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alva noto - For 2
A second album of dedications from Carsten Nicolai, once again presented by 12k offshoot label Line. Perhaps reflective of how varied this artist's output has become over recent years 'For 2' represents an incredibly broad range of styles and approaches, though the music always manages to retain the all-important sonic signatures unique to the Alva Noto sound. Over the past decade or so Nicolai's music has transcended the hyper-minimal rhythmic motifs that defined so much of his early work, exploring the possibilities of collaboration, live instrumentation and reconstituted orchestral ambience among other things. Accordingly, on For 2 (which collects music made between 2003 and 2008) you can expect surely the most expansive repertoire of sounds than has ever been gathered for a single Alva Noto album, something that's in-keeping with the diverse set of dedications - works for Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, fellow minimalist composer Phill Niblock, industrial designer Dieter Rams and dramatist Heiner Muller are all included, prompting greatly diverging works from Nicolai. The first piece isn't dedicated to an artist, or even a human being at all, but rather a translucent textile. This composition seems to cut itself into sections, with Noto's trademark glitching wave patterns joining with string ensemble-style chord movements and harsh, industrial sounding noise inserts. Following on is 'Villa Aurora (For Marta Feuchtwanger)', an immensely subtle field recording that captures the decay of a sustaining piano chord before it's snuffed out by the closing piano lid, leaving only the bustle of exterior environmental noises. This isn't the last time on the disc that Nicolai draws our ears to the narrative-warping potential and all-round beauty of music in decay: 'Anthem Berlin' (dedicated to Leif Elggren and Carl Michael Von Hausswolf's fictional Kingdom Of Elgaland-Vargaland) plays a similar trick, taking a sample of a militaristic marching band and spiralling the snare's sound off across several minutes of sustaining, treated resonance. There's a surprisingly strong melodic component to this selection too, with the wonderful 'Stalker (For Andrei Tarkovsky)' and two different versions of 'Argonaut (For Heiner Muller)' - one of which is arranged for live classical instrumentation - both exhibiting a keen ear for minimalist harmonic progressions. Much of this music is caught in a continual dialogue between outright beauty and more uncompromisingly conceptual, experimental pursuits. At one end of this we find the synaesthetic, Evgeny Murzin-inspired visual-to-audio synthesizer piece, 'Ans', while at the other there's the quietly heart-wrenching 'Early Winter', which samples a Phill Niblock recording - slowly and elegiacally evolving what sounds like a looped orchestral passage while sonar-blip electronics sound off in the background. A hugely impressive account of Carsten Nicolai's talents as a musician and artist, 'For 2' comes with a massive recommendation.
Raster Noton
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Amazing cochlea engulfing bass tones and ultra-visceral edits from rhythmic auteur Frank Bretschneider.
Kranky
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The fifth album from Scott Morgan on Kranky, featuring a vocal contribution from Destroyer's Daniel Bejar
ALVA NOTO AND RYUICHI SAKAMOTO
Raster Noton
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Download edition of this brand new Alva Noto and Sakamoto release. Highly Recommended.
Auf Abwegen
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The veteran German composer delivers a absorbing five-track work based upon the sonorities of paper
ANBB (ALVA NOTO & BLIXA BARGELD)
Raster Noton
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The much-anticipated debut full-length from this Alva Noto/Blixa Bargeld collaboration
SND
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The third in a trilogy of albums released by SND for the Mille Plateaux label, originally released in 2002.
ACTRESS / MARIA MINERVA / TIM HECKER / LEYLAND KIRBY / ALVA NOTO
John Cale: Extra Playful Transitions
Double Six Records
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Perfectly curated selection of remixes Feat Actress, Leyland Kirby, Tim Hecker, Alva Noto and more.
ANNE-JAMES CHATON WITH ALVA NOTO & ANDY MOOR
raster-noton
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Documenting a collaboration between Anne-James Chaton, Andy Moor and Carsten 'Alva Noto' Nicolai.
ALVA NOTO AND RYUICHI SAKAMOTO
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The fifth and purportedly final collaborative album from the Sakamoto and Nicolai.
KANGDING RAY / ALVA NOTO / BEN FROST
Raster Noton
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Enhanced and incredibly produced bass music including remixes from Alva Noto and Ben Frost.
ANBB (ALVA NOTO & BLIXA BARGELD)
Raster Noton
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Two of the most distinctive presences in experimental music unite for this stunning new collaborative venture.
GREIE GUT FRAKTION / ALVA NOTO / WOLFGANG VOIGT
Monika Enterprise
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Absolutely killer remix package including an Alva Noto remix, and two from Wolfgang Voigt!
Line
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Sublime ghostly loops and Basinski-style layered echoes of sound.
Line
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Line's latest release comes from Chicago's Scott Cortez, RIYL Fennesz, Eno or Robin Guthrie.
Line
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Excellent album from Bretschneider produced on a Subharchord, an obscure 1960's electronic module.
ROBERT CURGENVEN + RICHARD CHARTIER
Line
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Built Through' is a visceral, engrossing exploration of "acoustic architecture"
STEPHAN MATHIEU & CARO MIKALEF
Line
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Stephan Mathieu follows up last years 'Remain' with a much darker episode entitled 'Radioland (Panorámica)'.
Line
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Montreal's I8U, known for releases on Room40 and Atak, presents her first recordings as France Jobin.
Line
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A wide canvas of micro sounds from renowned visual/sound artist Steve Roden.
Line
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A typically elegant and challenging offering courtesy of veteran electronic music pioneer Asmus Tietchens.
Line
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Roden working with a series of tones from a battery powered Paia Oz.
Eight Studies for Automatic Piano
Line
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Completely brilliant, brain-boxing suite of piano minimalism from Seth Horvitz, aka Sutekh.
Line
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**Serene ambient/drone tapestry from acclaimed New York sound artist**
BLAST FIRST PETITE
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Incredible album from Mika & Ilpo, with contributions from Hildur Gudnadottir on Cello. Highly Recommended.
SND
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The classic debut album from SND, originally released in 1999 on Mille Plateaux.
