SÄLLSKAPET - FROM SWEDEN / GERMANY WITH HIGH QUALITY

Ne fund te fundit nuk ka rendesi nese e kupton ate cfare shkruan Goethe sepse muzika e Sällskapet sebashku me interpretimin e Shroeder autoshprehen duke shperndare nje mesazh mjaft te qarte: perzierjet e sugjerimeve (letersi apo muzike) jane dekadente dhe plot melankoli.
Padyshim, albumi Disparition (2018) perfaqeson kohen dhe hapesiren ideale per te shoqeruar nje ftese nostalgjike per muzike post-industriale, pse jo gjetke neper rruget historike te Berlinit ose neper ish-burgjet e Stokholmit...

'THE BIG SHIP' - BRIAN ENO JEP MESIM MBI MUZIKEN ELEKTRONIKE. ME NJE GJURME PO AQ ROCK SA AMBIENT.

Gezohet me idene e njeriut qe deshiron te ike larg ne det apo oqean mbi nje Anije te Madhe.

Nuk e kam idene se cfare ka perdorur ketu ky gjeni i muzikes elektronike (fillimet ne vitet '70; dhe kur une u zhyta ne karrieren e tij prej solisti, nuk dola me gjalle njelloj!); duken si shtresa tastierash elektronike (xhiro bass-i), ose te pakten supozoj te jete dicka e tille... E megjithate, tingull tmerresisht eksperimental, delikat e pas-ambient.

Ndoshta tek te paket albume (Another Green World, 1975) i cili trasmeton imazhe te pastra, fotografi te bukura te mendjes, sekuenca te imagjinates me trajta social-intime e ndjesi ngrohtesie thelle ne zemer.  Pararendes i epokes post-humaniste ku jetojme?

Ah, po eshte enciklopedi me vehte Eno!   

HIATUS AND SHURA - 'RIVER' [FORTUNE'S FOOL, 2011]

"Meet me in the dust cloud... Meet me in the white light."

 

Hiatus: Shura and I both share an affection for music that mixes melancholic harmonies with moody basslines, and we’re both rigorous self-editors, constantly going back and trimming stuff down to its bare essentials.

I love the way Shura uses her voice like an instrument; layering and looping it in exactly the way I would if I was sampling her off a record.

For the most part she’ll come to me with vocals and a guitar line, and I’ll build the track up around that; occasionally she’s taken an old tune of mine and added lyrics...

[from an interview]

OCELOTE ROJO - MAKING PSYCHEDELIC, RITUAL, TROPICAL-AMBIENTALISTIC GUITAR NOODLINGS WITH A BIT OF FIELD RECORDING

The instrumental pieces by Francisco Javier Aravena Riveros are an intense, creative, free expression of the deep South America.

Marked viscerally with this imaginary opaque forests, animals and wild sounds, the young Chilean student of 24 years delivers under the name of Ocelote Rojo, a small mythical lynx, ancient symbol of Latin American unity and struggle of all its peoples.

GIRIU DVASIOS - INSPIRATION COMES FROM THE LITHUANIAN FORESTS...

Girių Dvasios is a dub techno, electronic dub and ambient music project started in early 2009.
The name of the project means 'The Spirits of The Woods' in Lithuanian.

The sound of Girių Dvasios is inspired by ancient Baltic culture and the nature of this area. A big inspiration and influence comes from thick forests of Lithuania. Every Girių Dvasios track ( like 'Greitai') has a Lithuanian name, which is in one way or another related to nature.
He combines traditional dub elements, slick minimal house techniques, dense atmospherics and an ultramodern array of sounds; creating varying environs of uncomparable organic clarity.

HERE A PIECE OF INFINITY

PORTOPIA '81 - 'COSMIC CITY SERENADE'

What if something really weird happenes to me during my first-time visit in the Science Museum?
As a child in an excursion, this sound it's like a little nostalgic feeling. 
But good old memories. 
Twitter of birds in the second half.
It is for sure a sweet and sour feeling.
With the starry sky at night, you'll want to take a deep breath which will fill up every lonely chest...

SUNNY DUNES - 'RIVIERA'

'YOU IN ME' [VOLOR FLEX]

If I had one wish, we would be best friends
Love would never end, it would just begin

Promise to love you, trust me I'll trust you.

VOLOR FLEX AND BULB - 'CITY PRESSURE'

The story of this video follows a man feeling the pressures of modern city life.
Feeling like an outcast, the protagonist dons a mask as he journeys through the typical debaucheries of the city night time. Presented from the protagonists point of view, the video highlights his contempt for a society that has become one of lights and glamour.

For the most part of this video the character’s purpose is unclear until the end where it is revealed he is about to make a statement...

 

 

 

IAMFOREST - 'GOLIATH'. I STARTED PLAYING MUSIC AT A YOUNG AGE...

Here his (very) normal introduction:

'My name is Luke Hartle and I’m an independent musician from Vancouver, Canada.

I started playing music at a young age and have been writing in all sorts of genres since I was fifteen. I went to audio engineering school when I was twenty and have been producing electronic music ever since. I listen to, and am inspired by pretty much every type of music'.

