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«Closer, and farther...there is a constant spatial fluctuation on Thanos Chrysakis' 'Errant Waves': a 7-track release built by abstract crystalline/metallic sounding events, happening on different places around you, some of them near, some of them far, and is this distance shifting and amazing space usage, what makes this album particularly fascinating and intriguing.
Thanos Chrysakis is a London living musician of Greek origin, who also writes poetry and does experimental moving image making. His work is well known and has released several pieces through different labels. Now test tube has the honor and delight to release ‘Errant Waves’, one of the most fascinating and best structured pieces that this writer has heard in a big while.
'Inscape 10' (track number 1) is a sudden window to ‘Errant Waves’; quickly you are immersed on a strange universe of tiny glitchy sounds and spacey atmospheres. When you already feel familiar and settled with what's going on, distances begin to change and the sounds' source move away, just to come right to your face and then move back again. This song lets you go and grabs you back constantly.
'Inscape 11' is a beautiful short piece, with accentuated bass frequencies and beautiful chimey sounds.
'Inscape 12' starts slowly, like a dialogue with an alien that is figuring out what to say as he speaks. Suddenly the track takes an upfront louder mood just to fade away and bring some piano notes superbly mixed with sine waves and hi-pitched micro bells-like sounds. Beautiful.
'Inscape 13' starts in an amazing way, with a lot of sounds emerging from everywhere while an expanding/compressing sine wave floats in your head. The track reaches a peak when you have all those tiny sounds sparkling right near to your ears just to fade away leaving the background sine alone just to welcome new beautiful elements and textures that fade and so. Beautiful track.
'Inscape 14' is a short piece with some incidental melodies and beautiful sounds moving around.
'Inscape 15' starts very sudden; this might be the most emotional piece of the record: there is a sweet melodic low frequency background sound, serving as a soul behind all those glitchy and crystalline sounds. A beautiful emotional journey though abstractness.
'Inscape 16' starts very slowly, creating tension and expectation, as new elements appear easing the tension, and driving the song into a fascinating path of shy crispness and crystal soundscapes. As the song evolves, a melodic pattern appears, and gives the song a more narrative meaning. Song ends up superbly with some few elements fading away very slowly.
This is a very special album, one to be listened as a whole with no pauses, and that is easy since the structures and progressions are so dynamic and emotionally grabbing.» - David Velez |
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• Inscape 16 (Alleys) ................................................................... |
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Reviews:
«Fascinating music. I've played this a couple of times now and it keeps getting better. It's good, solid composition with beautifully chosen sounds and never too much. Thank you Mr. Chrysakis!»
- Bas van Dam [EARLabs] / July 15, 2006
«Cet album porte véritablement bien son titre. Sept pièces d'un calme profond et d'errance. Les ondes cristallines semblent vivre d'elles-mêmes, laissées libres par leur créateur. C'est du plus bel effet et on tombe facilement sous le charme obsédant de cette musique. On s'y risque? Oui, assurément!»
- LaFresto / December 06, 2005
«I think this is serious stuff! Having been very interested in the idiom some time ago, I've spend one and a half years listening weekly to various historical as well as contemporary electroacoustic and acousmatic music in a berlin university studio (TU). For myself, I came to the conclusion: 2 Percent -> great, 4 Percent -> good, rest -> unneccesary. My favourite artist was always Xenakis (He probably constituted 1,5 of the 2 percent). I believe these Inscapes belong to the 2 Percent!.»
- Jo Jena [EARLabs] / December 03, 2005 |
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