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Strie
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Description: | Outsize packaged CD on Soundscaping Records |
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| Format: | CD | |
| Genre(s): | Drone / Kosmische, Ambient | |
| Label: | Soundscaping | |
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£8.99 (sale price!)
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| Availability: | In stock. Dispatched in 1 working day. |
...according to our Phil on 14 October 2010.
This week we got a couple 'o tasty releases on the super reliable Soundscaping label. Based in Oslo they are knowledge gatherers. I always, always trust a label which releases a handful of things a year. They don't rush releases, they don't try and cram as many down your neck as possible (though I appreciate labels have to make a living!). But the ones who release 2-3 things a year are nearly always good. They take their time over each release and everything about it done perfectly. Soundscaping is one of those labels. They released one album in 2008 (Christophe Bailieau) and a Celer CD earlier this year. Sleptis by Strie is a curious album. It's packaged in one of their lovely oversized packages with the usual striking imagery. The music is all over the shop. There are Machinefabriek-esque tracks with weird frequencies and unnerving drones. There's tracks with loads of strange noises in, clattering beats and strong atmospherics. Many of the tracks here have melodies bursting out from underneath the darkness. There's an eerie feel to the album which isn't too opressive. It's the right side of eerie for me. Very slight jazz elements in there lurking, lots of synthetic strings (which is the only bit I'm not so keen on), electronics, mad unhinged piano, creaky doors and a general cinematic feel to it. It's a really interesting record and one that gets thumbs up from me!
Sléptis, translating to hidden from its original language, is the debut album of musician Strië. The music defines any particular genre classification, but includes elements that connects it with classical, jazz, electronic and is thoroughly drenched with cinematic aspects and borrows loosely from the neolithic genre acoustic doom. With this outset, and Strië described the album’s gestation process as one in which the sounds and the story of Sléptis sought her out, rather than vice versa, it is with a veil of the enigmatic and apparent semi-obscurity, Soundscaping releases its third title.
The songs of Sléptis meet the listener as a series of overlapping, recurring stories – fragmented in each track and also across the whole album. Strië weaves intricate and richly detailed soundscapes that creep into the corners of one’s imagination and probe and provoke to uncover the hidden aspects of the world portrayed in Sléptis. The sound is often nestled in familiar and warming tones, but the atmosphere just as easily shifts to cold and darker territories, tinkering with the alien and unseen, and in all of this Strië manages to retain a red line winding its way through her imaginative, sonic journey. Ultimately the message conveyed is left hanging in the air and up to the listener to determine, as such yielding both a pleasant listening experience as well as challenging the listener.
1. Expiring of Identity (06:31)
2. Alone in The Crowd (04:56)
3. Infected Realism (04:50)
4. Fading Away (05:19)
5. Hiding in The Wardrobe (05:28)
6. Simulated Sleep (04:49)
7. Fragments of The Past (05:52)
8. Crack in The Boards (04:39)
9. Excuse (05:00)
10. Subtraction (04:39)
