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Recommended by us on 1st July 2010
...according to our Brian on Thu 01 Jul, 2010.
The press for this is astounding. It is a half hour drone/sound art thing and the feller who made it was touting it around as a recording that makes you go to sleep. Half the records we get in almost send me to sleep & that's not necessarily the droney ones. I like his honesty. Clint & I have the Gas boxset by our beds to go to sleep to. Could 'Ruis ' be ousting that particular chunk of German minimal wonderment? I'm really liking the quiet static, amorphous ambient tones & gentle tinkles of this somnolence encouraging epic, it could well be just your blissed ticket to snoozeville. If you're aware of Slaapwel, you'll know full well the quality that is awaiting your shell-likes. Lovely hand stamped arigato package with mounted piccy, this is not gonna be around for too long......
I was unaware of Bernard Zwijzen’s project Sonmi451 until he sent me an email saying the music he was sculpting was sleepy too. Obviously I was interested, but told him Slaapwel is not a joke. Sleepy music is not enough: it has to work, I need to fall asleep before I can even think of releasing it. He promptly made a 32 minute piece aimed at making people fall asleep. I tried and I slept. The piece is a wonderful walk along slowly pulsating sine waves, lingering piano loops, cradling strings and the solar warmth of little cracks, pops and soft hisses. Ruis truly is a hidden treasure. At first it seems to be nothing more but a lovely track, “ordinary” prettiness, though once you put it on while you’re trying to sleep, it becomes as essential as your pillow or your favorite blanket. It is probably the most efficient piece we’ve had the chance to release. A lush, soft and hypnotic path into unconsciousness.
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