a r t i s t : Freiband And Machinefabriek
t i t l e : OAHU
d a t e : 2008
l a b e l : Low Point
c a t : LP019
s o u r c e : CDDA
g e n r e : Ambient/Minimal/Experimental
r l s. d a t e : Sep/2009
t r a c k s : 03
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 59,0 MB
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Oahu is the Hawaiian island, where one of the numerous types
of guitar was founded - the so called lapsteel guitar. The
name of this guitar came from the way musicians play on it:
guitar is held in the lap and while playing strings are
pressed by the steel bar. This very instrument was used for
recording the first of the three tracks form this release
called in honor of this island. This short improvisation of
Martin Luiten became the base or maybe 'sound raw material'
for two masters of experimental music from Netherlands. They
used this acoustic record for the basic part of this album -
two 20-minutes tracks. The final mix of the first part belongs
to Frans de Waard who represents his project Freiband. By the
way, this project was formed due to the idea of remaking
records made by other musicians to create something new,
differing from the original version. Rutger Zuydervelt (aka
Machinefabriek) worked with the second track, last years he
demonstrated well his skills in mixing experimental trends of
electronic music with the sounding of live instruments and
field records. Undoubtedly, the cooperation of two such unique
musicians couldn't give anything banal in the result. Oahu
perfectly lives up all our expectations deepening into the
layers of dense musical fog with deep dark drones and glitch
effects similar to clicks and crackles and with familiar in
some places melancholical running over guitar strings. But
Oahu isn't a collage and not just a set of sound experiments,
if it were, well, everything would be too simple. The work
with the material's composition makes the listener happy and
surprises him. This material demonstrates not prompt sketches,
but integral, perfect sound canvas of full value. They are
worth listening.
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01-Martin Luiten - OAHU 1 [01:24]
02-Freiband & Machinefabriek - OAHU 2.1 [21:53]
03-Freiband & Machinefabriek - OAHU 2.2 [19:56]
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43:13 min