"...Satie-esque electronica..."
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
The first review in for vxvii. Marc Weidenbaum at Disquiet wrote a very nice review of the album, here's an excerpt.
"The latest Kikapu netlabel release, Mikronesia's vxvii, is one of its best ever - nine tracks of Satie-esque electronica....
....The Mikronesia collection serves as a fitting endpoint for the label, which has long emphasized gentle atmospherics, field recordings, and light glitch. (Kikapu also hosted its share of melodic, beat-driven electronica, which is virtually absent on this album.) The comparison to Satie is particularly strong in the watery piano on the opening piece, "She Brings" (MP3), but it's reinforced throughout due to an approach by which every track, no matter how loudly it is played, seeps into the background. Haunting voices are filtered through bells and reverb on "Hibersea" (MP3), and other high points include the textural white noise of "Moke Cene" (MP3) and the insectoid field recordings worked into "Part" (MP3). Get the full set at archive.org."
Read the entire review here.
"The latest Kikapu netlabel release, Mikronesia's vxvii, is one of its best ever - nine tracks of Satie-esque electronica....
....The Mikronesia collection serves as a fitting endpoint for the label, which has long emphasized gentle atmospherics, field recordings, and light glitch. (Kikapu also hosted its share of melodic, beat-driven electronica, which is virtually absent on this album.) The comparison to Satie is particularly strong in the watery piano on the opening piece, "She Brings" (MP3), but it's reinforced throughout due to an approach by which every track, no matter how loudly it is played, seeps into the background. Haunting voices are filtered through bells and reverb on "Hibersea" (MP3), and other high points include the textural white noise of "Moke Cene" (MP3) and the insectoid field recordings worked into "Part" (MP3). Get the full set at archive.org."
Read the entire review here.