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haruki - The Land That Lies Behind Us
Haruki is the recording alias of Belgian sound designer Boris Snauwaert, a resident of Ghent who creates abstract electroacoustic tapestries - intertwining sampled instrumental snippets with environmental recordings and well placed electronic drone tones. Opening track, 'The Quiet Side Of A Square' announces itself with a wayward squeal of sax before field recordings start to drag you off towards some unspecified mystery location. Before you really know what's going on a rickety deep bass rumble rises up and some sort of Eastern pipe begin to carve out a melody at the forefront of the mix. For want of a far better account of what this sounds like, it's faintly evocative of being chased around the belly of a submarine by a snake charmer. Snauwaert commences his second piece ('You Were Harmless') with a discordant tangle of sustaining tones, making for a more conventional drone outing, but one that's rendered fairly impressive by its level of nuance and uneasy harmonies. Far grubbier sounding is 'In The Time', whose metallic sustains have to jostle with distorted thrums and scrappy maintenance noises before getting a clear stretch to the finish. 'A Century Of Losses' offers a welcome turn towards more openly melodious soundscaping, even introducing a rather lovely final phase marked out by sparse piano keyings. Essentially, these are compositions that slot together as variants on a central sonic theme, and while the drones tend to dominate the recording, it's the curious location noises and hints towards an industrial setting that'll keep you listening carefully. Limited to 100 copies.
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