‘Shapes’ review by Vital Weekly
Jan 27th, 2009 by U.S.O. Project
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GRAPHICALSOUND - SHAPES (Synesthesia Recordings)
Behind graphicalSound is Matteo Milani, whom we recently heard for the first time in Vital Weekly 644 as one half of the U.S.O. Project. Milani started at the end of the 80s, splicing tape at radio stations. These days its all about the computer, ‘blending synthetic and organic sound material, sharing the Pierre Schaeffer ‘audio vision’ of musique concrete’. The four pieces on this release are nice, but hardly musique concrete, unless of course the sounds have been altered to such an extent that we don’t recognize the original input - that might very well be possible. Only in ‘Water Emotions’ we do recognize the water sounds and it seems that Milani here tries to play a cover of ‘Blanket Level Approach’ by The Hafler Trio. Its more ambient music of a highly digital kind, time stretched sounds, filtered with tons of granulating sound effects. Flowing like the best Hypnos release, but less based on analogue synthesizers and more computers. A minor difference, and probably not a very important one. Milani plays his music with great skill and this is a very nice ambient work. (Frans de Waard)
tracklist for Vital Weekly 663:
0000 Tune
0014 Baja - Deleth
0313 Lars Myvrell - The Gleaming Water (Monaco)
0615 Chas Smith - Nakadai
0918 Anna Zaradny - Mauve 1
1222 Ferran Fages - Desfer La Pausa
1535 Gianluca Becuzzi & Fabio Orsi - Snow Palace Hotel (C)
1837 graphicalSound - Water Emotions
2139 Alva Noto - Xerrox Sora
2442 Thomas Bel - Die Linien Des Herbstes
2743 Evapori - Rehearsal II
3046 Undo - Des Tournages
3352 James Whitehead - 4′33” As A Determined Object
3654 Antn Hrkwk - Infinite Juice Parade
3956 Simon Brown/Dylan Crichton - Stupid Desert
4037 Luca Mauri - A Quiet Storm
4341 Philipm Halke - A Place That I Said Goodbye To
4641 PM - Electronic Church 17.9.08
4943 Richard Ramirez
5252 Tune
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