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Welcome to Skare with some textbook glacial ambience courtesy of the rather useful Glacial Movements label. I like a bit of this I do. The entire label's output is based around cold dark sounding glacial ambience which weirdly makes you feel a bit chilly while it's on. I might have to crank the fire up! Skare are obsessed by the circulation of snow, water and ice so I guess that fits into the whole cold thing nicely. The 1st couple of tracks are very much glacial ambience by numbers. If you like ambient music that's very isolationist and windy sounding then that's what you're getting. The last track (all 26 minutes of it) builds up with crackles and fizzes and some nice tones and eerie samples which separate this from the usual ambient droney sods. It's good. The last track in particular is making me feel well spaced out. Could be the 11 hour shift I've just done though. 'Solstice City' is CD only and it should come with a free penguin. Maybe I'll get a pack from the shops on the way back! 1.To The Other Shore[3.14]
2.Through Wind And Broken Ice[20.49]
3. The Snow Angel Factory[26.35]
All sound material has been digitally processed and arranged at Studio 3, EMS in Stockholm, Sweden, 2006
A Glacial Movements Records release, February 2009.
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Skare is the collaboration of Mathias Josefson (Moljebka Pvlse), Fredrik Olofsson and Per Åhlund. The members of Skare are all fascinated by the circulation of water, snow and ice. The metamorphosis from gas to floating liquid to snow to solid ice through freezing, the light reflecting from the snow and filtered through the ice as a prisma and - most of all - the sound of this ever ongoing circle.
Skare's first album, Solstice City, is an interpretation of a journey through a shifting landscape where the city meets nature. Departing from a distant and foreign shore, the traveller embarks a ship, uncertain of his destination. This prelude, introduced vividly in "To the other shore", releases this pilgrim to further explore yet unchartered territories. Leaving all man-made conventions, the second track "Through Wind and Broken Ice" takes us where the city imitates nature. Finally, a factory appears in the whiteout; a place where angels are manufactured as presented in the final track "The Snow Angel Factory"...The vehicles used by Skare on this journey are field recordings, found sounds and treated and manipulated instruments.
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