Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Ariel Kalma
FRKWYS Vol. 12: We Know Each Other Somehow
*Rob Aiki Lowe re-appears alongside French synth voyager Ariel Kalma with quite possibly the finest release on RVNG yet following that killer side for Type a couple of years back. Highly recommended!* The FRKWYS series has a tendency to turn out some really inspired unions, and this ranks among their best. Recorded just outside of Mullimbimby, a remote community on the eastern Australian coast, it marks a pineal, inter-generational journey aligning Kalma's naturalist tendency and invaluable background working at the GRM with Lowe's malleable modular synth visions. "A Journey" is such a cliched term but it feels like we travel light years from the comfort of our chair across its 1 hour and 26 minute expanse, whether melting into the deliquescent modular strokes and dense detailed field recordings woven with Kalma's sax flights in the 17 minute mind-opener 'Magick Creek', or scaling the harmonic heights of 'Mille Voix and crashing to the percussive voodoo of 'Gongmo Kalma Lowe', there's a sort of kinaesthetic push-and-push to their recordings, feeling at once perpetually in motion yet ritually centred and still. They're certainly at best when not watching the clock and allowing time to really explore each others unique timbre and tone, as with the 16 minutes of throaty Raga drones in 'Wasp Happening', and when they return to the "collective voice" of birdsongs, creeks and ambient sonics wrapped to the primally motorik pulses of 'Miracle Mile'. Either my fan is on too cold or i've just been shivering from the pure bliss of it all the way thru...
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*Rob Aiki Lowe re-appears alongside French synth voyager Ariel Kalma with quite possibly the finest release on RVNG yet following that killer side for Type a couple of years back. Highly recommended!* The FRKWYS series has a tendency to turn out some really inspired unions, and this ranks among their best. Recorded just outside of Mullimbimby, a remote community on the eastern Australian coast, it marks a pineal, inter-generational journey aligning Kalma's naturalist tendency and invaluable background working at the GRM with Lowe's malleable modular synth visions. "A Journey" is such a cliched term but it feels like we travel light years from the comfort of our chair across its 1 hour and 26 minute expanse, whether melting into the deliquescent modular strokes and dense detailed field recordings woven with Kalma's sax flights in the 17 minute mind-opener 'Magick Creek', or scaling the harmonic heights of 'Mille Voix and crashing to the percussive voodoo of 'Gongmo Kalma Lowe', there's a sort of kinaesthetic push-and-push to their recordings, feeling at once perpetually in motion yet ritually centred and still. They're certainly at best when not watching the clock and allowing time to really explore each others unique timbre and tone, as with the 16 minutes of throaty Raga drones in 'Wasp Happening', and when they return to the "collective voice" of birdsongs, creeks and ambient sonics wrapped to the primally motorik pulses of 'Miracle Mile'. Either my fan is on too cold or i've just been shivering from the pure bliss of it all the way thru...
*Rob Aiki Lowe re-appears alongside French synth voyager Ariel Kalma with quite possibly the finest release on RVNG yet following that killer side for Type a couple of years back. Highly recommended!* The FRKWYS series has a tendency to turn out some really inspired unions, and this ranks among their best. Recorded just outside of Mullimbimby, a remote community on the eastern Australian coast, it marks a pineal, inter-generational journey aligning Kalma's naturalist tendency and invaluable background working at the GRM with Lowe's malleable modular synth visions. "A Journey" is such a cliched term but it feels like we travel light years from the comfort of our chair across its 1 hour and 26 minute expanse, whether melting into the deliquescent modular strokes and dense detailed field recordings woven with Kalma's sax flights in the 17 minute mind-opener 'Magick Creek', or scaling the harmonic heights of 'Mille Voix and crashing to the percussive voodoo of 'Gongmo Kalma Lowe', there's a sort of kinaesthetic push-and-push to their recordings, feeling at once perpetually in motion yet ritually centred and still. They're certainly at best when not watching the clock and allowing time to really explore each others unique timbre and tone, as with the 16 minutes of throaty Raga drones in 'Wasp Happening', and when they return to the "collective voice" of birdsongs, creeks and ambient sonics wrapped to the primally motorik pulses of 'Miracle Mile'. Either my fan is on too cold or i've just been shivering from the pure bliss of it all the way thru...
Vinyl back in stock - 2LP in a gatefold sleeve with DVD and digital download code redeemable from the label.
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*Rob Aiki Lowe re-appears alongside French synth voyager Ariel Kalma with quite possibly the finest release on RVNG yet following that killer side for Type a couple of years back. Highly recommended!* The FRKWYS series has a tendency to turn out some really inspired unions, and this ranks among their best. Recorded just outside of Mullimbimby, a remote community on the eastern Australian coast, it marks a pineal, inter-generational journey aligning Kalma's naturalist tendency and invaluable background working at the GRM with Lowe's malleable modular synth visions. "A Journey" is such a cliched term but it feels like we travel light years from the comfort of our chair across its 1 hour and 26 minute expanse, whether melting into the deliquescent modular strokes and dense detailed field recordings woven with Kalma's sax flights in the 17 minute mind-opener 'Magick Creek', or scaling the harmonic heights of 'Mille Voix and crashing to the percussive voodoo of 'Gongmo Kalma Lowe', there's a sort of kinaesthetic push-and-push to their recordings, feeling at once perpetually in motion yet ritually centred and still. They're certainly at best when not watching the clock and allowing time to really explore each others unique timbre and tone, as with the 16 minutes of throaty Raga drones in 'Wasp Happening', and when they return to the "collective voice" of birdsongs, creeks and ambient sonics wrapped to the primally motorik pulses of 'Miracle Mile'. Either my fan is on too cold or i've just been shivering from the pure bliss of it all the way thru...
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*Rob Aiki Lowe re-appears alongside French synth voyager Ariel Kalma with quite possibly the finest release on RVNG yet following that killer side for Type a couple of years back. Highly recommended!* The FRKWYS series has a tendency to turn out some really inspired unions, and this ranks among their best. Recorded just outside of Mullimbimby, a remote community on the eastern Australian coast, it marks a pineal, inter-generational journey aligning Kalma's naturalist tendency and invaluable background working at the GRM with Lowe's malleable modular synth visions. "A Journey" is such a cliched term but it feels like we travel light years from the comfort of our chair across its 1 hour and 26 minute expanse, whether melting into the deliquescent modular strokes and dense detailed field recordings woven with Kalma's sax flights in the 17 minute mind-opener 'Magick Creek', or scaling the harmonic heights of 'Mille Voix and crashing to the percussive voodoo of 'Gongmo Kalma Lowe', there's a sort of kinaesthetic push-and-push to their recordings, feeling at once perpetually in motion yet ritually centred and still. They're certainly at best when not watching the clock and allowing time to really explore each others unique timbre and tone, as with the 16 minutes of throaty Raga drones in 'Wasp Happening', and when they return to the "collective voice" of birdsongs, creeks and ambient sonics wrapped to the primally motorik pulses of 'Miracle Mile'. Either my fan is on too cold or i've just been shivering from the pure bliss of it all the way thru...