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Quality:  192kbps / 44.1kHz

Release:  Jun-08-2003

Pure - Noonbugs

59:23 min  81,7 MB

Mego's press release refers to Pure's CD Noonbugs as "a take on the
darker edge of 20th century classical/avant-garde" and attempts to put it
in the same category as the works of Alvin Lucier and Eliane Radigue ù by
saying it doesn't belong there, which is a clever rhetorical abracadabra.
This album does indeed fit the dark ambient criteria and stands as the
label's smoothest sonic ride up to this point, but composer's music? One
should not automatically build a wall between so-called serious music and
electronica (actually, such a wall would now be impossible), but clearly
this continuous one-hour piece has been conceived by the mind of an
electronic artist. The pace, flow, technique, and general constitution of
it stem from experimental ambient rooms, not academic studios. The eight
indexes represent points of inflection in the unfolding of the piece:
changes in thickness, introduction of a new sound source, new momentum.
Throughout, drones and sine waves move around at a comfortable pace.
Digital glitches and treated samples populate the landscape ù a female
voice in "Ivan," a bowed double bass in "Pelt." If Pure demonstrates a
commanding level of artistry as a sound designer, his piece remains too
unidimensional to really engage the listener. Much more eventful than
Lucier's or Radigue's music on its first level, in the end it opens fewer
doors of perception. It has moments that fans of Fennesz and Kim Cascone
will enjoy, but it rarely reaches either one's hypnotizing charm. ù
Franτois Couture (AMG)

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01  lit                                           10:01
02  lobs                                          11:28
03  ivan                                          03:12
04  duck                                          06:21
05  clad                                          10:44
06  pelt                                          04:14
07  flew                                          09:17
08  robe                                          04:06

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