Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Summvs

Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Summvs
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The sound of nearby water, the way air changes, subtly indicating a change in the landscape; Summvs by Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto has exactly this quality. While entirely cerebral, this recording maintains a continuity. I'm not sure what this could be the soundtrack to, but when I know the likelihood of missing the relevance is very real.

Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alvo Noto are both prolific and internationally respected artists; Sakamoto a composer, producer, pianist, etc, and Noto a sound and installation artist known for sampling and mixing banal sounds of life and sequencing them as rhythms for song structures. Working together in the past, they've stayed the course of hypnosis and arc. This album will tell you a story, if cogitation is your thing.

The special part of this record is it's non reliance on gimmick of sound. Never a moment without total lucidity; this release is composed, and urbane.


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Death By Horsecock - Azraël

Death By Horsecock - Azraël
Et Pourtant




This album makes me feel alone, and that I'm hurtling through space safely encased in an energy field. I don't know where I'm going, or if I'm going at all; and I don't care.

DBHC mix electronics with field recordings and other audio samples that will play tricks on your mind. Azraël plays out more like one long song instead of the twelve that are listed. At first listen it falls in to the category of ambient-noise; upon further exploration, however, one comes to find themselves lost in the dense, acrid emptiness of a soundtrack to an existence in the cold of space.

This record is spooky at times, but mostly it's just an odyssey of mostly epic proportions into a world of cosmic bounty.

This album is for fans of... drugs.

Their Myspace stuff has Mediafire links to all recordings.

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Death By Horsecock - METAMORPHOSE ANIMALE from Et Pourtant on Vimeo.