Bom*shankar
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Posted : Oct 23, 2011 16:04
this is an excellent album and i urge you to own it and support it.
deep fulgin is currently on the top of my list because it is so totally darkly hypnotic and psychedelic, but most of the trax are amazing. i will review as soon as i digest it mor and my work allows me to...
excellent release!
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Posted : Oct 24, 2011 16:29
Got the CD today. Lovely artwork from AZ as usual. Very tasteful and elegant:
Bom*shankar
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Posted : Oct 25, 2011 08:10
nice bed cover too
this one just blows me away to a faraway land. so hypnotic and psychedelic
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Posted : Oct 25, 2011 09:08
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On 2011-10-25 08:10, Bom*shankar wrote:
nice bed cover too
This one is such a great opener !
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Posted : Oct 26, 2011 19:46
I still can't decide which one is my fav track.
Thats a good sign
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Posted : Oct 28, 2011 02:57
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Posted : Oct 28, 2011 15:21
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.
This track reminds me of when you are tripping real hard on mushrooms. When you are sort of middle trip, when it's at it's most intense. Been a while now though http://thenoseisperpendicular.blogspot.com/
Melancholyman
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Posted : Oct 31, 2011 21:41
I enjoyed reading your review Gad.K! Maybe it's bcs I'm drunk otherwise I might have been jealous. Dunno...ehh:S
Ps. I'm drunk bcs my gf is not at home, what a RELIEEEF! omg, why didn't anyone told me that it would be like prison having a gf? I love her ofc but..like just like Mel Gibson I need to scream, freeeeeedooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom!!!!!!
Altough when you wrote about aleph zero going back to it's earliest?! or roots, works I thouhh you were giong to mention Bluetech, elementary particles, that album really has captured the psychedelic vibe perfectly, god I wish I could relive that album like it was the first time I listened to it,
http://thenoseisperpendicular.blogspot.com/
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Posted : Oct 31, 2011 22:06
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Posted : Nov 1, 2011 16:37
Got my copy last night finally! Listened to most of it. I like it, but it's definitely gonna have to grow on me, which is fine, cuz that's what happened to Bohemian Grove.
