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Recommended by us on 14th January 2011
...according to our Phil on Fri 14 Jan, 2011.
This sucker is part of a new series on the Preservation label called Circa. Only 300 made apparently 'n all! Is he from Italy? You'd think so given his name but I don't like jumping to conclusions and that. The music I've heard by him before has been on a more ambient tip but this is a bit different as it features drums.... In fact it features a chap called Rich Baker (who plays with Aidan) banging away fleshing the sound out in a way I wasn't expecting. In fact the the opener isn't a million miles away from Nadja, fuzzy doomy (ish) guitars smothered in feedback and effects over some slow echoey beats. It works really well actually. By track 3 it's turned into a psychedlic noise fest... I leapt out of my chair when it started. Wasn't expecting that level of noise. The albums veers from a more shoegazey fuzzy drone thing (with beats) to full rocking out instrumentals. Totally not what I expected but very entertaining indeed.
The Preservation label presents a new limited edition series entitled "CIRCA" first up is Stand Up Before Me, Oh My Soul! from Italy s Fabio Orsi. Fabio s prolific output has had him heralded as a master of modern ambience, creating rich, freeform atmospheres with organic instrumentation and processed sounds. Though known for momentous pieces of hypnotic power, this work marks a dynamic new turn in Fabio s sound. The force of his composition takes more of an overt stance on Stand Up Before Me, Oh My Soul!. The raw and primal pulse at the heart of his music is writ large here with a punk mindset, unleashing a heady mass of guitars against a backdrop of cavernous, shimmering distortion and crashing drums. (courtesy of Rich Baker, who also performs regularly with Nadja s Aidan Baker) It also boasts a bristling sense of lysergic, hazy melody. Brutal and glimmering, dark and beautiful, Stand Up Before Me, Oh My Soul! drops loud and large in pursuit of pure dissonant bliss. Stand Up Before Me, Oh My Soul! is the first in a new limited edition CD series from Preservation called Circa. 300 copies only will be available of each release in the series and each will feature a design by Mark Gowing. Each design will be realised using a specially created abstract alphabet of shapes, determined by artist, title and catalogue number for something both fixed and random.
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