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STYLE
Electronica, glitch, chillout instrumentals.
From Soil To Space sees Krusseldorf exploring further the fragile, cinematic soundscapes that typify the project. Moody atmospheres and sensitive themes set the music in a world of gentle shadows where lustrous colour and flushes of warmth maintain a pleasing balance. Ragged, grazed or damaged sounds create varying degrees of friction amongst the beauty - sometimes stark and mechanical, sometimes a faint texture suggestive of antique nostalgia. More melodic than much downtempo trance, Krusseldorf overlays delicate synth lines of differing voices, playing out his dreamy narratives in shifting tone. Beats are quite cerebral affairs; glitch scuffs, static and crackle interacting with the often complex programmed percussion.
IN DEPTH
The album opens with an attractive series of soft pads that rise like a pale sun amid the flutter of small clockwork clicks, ticks and crackle. Warm, appealing and very transporting Geometrics manages to retain a mysterious shade despite its beauty. The album then progresses via the somewhat more melodically fractured and robotic Boxing through a broad range of click-hop, glitch-ambient, epic downtempo and blissful IDM. There is a distinctly European feel to much of the music: restrained colour, idiosyncratic, timeless with a hint of the sacred. There are some brooding, sepulchral passages such as Deep Fulgin where throaty voice sounds groan among low chimes and the dull buzz of stalking synths. The album concludes with a sedate piano-led piece called A Head Under The Towel; a lazy lounge beat
ARTWORK
This is an attractive jewelcase package where muted earth tones gradually lighten into airy clouds and mists. The front cover sees two cubes of soil suspended in the air, linked both to a drifting astronaut and a flower form line drawing. Graphic embellishments add sharp details: fiery tendrils bursting like roots from the soil, spray can ink runs and bubble-like circles. The rear cover shows a patch of sandy soil with boot prints; track titles sit within a clean buff coloured box. These are repeated on the back of the sleeve insert along with credits and website information. The flip side of the three panel insert brings the cover elements into vivid close-up: the suited astronaut floats in, filling the whole left panel; an earthen cube dangles on the right, further shapes fading into obscurity behind. The central panel invites listeners to meet up on the 'other side' of the looking glass, the 'plummeting caves of humanity's cradle', 'the outer reaches of our fragile mind'. Thanks from both the artist and label are also here.
OVERALL
Swedish musician, producer and sound designer Simon Heath returns as Krusseldorf with this full-length follow-up to Bohemian Groove. Simon has a sizeable back catalogue of music released under various aliases with Krusseldorf being his primary chillout identity. That said, Krusseldorf by no means falls neatly into any specific genre and his otherworldly static and glitch flecked recordings maintain a beguiling individuality. From Soil to Space sees Krusseldorf moving from the Beats & Pieces label that delivered last year's Bohemian Groove to Aleph-Zero Records. There are thirteen tracks on the album that are well arranged so as to provide considerable variety of style within a distinct bracket. You can listen to the music at the Aleph Zero website, or you can learn more about the project at the official Krusseldorf site.
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Posted : Oct 31, 2011 21:55
Krusseldorf - From Soil To Space ( Aleph Zero , Oct. 2011 )
Media format: CD
Catalog No.: AlephZ18
Release date: 17.10.2011
Track List:
1 Geometrics
2 Boxing
3 The Cell
4 First Blood
5 From Soil To Space
6 Click
7 Deep Fulgin
8 Tokyo Nights
9 Soe Doe
10 Deep Into The Bowl
11 Choclop
12 Zyclops
13 A Head Under The Towe
Music for late night traveling, psychedelic winter shades, parallel universes and strange encounters. Simon Heath, aka Krusseldorf, the sound designer from Sweden, is back with a new mind-boggling release. From Soil to Space is a ghostly sound swell of very well produced, IDM-ish, misty and cleverly glitchy downtempo electronica with a strong otherworldly quality. In terms of sound aesthetics, vibe and atmosphere, From Soil to Space is an album that with its own original personality revisits and illuminates one of Aleph Zero's more familiar and most beloved sonic territories, a territory of deep and polished electronic based music that tells a detailed, epic, mysterious and slightly dark story. A territory that characterizes some of the label's earliest and most attractive releases like Kalitz, Midnight Soul Dive, Some Things Never Change, and Dark Room Beats. From Soil to Space can tell a story about whatever we want: enchanted desert moons, futuristic cities, northern lights, or maybe just about groovy and smooth space floating, the possibilities are endless. It all depends on our imagination, and if you have a healthy imagination, From Soil to Space will be a powerful tool to use in order to transfer yourselves to. . .
Krusseldorf took his unique sound and style to the next level, and it really shows in every second of this album with stylish high quality production that intensifies the strong emotional core of the compositions. As opposed to the charming Bohemian Groove (Krusseldorf's previous album that was released on Beats & Pieces last year) things are more subtle and a bit more tricky on From Soil to Space. You can hear that a lot of work went into this creation, and as we know, those who work hard and put love in what they do, bear fruit. And this is definitely the case here, as From Soil to Space is Krusseldorf's best work to date. With this album Krusseldorf provides something special and alluring that a lot of us electronic music fans out there are always longing for.
Recomendation: After swimming in the more experimental side of downtempo electronica, electro acoustic and chillout, and releasing the lovely album Hold The Sun, the guys at Aleph Zero swam back home. So all I can say is just go buy the CD, so you'll also get the elegant, fine looking artwork, put a good pair of headphones on, sit back, press play, and just feel the music yourselves and see what it does to you. Because after all, as someone once said: "Writing About Music is Like Dancing About Architecture".
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Posted : Nov 4, 2011 10:08
Nice reviews from you guys,
really a good album from Krusseldorf! )
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Posted : Nov 4, 2011 19:12
my copy arrived yesterday ...
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Posted : Nov 6, 2011 12:07
good for you! massive release from aleph zero this one.
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Posted : Nov 9, 2011 00:41
i am kind fo having dificulties in getting into this album..must listen more times, to see if i can catch the essence of it ...
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Posted : Nov 9, 2011 09:17
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On 2011-11-09 00:41, a3k wrote:
i am kind fo having dificulties in getting into this album..must listen more times, to see if i can catch the essence of it
Well, when this sort of thing happens to me, I usually put the CD back on the shelf for a month or two, and sometimes for 6 or 7, and then when I feel that it's the right moment, I pull it out and play it again. In most cases it does the trick for me
Though in some cases it even took a year or two. . .
Cheers !
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Posted : Nov 9, 2011 17:27
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On 2011-11-09 00:41, a3k wrote:
i am kind fo having dificulties in getting into this album..must listen more times, to see if i can catch the essence of it
Wait for a cold winter night...
Aleph Zero
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Posted : Nov 17, 2011 09:11
Thanks for the good reviews and feedback. We're really happy this album is recieved so well. A lot of hard work and passion were put into it.
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