Novi Sad - Funkel

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4...according to our Business Lady on Thu 23 Apr, 2009.

Novisad: a.k.a Kristian Peters creates conceptual soundscapes as opposed to traditionally structured music. The tracks on 'Funkel' are sonic chunks of manipulation based solely on guitar samples Kristian has been storing up in his computer machine. He is obviously inspired by the infinite possibilities presented by the cutting and pasting of guitars and has plowed the terrain well and truly on this release.The music is soft and heartfelt without ever introducing vocals or obvious emotional motifs and he makes the guitar sound like the most beautiful instrument in the world. It shares a little in common with the likes of Four Tet and Boards of Canada for its uncanny ability to project emotional concepts via synthetic, electronic music but it's predominantly loop based so it appears more spaced out and dreamy with less focus on structural development and obvious pay-off moments. Sound scraps of joy.

The third novisad collects songs that were made during a
timespan of more than 7 years. Each song tells it's own story
and describes a distinct emotion. I think that each also represents a
special part in my life. novisad is very personal music that comes
from heart. That may is the reason why I can't tell much more about
it, because you just can't talk a lot about emotions. So why not let
the music tell the story for you and discover it for yourself.
The album starts with the song funkel that originally was made
for a live performance with Jürgen de Blonde at the kraak festival
back in 2001. The sounds on untitled 2 came from Aaron & Sandra
from the Lucky Kitchen. At this time I figured out that a guitar is an
instrument with nfinite ways of sound. So you can see this novisad
also as a concept album that was made only out of guitar samples I
collected from here and there. From an experimental start the
album gets more and more intense.
For me this novisad will mostly be music for the time after that
reminds myself that all things must come to an end - eventually.
about Novisad:

tracklisting:

01. funkel
02. song 2
03. untitled 1
04. song 1
05. untitled 3
06. raindrops
07. untitled 4
08. untitled 9
09. tokimeki – pingpong
10. pingpong
11. restspielzeit
12. yappari
13. distant vicinity
14. tine
15. verlauf
16. untitled2
17. kaeri
18. abbild