06.Ode To The Ode To The Street Hassle 02:10
07.Invitation To Love 06:52
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53:13 min
ItÆs hard to believe that five years have passed since the
release of æAlbumÆ, Andreas TillianderÆs first outing on the
Type label. æAlbumÆ marked the final stage in AndreasÆs
development as a ælaptopÆ artist and since then he has
collected synthesizer upon synthesizer and enough tape to make
the boys in Berlin jealous. Ditching the zeroes and ones,
Andreas set about piecing together a follow-up to æAlbumÆ and
constructing it entirely in the analogue realm; the warming
hiss of tape, the decomposing buzz of a monosynth and the
nostalgic twitch of the Roland TB303.
There might be a love of all things æKosmicheÆ once more, but
it would be facile to label æPersonaÆ as such. Sure Andreas has
heard his fair share of Cluster and Harmonia records, but his
sound is just as rooted in psychedelic rock and even Basic
Channel-era dub techno as Germanic ambience. Just listen to the
thick, pulsating ode to Spacemen 3 æOscillations and TremoloÆ
and you quickly realise that you are not merely listening to
æanotherÆ synthesizer album. Half-heard rhythms and familiar
TB303 bass pulses drag us in and out of a hinted-at Basic
Channel-axis production on æValla Torg KrautÆ while a
fairground jangle drives us through æOde to the Ode to the
Street HassleÆ. Something in there is blissful, almost
beautiful, but it is hidden below thick layers of tape hiss and
crumbling circuit boards.
æPersonaÆ is a mature, confident and engaging experience - the
product of a veteran electronic musician producing music that
comes naturally to him. As the Ingmar Bergman film of the same
name suggests, it might be Andreas TillianderÆs most revealing
record to date. A stunning collection of modern electronic
music.
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