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r e l e a s e . i n f o
Artist.....: Jonty Harrison
Title......: Environs
Rip Date...: Nov-2009 Cat.No.....: IMED 0788
Style......: Avantgarde Label......: empreintes DIGITALes
Quality....: VBRkbps Type.......: Album
Size.......: 104,9 MB Source.....: DVD
r e l e a s e . n o t e s
Celebrating DPS' 9th birthday with some sweet empreintes DIGITALes
discs.
These discs have many formats on them: DVDA/5.1/MLP, DVD-video in
5.1 and stereo (48/24), and DVD-ROM track with 320kbps mp3 and aac
versions. The 320kbps version is available as an INT release.
This rip is to scene standard, and is derived from the DVD-video
stereo track ripped and converted to 44/16 via DVDaudioexplorer.
Sound has been normalized.
Composer: Jonty Harrison
Commission: Compagnie Pierre Deloche
Premiere: June 2, 2007, Place des Terreaux (Lyon, Rh⌠ne, France)
Plunging beneath the waves we discover a world teaming with life
and pulsing with energy. But we cannot hold our breath forever.
(And not only that, there seem to be cars down here, masquerading
as breaking waves!)
Track details here:
http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/imed_0788/pistes/
In presence of records such as Jonty Harrison's Environs one is
tempted to leave the leaf totally bare, with the exception of a
solitary word: listen. The English composer and director of
Birmingham's BEAST fully deserves to be put side by side with the
Ferraris and the Parmegianis of the world, that's for sure. Few
recent acousmatic releases have succeeded in keeping my interest
levels persistently high, a program length of circa 76 minutes
notwithstanding. Yet it's right there, on the long distance, that
weÆre in the condition of sizing up the diverse abilities of those
who play in the electroacoustic ground. While most of them need to
methodically slice, glue, juxtapose and reinvent their sonic
clothes only to sound more or less musty at the end, Harrison
focalizes his awareness on the purest elements of life, both from
a biotic point of view and the perspective of personal experience.
He constructs amazing pieces entirely based on aquatic
constituents which, contrarily to many bathed-in-obviousness
mΘlanges, appear psychologically overwhelming to the extent of
making us literally feel like drowning (Undertow). Otherwise, he
stitches together car engines and other means of transportation to
engender a whole range of inner-city rhythms and patterns
(Internal combustion). The last track Afterthoughts is built upon
sounds of a suburban garden in early summer, yet it resembles an
alarming sequence of snapshots of disheartening isolation, the
human factor all but absent in favour of intimidating roars, sharp
clangour and ominous crescendos of insurmountable metropolitan
unease. The whole toughened by superlative skills in the
assessment of timbral structure and a sense of architectural
symmetry that not many names operating in this area can challenge.
--Massimo Ricci in Touching Extremes (Italy), September 1, 2008
p l a y l i s t
01 undertow 12:19
02 recycle - rock'n'roll 11:43
03 recycle - internal combustion 11:43
04 recycle - free fall 07:54
05 streams 16:12
06 afterthoughts 15:59
75:50 min
g r e e t i n g s
agw - amok - bass - bcc - bex - boss - cmg - cmc - cms - d2h
def - dh - disc0 - drum - emp - ftd - fwyh - gem - i8 - ipc
jce - jfk - jrp - just - khz - kinky - kw - lame - maem - mbs
mgc - psycz - r2r - rac - radial - rapid - rks - rtb - sb
sever - sfe - soup - sour - sq - tr - trt - ube - uc - upe
uki - xtc - yard - zi
respect to music lovers worldwide
never forget : go to the show. buy the t-shirt. order the vinyl