[ps: thank you Miss. G]

ELLEN ALLIEN & APPARAT - 'FLOATING POINTS' [ORCHESTRA OF BUBBLES, 2006]

'Pikat Lundruese'.

Ose me mire, taste ketu-atje qe shtypin mbi tastiera touch ne monitore gjigante ne studio shtepiake nendhe. Eksperimenti Apparat gezon autonomi, fale nje vije te mesme; pak minimalizem tradicional, shume perspektiva post-moderne, nje ambjent futurist si sfond dhe vizatim te tingujve si elemente te pavarur.

Dhe ne muziiken dixhitale qe regjistron, vajza i parashtron qe ne fillim keto karakteristika!

Me pas keto hidhen ne lum, te lire. Si perla...

[Pas 'Aparatit' dhe etiketes BPitch Control fshihet Ellen Allien; nje dj gjermane (nga Berlini), eksponente kryesore sot e elektronikes per klube; vende te cilet njihen mire per pritjen fantastike qe i rezervojne 'klienteve' techno/deep-house].

RICKY EAT ACID - SKETCHES (2012)

'I’ve always loved ambient and drone music and this summer I really became obsessed with the idea of music as a means of evoking place, time, or feeling instead of telling some kind of narrative. It’s the same way I like to approach photography, actually. I like photos that have a strong sense of composition, but it’s easy to miss because the focus is more on texture or tone which I guess leads to the photos I used for the project...'

'I feel like music should be, above all, visual. It doesn’t have to be, of course, but the music I personally connect with is very visual to me. I imagine myself listening to it at a specific time, or in a specific place, whether or not that time or place is real, so I’ve always loved writing songs that encapsulate certain places or moments in time for me. Sometimes I’ll go out exploring just to get inspiration for a song...'

from interview Ricky Eat Acid

music 'Brand New'

DEEPCHORD PRESENTS ECHOSPACE - EKSPERIENCE PERMES SHQISAVE. UDHETIME HELMUESE DHE MINIMALIZEM HIPNOTIZUES

Eshte sikur 'degjon muziken TECHNO-DUB nga perjashte deres kryesore'.
Sic shkon ne klub, merr per te pire, njihesh me dike (qe me siguri var memoriet RAM te kompjuterit mbi qafe) dhe del jashte. Pret dicka, pret te ndodhe dicka, por qe nuk e di me te vertete se cfare mund te jete. Kohen? Dhe nderKohe muzika brenda humbet frekuencat e larta dhe, pikerisht aty dek hapesira (echoSpace) e vogel perpara daljes, mberrin vetem nje perqindje e vogel e atyre cikleve te pafundem rrahes (beat-et e 'Firefly'). Efekti kap veshin, shqisat e me pas qelizat e mendjes...
Urdhri eshte te humbesh ne thellesi (deep). Ndadalesisht...

Projekti i Deepchord Presents Echospace eshte tmerresisht helmues. Eshte fakt ky. Cilesi e garantuar. Kopertinat dhe fletpalosjet e koncept-albumeve jane gjithnje nje mengjezore me arkitekture bashkekohore, apo nje Tokio naten, pare nga lart. Nje muzike per nje nga ato pjeset e filmave aziatike (Shanghai?) ku ai/ajo lakuriq del ne ballkon ne nje urbanistike te cmendur dhe gjemon me sy dritat e shperndara poshte ('Celestialis', 2007)...

Fjalet kyce jane dy. E para eshte 'MINIMAL': nje ndotje e tingullit te Detroit-it (cunat e Deepchord jane nga Micigan!) me dj-t e bareve te Berlinit. E dyta eshte 'HIPNOTIZUES': nje rit nokturn qe perseritet derisa ti te lesh peng intelektin ne shinat e trenave elektrike super-te-shpejte.
Nuk kam shume per te shkruar. Me te vertete! Provoni eksperiencen ('Sunset' nga albumi The Coldest Season), thithni hapesiren qe krijohet perqark jush dhe mbushni mushkerite me zhurmen e organizuar.
Hapesiren, ne kuptimin e pergjithshem, tashme e kane pushtuar. Valet.

(ps: po ju le me nje koment marre nga 'Burnt Stage' ne web:

A pregnant woman steps onto an underground train. The foyer is crowded. Electronic doors and devices chime gently around her. She takes the stairs to a warm quiet carriage and leans her weary head on the window, gazing out at the dark tunnel before her. The developing child sees nothing, as he has always done. But this is what he hears...)

LEYLAND KIRBY - WHEN WE PARTED MY HEART WANTED TO DIE

Rezident ne Berlin, por eshte anglez. Thur muzike (per 78 xhirosh) sikur te ishte nje neurolog qe heton zonat gri te trurit. Meposhte degjoni thjesht 15min adagio, per momente prekese, memorie qe zhduken, zhurme rrugesh, ambjent, piano etj etj...

