Another post from the bowels of my unattended queue: Things what which didn't merit their own post for my end of year round up, but are great none the less. Deaf Center - Owl Splinters Toro Y Moi - Underneath The Pine Crystal Antlers - Two Way Mirror [...]
There was so much really great music that I heard this year, to the point that putting together these lists was quite difficult and time-consuming. But even so, there are still a lot more albums out there that were recommended to me by others that I simply never got the chance to hear, as well as some that I felt needed more listens for me to fully absorb them, so they sadly won't be showing up on here (Danny Brown, Julianna Barwick, The Weeknd, Fucked Up, PJ Harvey, Main Attrakionz, Tune-yards, Yuck…I could go on and on). I'll [...]
Destello from Ivan Villafuerte on Vimeo . A certain juxtaposition of image and sound that gets into just the right zone of resonance and removal: videos by Ivan Villafuerte , stumbled on while researching d_rradio . The above features "The Atomium - Part Two" by Stars of the Lid and "Early Evening Reverie" by Auburn Lull. More of the vision thing: "Still In A Storm" and "Death Of The Fair Green Veil" by d_rradio Opsin from Ivan Villafuerte on [...]
Deaf Center — "Owl Splinters" Type There's a moment at the 4:52 mark of "Close Forever Watching", the penultimate track on Owl Splinters , where Otto Totland and Erik Skodvin get as close as anyone has this year to making my heart stop. It's at this interval that song's rumbling crescendo of static and strings suddenly plummets , absorbed into the vacuum of a single piano note. [...]
For their first album in six years, Norway's Deaf Center move beyond the low-fidelity experimentalism of their past toward a more vibrant veneer enhanced by high-end analog engineering gear. For their first album since 2005's acclaimed Pale Ravine, the Norwegian duo of Erik Skodvin and Otto Totland, known as Deaf Center, moves beyond the low-fidelity experimentalism of its past toward a more vibrant veneer enhanced by high-end analog engineering gear. The end result is the spectacular Owl Spinters, eight compositions of shimmering black ambience that boast a powerful new sense of grandiosity and catapult Totland's piano and Skodvin's cello [...]
As I'm sure you're all aware, tomorrow marks the dawning of the Rapture (6 P.M. Eastern Standard Time), in which believers will be whisked off to eternal salvation while the earth's tainted masses (see: atheists, mimes, music bloggers) will be sentenced to 5 months of pestilence, famine, and other vaguely unfavorable things. Because you'll need a kickin' rad soundtrack to spin while the locusts devour you whole, we've assembled Repent! , a mix of 17 songs steeped in that sweet End Times Flavor™. Enjoy, and pick up a t-shirt while you're at it. [...]
RIYL = Max Richter, Greg Haines, A Broken Consort You get the sense that, when listening to Owl Splinters , the end really is nigh. The ominousness of it all -- Deaf Center burrowing forever into a minor key. What I can only imagine as being orchestrated in an ice-cold meat locker, the pieces presented on Owl Splinters inhabit the thick-aired space of time just before the death-scythe slides into your chest. It's that piqued tension brooding in advance of imminent destruction. Softly plinking pianos, like keys of ice, and madly [...]
Dusted reviews the excellent new Deaf Center album "Owl splinters" : http://dustedmagazine.com/revi ews/6342
Cuando algo es bueno se nota enseguida. Sin la necesidad de hablar de marcas, sabemos que una buena chaqueta, un perfume fino o un vino de reserva, se percibe apenas entra en contacto con nuestros sentidos. Con el nuevo disco de Deaf Center ocurre algo similar. Basta la entrada densa con "Divided", para darse cuenta del nivel óptimo de producción de este álbum, sucesor de Pale Ravine ( Type , 2005), disco clave en el estilo neo clásico que ellos desarrollan. Ya en aquel entonces sentaron bases con esta gran producción que daría para hacer otra [...]
Stimulation to live vitally and mysteriously.
The Silent Ballet praises the latest Deaf Center album "Owl splinters" : http://thesilentballet.com/dnn /Home/tabid/36/ctl/Details/mid /384/ItemID/3973/Default.aspx
Mar 11, 2011, 6:37pm
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Decided to do a quick badly-mixed mix today. A bunch of stuff I'm really enjoying at the moment. Most of this music is from the first 3 or 4 months of 2011, including a couple yet-to-be-released tracks. Like I said above: it's badly mixed, so don't expect too much. Track list and download link below. Chicken, Waffles, and Robots Download 01. Demdike Stare — Quiet Sky (Modern Love) 02. Deaf Center — Divided (Type) 03. [...]
Photo by Kimberly Sikyea [ Type Records ] ( buy vinyl ) ( buy CD ) ( buy mp3s ) The first release on John Twells' Type Records was a short album called Neon City by the Norwegian duo of Erik Skodvin and Otto Totland. Type Records had risen from the ashes of Neo Ouija's and Twells project Xela, but had increasingly veered away from the enchantingly fractured IDM Neo Ouija was known for, with Xela's experiments with [...]
Deaf Center : your soundtrack for crawling into a dark hole to die. Actually, the music on their new album "Owl splinters" is often quite beautiful, but yeah, not necessarily healthy for susceptible listeners. Everyone else, consider this highly recommended.
Fluid Radio interviews Norwegian ambient/drone duo Deaf Center : http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2 011/02/deaf-center-interview/
( email | facebook | linkedin ) February 7: Ravedeath, 1972 , by Tim Hecker February 8: Acoustic Tales , by Field Rotation February 13: Owl Splinters , by Deaf Center ....and February 22: Lumiere , by Dustin O'Halloran ? Stay tuned, minions.
Terwijl iedereen naar die oppervlakkige plaat van James Blake luistert, zet ik het langverwachte Owl Splinters van Deaf Center op. Die bevalt een stuk beter. Het is alweer een tijd geleden dat het Noorse duo, bestaande uit Erik Skodvin en Otto Totland, van zich liet horen. Het lange wachten op de opvolger van Pale Ravine uit 2005 blijkt gelukkig de moeite waard. Meer dan ooit zoeken de heren de confrontatie tussen pikzwarte ambient en neoklassieke klanken van piano en cello op; een tweestrijd tussen onheil en fortuin, gespeeld met intense droefenis over [...]
Its been quite a few years since Pale Ravine first darkened the Raven doorstep and ushered in an era of Norwegian doom that we've never quite recovered from; but now the duo have reconnected and let slink into the night another piece of their tattered souls. In the interim Skodvin, the cellist half of the duo, has spent more time eking out his place amongst music's darker recesses with his night terror inducing works as Svarte Greiner. Now that sense of dread combines with Totland's fragile, bittersweet piano for the full cinematic sense of tension and release. Just [...]
Deaf Center — New Beginning (Tidal Darkness) Damn, Type Records knows how to pick 'em. "New Beginning" is the latest pitch-black cut from Deaf Center (Erik Skodvin and Otto Totland), who have a brand new album in the pipeline. Kill the lights, draw the blinds, and enjoy.
Sinds het prachtige Pale Ravine uit 2005 is het stil geweest rondom het duo Deaf Center. Niet dat Erik Skodvin en Otto Totland stil hebben gezeten. Eerstgenoemde is onder meer onder zijn eigen naam en als Svarte Greiner actief geweest en Totland maakte weer deel uit van Nest . Owl Splinters heet het nieuwe album van het Noorweegse duo. Het is al uit op vinyl en volgt in februari ook op cd. Luister alvast de track 'New Beginning (Tidal Darkness)'. Een onheilspellende eerste helft die overgaat in kalmerend en minimalistisch [...]
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