| 01 |
Xerrox Phaser Acat 1 |
12:11 | ||
| 02 |
Xerrox Rin |
0:52 | $0.99 | |
| 03 |
Xerrox Soma |
7:11 | $0.99 | |
| 04 |
Xerrox Meta Phaser |
6:24 | $0.99 | |
| 05 |
Xerrox Sora |
6:54 | $0.99 | |
| 06 |
Xerrox Monophaser 1 |
8:04 | $0.99 | |
| 07 |
Xerrox Monophaser 2 |
5:32 | $0.99 | |
| 08 |
Xerrox Teion |
2:03 | $0.99 | |
| 09 |
Xerrox Teion Acat |
5:26 | $0.99 | |
| 10 |
Xerrox Tek Part 1 |
5:28 | $0.99 | |
| 11 |
Xerrox Monophaser 3 |
6:15 | $0.99 |
Xerox (Vol 1 and 2) are successful at creating beauty from digital crunch. I needed to take a break from all Alva after my ears started ringing. Even at low volumes-- there's a lot going on. What inspires me about his work is his sound pallet. Some sounds are almost inaudible-- but you can feel them. Listening to Xerox (especially Vol 2) on an excellent pair of headphones-- one might forget who they are.
Seems odd to write a review of an AN release, since I buy all of them no matter the style. This, however, warrants as much praise as can be heaped upon it. The Monophaser tracks alone are worth the cost. Perhaps the deepest and most awe-inspiring music since ...
As Fennesz puts it, noise can be beautiful and noise-music can wield a strong hypnotic power. That certainly applies here. On opener Phaser Acat 1, a simple instrumental pattern is shrouded in a thin veil of shimmering static, slowly achieving the mesmerizing effect that Fennesz is talking about through repetition and textural haze. At other times, strings are buried deep beneath a dense cloud of white noise. It's like wading through a thick fog with the tantelizing glimmer of sunlight vaguely shining through in the distance. A truly mesmerizing album. Read full review on http//tigon.typepad.com.
Proviso: I like this kind of "music" a lot. I can't write or speak intelligently about it though. But I can say that I enjoy the calming mix of white noise and the random sounds that fade in and out as the pieces progress. This particular CD (and this music in general) transcends traditional aesthetic boundaries, but I enjoy it immensely. For me, Xerrox Vol. 2 is as classic as Oval's 94 Diskont, which is among the best of the genre.
Alva Noto returns with a second installment in his five-part planned Xerrox series. On this follow up to Xerrox Vol. 1 (Raster-Noton, 2007), Carsten Nicolai turns up the volume in static electricity working with the concept of copying sounds. A copy of a copy of a copy in digital format may be flawless, so what does Nicolai do? For this feat, Nicolai along with Christoph Brünggel created a "sample transformer". This software manipulation device downsamples, chops and fragments the original source, until it no longer resembles itself, becoming an error prone original, becoming a copy corrupted with noise, becoming a newly created entity in itself. Read full review on headphonecommute.com
It's really the same rather glitchy deep noise that Alvo Nota is known for...with a tad more melody/harmony. Not enough to merit a repeat listen in my opinion. I love good ambient music, but this just sounds like my sound system is broken and is suffering from digital clock issues.
This is Alva Noto with a difference. It's softer at the edges but not at the core. There are new dramatic elements, maybe even cinematic. The sound-field is wider, more space to be pulled in to. But it's still solidly Alva Noto, he's just heading over new horizons. I'm going to say it's his best yet.
Possibly Alva Noto's best yet. Every damn second is delicious. I waited patiently for my credits to renew and BAM! I haven't downloaded anything else since, just listen to this one on repeat. I'm going to go listen to it some more - you should too.
