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Fredrik Ohr - Falling Through The Earth ( Aleph Zero records )
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Bodhisattva
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This is a review I wrote for chillbase.org.
http://www.chillbase.org/
http://www.chillbase.org/reviews/199-fredrik-ohr-falling-through-the-earth.html
Fredrik Ohr - Falling Through The Earth
Label: Aleph Zero Records
Catalog#: ALEPHZ14
Format: CD, Album
Released: 16 Nov 2009
Track list:
1. Shadows Fly Behind You
2. A Day For Great Deeds
3. Eating Fog
4. Enough Time
5. Naaga
6. Disorientation
7. Message
8. Airport Song
9. Morning Ritualism
10. Fell From The Sky
11. Interlocked
12. Delgermaa
13. Return
14. Falling Through The Earth
Review Written by Gad.K
Colorful sophisticated tapestries of electronic wonders, beautifully and cleverly merged with refreshing Asian
influences, intelligent contemporary Jazzy textures and alternative warm ambi-dream pop.
All of this is perfectly crafted,engineered and embroidered to create a unique voyage that will take you to some visual and emotional landscapes.
A rich combination of Ambient, chillout, IDM, electronica, lounge and delicate breaks that
contains some sort of innocent beauty, a naive optimistic charm of some kind...
"Falling through the Earth" holds a real sense of adventure.
Sorcery and mysterious elusive illusions reveal themselves by taking forms of sounds,
then disappearing into the air, luring the listener into the enchanted territories they came from with a promise for a magical enlightenment.
Sensual grooves blending with urban moods and pastoral ambience.
Fredrik Ohr is a musician and producer from Stockholm, Sweden and "Falling through the Earth" is his much awaited debut album.
Besides Fredrik's wonderful programming and great synths and keyboards work you will also find a few more various instruments in "Falling through the Earth", such as: flutes, saxophone, acoustic guitar, percussion, double bass and Rhodes piano.
On some instruments Fredrik is playing beautifully himself, and the rest is played by his fellow musicians,doing a beautiful job as well.
You will also find lush atmospheric vocal layers on several compositions here, sometimes lyrically infused, adding a melange
of flavours to this journey.
So like it says on the Aleph Zero release notes, "Fredrik has a long background in classical piano and as a song writer, and that is highly evident in the subtle complexity underlying his music."
Fredrik's compositions are indeed complex, multi-layered and spiced with soft psychedelic touches and elegant glitches yet there is a certain kind of catchiness in his music that captures the listener.
The Aleph Zero label is well known in this "scene" of music and in the last six years the Aleph Zero team and artists delivered quite a few releases that are characterized by high levels of production,beautiful,innovative multi-colored music,and original artwork.
I can honestly say that there are no exceptions with "Falling through the Earth",
in fact,with this release the Aleph Zero label is setting even higher standards of production and genre-fusing, thanks to Fredrik Ohr's musical and production skills and Yaniv Shulman's refined mastering work.
Of course that most of the credit goes to Fredrik Ohr for his fresh and interesting musical vision and his realization of it, but some of the credit also goes to Shahar and Yaniv ( the two minds behind Aleph Zero ) for their good instincts, choosing beautiful unique music,finding new talents and serving the music as a beautiful piece of sonic and visual jewelry.
Artwork:
The artwork of this album was created by Ryan Bubnis and it's quite different from the artwork of the previous Aleph Zero releases. Ryan Bubnis's style is very captivating and intriguing, and I can't really explain why but when you look at the artwork of this album you see that it really fits to Falling through the Earth's vibes and energies.
Summary
"Falling through the Earth" is very suitable to unwind with at the end of the day but also suitable to start the day with on a nice cozy vacation morning. It's filled with strange pleasant tranquility yet it provides a deep and unexpected listening experience.
Genre-fusing at its finest.
One of the best Aleph Zero releases.
Pure bliss from start to end.
For purchase,samples and info go to the Aleph Zero website:
http://www.aleph-zero.info/cd-146/Fredrik-Ohr/Falling-through-the-Earth/details.html
Special Offer,CD + poster here:
http://www.aleph-zero.info/shop/sales.html
CD is also available from psyshop:
http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/ale/ale1cd014.html
And from Saiko Sounds:
http://www.saikosounds.com/english/display_release.asp?id=8222
More info and samples on Fredrik Ohr's myspace page:
http://www.myspace.com/fredrikohr
And here:
http://www.myspace.com/alephzerorecords
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Posted : Nov 21, 2009 12:44
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Groovy hypnotic sounds...
Aleph Zero never disappoints us.
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Bom*shankar
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this is so fukin amazing i don't understand why there arent ten pages here. i don't have time to review now- too much work. this is like king crimson meet robert wyat doing electronic glitch chill with some ethnic sounds. so deep and original and different then the generic stuf that comes out now days |
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Posted : Dec 2, 2009 03:45
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Got my copy 4 days ago. I think this was the first time I listened to Fredrik's music, and I must say it is a very detailed and audacious journey. I'll have and I want to listen again and again to catch some small nuances, and that makes me feel it conquered me. And this is an amazing feeling, to know that you can seek peace and comfort in music.
