Francisco Lopez

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4...according to our Brett on Fri 26 Feb, 2010.

For about the first ten minutes of this CD I couldn't even hear anything without turning the volume knob up to stupid o' clock. Francisco Lopez I presume? Eventually the sound of a slight breeze appears, (VERY) gradually increases in intensity, (VERY) gradually decreases in intensity, rinses and repeats. Reviewing the sounds of pure windswept isolation isn't a particularly easy task when your skimming through it in a crowded office with people talking all manner of shite but I don't particularly get this fella in any case. Although I did like his La Selva one of field recording bits from years back. So yeah.

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All sound material has been created at mobile messor by Francisco López (Madrid, Murcia, Riga, Belgrade, Tel Aviv, Amsterdam), 2007-2009 © francisco lópez 2009

Francisco López is known all over the world as one of the main figures of all time experimental music. He performed in hundreds lives, projects and sound-sets in 60 countries of 5 continents and his huge discography has been released by more than 200 labels all over the world. His musical universe moves from human-ear limits to the deepest abysses of sonorous power and it is mostly composed of field recordings caught along the wildest areas of Earth or between the sounds of industrial world.

For “Amarok” composition two years of hard work have been employed using sounds and processed field
recordings. It’s a unequalled conceptual soundscape in this artist’s huge discography and it perfectly joins to Glacial Movements aesthetics. After a few seconds from the track beginning we are dip into an arctic trip which lasts more than an hour and in which tangled weavings in a masterly fashion handled by the Spanish artist appear, develop and dissolve. Gusts of arctic wind, the Amarok’s wheezing breath (Amarok is the name of a gigantic wolf in Inuit mythology) and the sense of loss in the polar night are only some of the sensations that this cryogenic hallucinatory acustic is able to evoke.
“Amarok is probably one of the more isolationist and spookiest work I’ve ever done” Francisco López,march 2009

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