Artist : Thomas Koner
Title : La Barca (Special Vinyl Editon Bonus Tracks)
Genre : Ambient
Year : 2010
Date : 05/2010
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 05
Label : Fario, Boomkat
Source : Vinyl
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 22:10 min
Size : 30,7 MB
Tracklist:
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01.N: Vasabron, Stockholm 04:53
02.S: Retiro Station, Buenos Aires 04:29
03.W: Bilderdijkkade, Amsterdam 04:36
04.E: Dalmatinske, Beograd 04:22
05.CODA: Calle De Argumosa, Madrid 03:50
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22:10 min
*Very Special double vinyl edition of
Thomas Koner's 'La Barca' album -
featuring a whole extra side/over 20
minutes of exclusive material never
before available on any format, cut at
Berlin's Dubplates and Mastering and
pressed up in an edition of just 500
copies for the world. If you're a
follower of Drone/Dark Ambient, and have
admired the work of anyone from
Deathprod to Rhythm & Sound to BJ Nilsen
to Chris Watson to Angelo Badalamenti -
this will blow your mind* There are few
artists in the world of recorded music
who have as innate an understanding of
silence and atmosphere as Thomas K÷ner,
and fewer still who have exerted as much
influence on dark electronic music over
the last 20 years. Next to Helge Sten,
The Hafler Trio or Mika Vainio, K÷ner is
an acclaimed master of ultra-subtle
ambient acoustics, providing some of the
finest records on labels like Mille
Plateaux, Die Stadt and Chain Reaction,
both under his birth name, and as half
of seminal techno act Porter Ricks. Like
a friendly apparition emerging from the
ether, K÷ner's latest album 'La Barca' -
was released on a limited CD edition
last year and disappeared before anyone
really got a chance to take it in. The
album completely removed us from our
location and transported us to an
environment coloured with moving air,
tones of sublime melancholy and
indistinct aural landscapes. The tracks
titled by a set of coordinates, allowing
us to imagine the locations through
their associated voices, languages and
sonic detritus. On '48║ 52' N 2║ 21' E'
you could be standing in a train station
in Azerbaijan, wrapped up in an
intangible moment of cinematic bliss,
while on '31║ 46' N 19║ 6' E' one feels
like a ghost in the midst of a Central
American pueblo, or somewhere completely
unknown. On this beautiful vinyl
edition, Side D features more than 20
minutes of extra material, extending the
concept with intangible location
recordings and the kind of layered
ambience that grows from a gentle pulse
to a colossal mass of sound without you
really noticing the process - it just
completely takes you in. This is music
ripe for the imagination from an
unrivalled mind dedicated to enhanced
auditory experience, it deserves the
undivided attention of anyone unafraid
to let themselves be transported into
the darkest corners of recorded sound.
This re-release by Boomkat (under
licence from Thomas K÷ner and Fario).
Limited to 500 copies. Includes five
additional tracks not featured on the CD
version.
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