Aleph Zero made a very positive move with this release.
Respect!
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...Be gentle with the earth...
...Dance like nobody's watching...
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Posted : Dec 10, 2009 00:12
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brilliant and unique!
Not your usual psychill/ambient.
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Posted : Dec 10, 2009 15:10
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amazingly original sounds......
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STYLE
Dreamy, glitchy ambient chillout. Fredrik Öhr has created one of the most individual sounding electronic albums that I have heard in a long time. Clearly carried somehow by the tides of current downtempo and psychill, Falling Through The Earth benefits from cutting edge digital sophistication, blissful glitchy beats and global interconnection - yet at the same time this music is delightfully different and idiosyncratic with beautifully beguiling atmospheres, brittle textures and unaffected honesty. Rich, heady flutes waft in contrast to the flicker and flutter of glitch-breaks; plaintive piano and Middle-Eastern pipes interplay over bright crackle on the beautiful, beautiful A Day For Great Deeds; jazzy sounds and forms arise alongside international song in subtle flavours such as the doped double bass and muted wails of Morning Ritualism - dappled synthetic lights playing behind. Vocal content is frequent, yet rarely dominant - poetic phrases in a wistful gated female voice, sampled chants from around the world, Fredrik's own singing, vocoder musings and the spoken word. Not an album of arpeggios and sequencer forms, not an album of overt melodic themes (although some sweetly delicate melodies are certainly present), Falling Through The Earth is the music of shifting textures, deft layering and beguiling beats.
MOOD
The dominant mood of Falling Through The Earth is one of enchanting, exotic serenity. Crisp, lustrous soundscapes of playful, abstract forms that at times are so light and airy as to almost float away. There is often the sense of relaxing somewhere hot and dry, not anywhere special, somewhere personal yet far off - contradictory mindscapes arising and morphing constantly - a testament to the evocative power of Öhr's music. The gorgeous water movements and tropical environmental elements of Return that are echoed in the subsequent bubbling electro/tabla-beat and idle vocalisations leave the listener floating far from shore on warm waters under a euphoric sun.
ARTWORK
As unusual as the music - Falling Through The Earth is fronted by a drawing of tightly crowded figures, clustered in the lower half of the panel. They could have started out as fingerprints - this little knot of faces has a primitive, tribal quality to it - full of aboriginal style patterns, short lines and dots. As the three panel insert is removed from the package these peculiar persons now hang from the upper half of the next panel as if gathered now at the opposite end of the earth. Behind the CD itself a darkened close-up of the same faces here fills the whole tray. The rear of the package presents a tracklist and a discussion of the project that introduces Fredrik Öhr himself and his music. Further sections of the insert carry instrumental credits, poetic sources and production details. Here too are website and email addresses along with a generous listing of thanks.
OVERALL
Stockholm based musician and producer Fredrik Öhr releases his debut album Falling through the Earth through the much respected Aleph-Zero label. Pursuing the label's interest in high-quality international electro-acoustic downtempo; this new album could hardly suit Aleph-Zero better. Fredrik Öhr both fits in like something eminently familiar, in keeping with the 'house sound' and simultaneously breaks mold, sounding fresh and unexpected. The fourteen tracks of the album have a pleasing, confident unity about them yet follow no obvious formula - each piece taking the drift of the album off in a new direction, a meandering journey of discovery that is constantly turning up new surprises. Collaborating artists bring soprano saxophone, acoustic guitar, quena, bamboo flute, double bass and percussion as well as vocal content to the mix. Promotional material describes the music as "a wonderful dreamy and fresh combination of North European atmospheres and textures interlaced with Asian influences, all dipped in 70s psychedelic delicate feel" - yes yes yes! I strongly suggest you explore the E-flier for this release wherein you can read information on the album and the artist whilst sampling every track.
WHO WILL LIKE THIS ALBUM
If you enjoy quirky downtempo with an international leaning - this could be one for you. Falling Through The Earth will especially enchant you if you aren't looking for a steady downtempo-trance beat; the rhythms here are delicate and fragile, not regular and thumping. Listen to the E-flier.
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www.morpheusmusic.co.uk
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Bodhisattva
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Posted : Apr 12, 2010 21:15
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Still going strong...
Such a lovely lovely album ! |
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Posted : Oct 21, 2010 14:06
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i still dont understand how is this not something that shook the world. it is so deep and amazing. i discover here new things every time. and it's so chilled and yet so psychedelic and even alien at times in some sort of way i cant explain. this is something new. own it!
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Bodhisattva
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Posted : Oct 21, 2010 14:26
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A beautiful album indeed ! |
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Bodhisattva
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Posted : Oct 27, 2010 17:30
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On 2010-10-21 14:06, Bom*shankar wrote:
i still dont understand how is this not something that shook the world. it is so deep and amazing. i discover here new things every time. and it's so chilled and yet so psychedelic and even alien at times in some sort of way i cant explain. this is something new. own it!
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I completely agree.
This is one of the most creative albums of recent years. So much depth in it. Even now I still discover more. . .
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