Leyland Kirby - When We Parted My Heart Wanted To Die

(Kur u ndame, zemra ime donte te vdiste)

ART OF NOISE - ARTI I ZHURMES

Arti i Zhurmes:

Ndonjehere artisti ka nevoje per ate te shkrete "fame" te perkohshme apo sukses te menjehershem, te pakten per te vetmin motivacion te vlefshem: leshimin e asaj muzike te brendshme, unike si menyre shprehjeje. E njejta gje do te ndodhte me Trevor Horn, liderin-ideator te mevonshem ne formacionin elektro-ambient te 'Artit te Zhurmes'.

Novacione me sfond ambjenti elektronik, pioniere te break-dance, pop-it eksperimental e ndikime nga Claude Debussy dhe rrenjet e futurizmit. Ja tek eshte prezantimi/historia i/e grupit eksperimental Art Of Noise dhe albumeve te tyre me kopertina vizatimesh teatrale:

"This limited circle of pure sounds must be broken, and the infinite variety of “noise-sound” conquered".

(rrethi i kufizuar i tingujve te mirefillte duhet te thyhet, keshtuqe varieteti i pafundme i "tingujve-zhurme" te mund te mposhtet)

... nga futuristi Luigi Russolo

Projekti Art Of Noise merr forme ne Londer, ne rrethin e artisteve si Trevor Horn (pasi kishte shperthyer me suksesin e 'Video Killed The Radio Star' te Buggles e njekohesisht vokalisti i Yes) dhe ideve te reja qe perpunoheshin akoma ne mendjen 'elektronike'. Eshte fillimi i viteve '80 dhe tekniket e zerit ishin personazhet me te kerkuar nga grupet qe guxonin dhe qe tentonin te publikonin albume novatore. Te kshilluar nga gazetari muzikor, nje lloj anetari jo-muzikant i te rinjve Art Of Nose, Paul Morley, emrat e Anne Dudley, J.J Jeczalik dhe Gary Langan do te ndihmonin Horn te hidhte ne nota e eksperimente sonore idete 'e cuditshme' qe kishte per qellim. Nga ky sfond paraprak formohen Art Of Noise, ne vitin 1983 ne Londer. Fillimisht mbrohen nga etiketa e re e te njejtit Horn me emrin ZZT (Zang Tuum Tumb), e cila perurohet me extendet playing Into Battle With The Art Of Nosie. Fale ritmeve sintetike elektronike te 'Beat Box', e cila te ben per vehte me nxitje te parezistueshme kercimi ne drejtime dada. Gjurma, ose me mire suita me fantastike qe nuk kishte kurrsesi rivale ne ate periudhe, do te ishte 'Moments Of Love', xhiro ciklike melodike dhe te riiteruara mrekullisht nga tastiera prezantuese. Do te shnderrohet ne nje 'torture' instrumentale, e destinuar per te duruar ne kohe dhe per tu degjuar ne momente delikate te interaksionit human.

Momente dashurie:

Art Of Noise (emrin nga futuristi italian Luigi Russolo dhe manifesto i tij) do te perfaqesojne projektin me origjinal, fantsatik qe qarkullonte ne rrymen ambient dhe ne kohen kur te gjithe dukeshin se mund te riprodhonin muzike me baze synth-i, edhe pa asnje ide ne koke. Gjurma 'Momente Dashurie' eshte impresionuese, e mprehte dhe delikate si nje veper surrealizmi, frymezuese per imagjinate romantike apo episode flirtues. Suksesi i "turpshem" kalon me publikimin e albumit e shkelqyer debut Whos' Afraid Of The Art Of Noise? (ZZT, 1984), ne te cilin propozohen gjurme te njejta dhe kompozime te reja (kush ka frike nga arti i zhurmes?). Nje nga keto gjurme me fat eshte dhe 'Close (To The Edit)'. 'Beat Box (Diversion One)' do te ishte gjurma qe do te vihej me shume nga dj neper diskoteka. Eshte triumfi i tingullit artificial, atij krijuar me kompjuter, ku elektronika minimaliste dhe dukshem e thjeshte nuk ishte bajate, mbarte koncepte dhe kalime muzikore interesante. Tingujt ishin vetem ne aparence te ftohte sepse elementi kryesor ishte komplikimi spiral i zhanreve, cikli gjithnje i ndryshem. Ne fakt Horn ishte shume perpara me perzierjen e vecante te funk-ut, pop-it, jazz-it dhe dance music. Ishte paraardhesi i pop-it eksperimental. Gjurma eshte melodike, delikate si asgje tjeter dhe intime ne te njejten kohe (do te pefshihet ne mjaft compilation chill out).

Ne fakt marifeti i pothuajse te gjithe diskografise se grupit ishte te kombinonte te gjithe pikat e manifesto-s te futurizmit dhe te kishe fantazi kampjonimi te rralle (kjo e fundit nuk i mungonte aspak katershes se Art Of Noise!). Asnje nuk do besonte se synth-pop-i mund te ishte kaq i "cuditshem" dhe me nivel sonor kaq abstrakt. Albumi ne fjale eshte padyshim nje pjese e rendesishme e historise se muzikes.