Things Popping Up from the Past (Early Works)
Michel Banabila
Things Popping Up from the Past (Early Works)
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Michel Banabila is a sound artist, composer, and producer releasing music since 1983 including scores for numerous films, documentaries, theatre plays and choreographies. This album collects 11 songs from his early years, released on tape, vinyl EPs or limited CD editions.
"Numerous threads run through the music of Banabila, whose contemporary work ranges from adventurous electronic cross-breeding of chamber instrumentation, to industrial rhythmic sampling, to outwardbound modular synthesis, to deeply elegiac drones. The classical activity heard here constitutes a romantic attachment to the Old World, filtered through a contemporary sense of proportion. Banabila's piano, its atmospheric gestures bringing to mind the proto-minimalism of Erik Satie, echoes with a disarming simplicity.
The sweetness of the tune masks his determined compositional focus on loop-like repetitions, on the ever so slight variations between pulses, on training the listener's ear to hear inside the notes, between the notes, to be receptive to matters that are more tactile than tonal. The melody could easily be an additional hundred years old except for fact that the refined patterning is something that likely only could have been pursued in light of the music of Michael Nyman and Philip Glass."
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Boomkat Product Review:
Michel Banabila is a sound artist, composer, and producer releasing music since 1983 including scores for numerous films, documentaries, theatre plays and choreographies. This album collects 11 songs from his early years, released on tape, vinyl EPs or limited CD editions.
"Numerous threads run through the music of Banabila, whose contemporary work ranges from adventurous electronic cross-breeding of chamber instrumentation, to industrial rhythmic sampling, to outwardbound modular synthesis, to deeply elegiac drones. The classical activity heard here constitutes a romantic attachment to the Old World, filtered through a contemporary sense of proportion. Banabila's piano, its atmospheric gestures bringing to mind the proto-minimalism of Erik Satie, echoes with a disarming simplicity.
The sweetness of the tune masks his determined compositional focus on loop-like repetitions, on the ever so slight variations between pulses, on training the listener's ear to hear inside the notes, between the notes, to be receptive to matters that are more tactile than tonal. The melody could easily be an additional hundred years old except for fact that the refined patterning is something that likely only could have been pursued in light of the music of Michael Nyman and Philip Glass."
Boomkat Product Review:
Michel Banabila is a sound artist, composer, and producer releasing music since 1983 including scores for numerous films, documentaries, theatre plays and choreographies. This album collects 11 songs from his early years, released on tape, vinyl EPs or limited CD editions.
"Numerous threads run through the music of Banabila, whose contemporary work ranges from adventurous electronic cross-breeding of chamber instrumentation, to industrial rhythmic sampling, to outwardbound modular synthesis, to deeply elegiac drones. The classical activity heard here constitutes a romantic attachment to the Old World, filtered through a contemporary sense of proportion. Banabila's piano, its atmospheric gestures bringing to mind the proto-minimalism of Erik Satie, echoes with a disarming simplicity.
The sweetness of the tune masks his determined compositional focus on loop-like repetitions, on the ever so slight variations between pulses, on training the listener's ear to hear inside the notes, between the notes, to be receptive to matters that are more tactile than tonal. The melody could easily be an additional hundred years old except for fact that the refined patterning is something that likely only could have been pursued in light of the music of Michael Nyman and Philip Glass."
Boomkat Product Review:
Michel Banabila is a sound artist, composer, and producer releasing music since 1983 including scores for numerous films, documentaries, theatre plays and choreographies. This album collects 11 songs from his early years, released on tape, vinyl EPs or limited CD editions.
"Numerous threads run through the music of Banabila, whose contemporary work ranges from adventurous electronic cross-breeding of chamber instrumentation, to industrial rhythmic sampling, to outwardbound modular synthesis, to deeply elegiac drones. The classical activity heard here constitutes a romantic attachment to the Old World, filtered through a contemporary sense of proportion. Banabila's piano, its atmospheric gestures bringing to mind the proto-minimalism of Erik Satie, echoes with a disarming simplicity.
The sweetness of the tune masks his determined compositional focus on loop-like repetitions, on the ever so slight variations between pulses, on training the listener's ear to hear inside the notes, between the notes, to be receptive to matters that are more tactile than tonal. The melody could easily be an additional hundred years old except for fact that the refined patterning is something that likely only could have been pursued in light of the music of Michael Nyman and Philip Glass."
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Boomkat Product Review:
Michel Banabila is a sound artist, composer, and producer releasing music since 1983 including scores for numerous films, documentaries, theatre plays and choreographies. This album collects 11 songs from his early years, released on tape, vinyl EPs or limited CD editions.
"Numerous threads run through the music of Banabila, whose contemporary work ranges from adventurous electronic cross-breeding of chamber instrumentation, to industrial rhythmic sampling, to outwardbound modular synthesis, to deeply elegiac drones. The classical activity heard here constitutes a romantic attachment to the Old World, filtered through a contemporary sense of proportion. Banabila's piano, its atmospheric gestures bringing to mind the proto-minimalism of Erik Satie, echoes with a disarming simplicity.
The sweetness of the tune masks his determined compositional focus on loop-like repetitions, on the ever so slight variations between pulses, on training the listener's ear to hear inside the notes, between the notes, to be receptive to matters that are more tactile than tonal. The melody could easily be an additional hundred years old except for fact that the refined patterning is something that likely only could have been pursued in light of the music of Michael Nyman and Philip Glass."
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