big album,texture,structure...dark,noise,industrial ciao Simone

KRAFTIM, ça s'écoute tranquillou, allongé dans son hamac de fortune ... le sofa de "Mémé La Plante" fera l'affaire. Position de, "j'me la coule douce" avec l'idée aujourd'hui de, "C'est clair j'plante pas d'la salade". "Mémé la plante" sait recevoir ... Décoction avant départ dans l'intersidéral, haut lieu de vie ou réside la camarade KRAFTIM ... Grand prêtre d'une musique psychédélique et ambiant, KRAFTIM l'accompagnateur, sait là ou il doit nous mener afin que l'on puisse entrevoir a travers les hautes herbes à "têtes précieuses", la fameuse réserve d'éléphants rose tant décriée par les non adorateurs de l'herbe bleue ... A.n.K.h // Eryk-C

this album is another 100% Kraftim album full of new soundscaping. Each track well produced noise-scaping ambient. But personally i need some more epic development via melodies and stuff. the music stays quiet abstract and industrial. Maybe i'm, looking in the wrong corner of the abmient galaxy here ;) nice stuff, i recommend it to hardcore ambient and /or noise lovers.

A grand beginning. A lovely, luscious flow of noise in the big atmospheric structure style. Bearth is the particle grinding universe full of twinkling burning stars. Not just depth, but also dimensionality, a multiverse even! How difficult that must be to encapsulate into a few minutes of creative expression. Echoes in space and time, or timeless dripping of subterranean stalagtites echoing in space and time. Chicken/egg, etc. Towards the end it calms and finds its orbital velocity and path, around your mind, leaving you in a state of wonder at the beauty of it all. Arktig picks up with a similar essence at first, but then lightens with an almost ceremonial melody, with room for some obscure chanting perhaps but very nice atmosphere all the same. Then you realise that not all the layers are going the same speed, but not until they meet and unify into a brilliant construction of sound and rhythm. Gentler than the first track, though nonetheless for that. More subtle in its strength of existence, finishing with a prehistoric tribal beat. That sense of ancient beings continues to appear, in another form called Hopeman. Like an archaic recantation from beings beyond our human comprehension. KraftiMs work often brings Lovecraftian imagery to mind, and these tracks (so far) are certainly no exception. I love them, like they are my barely tangible friends in life. Stereophonic treasures to behold and enjoy their presence through my speakers. Thank goodness for the wonders of technology, thank goodness for devoted, creative artists. Ancient Species said it all a few months ago for me and this album is reiterating the sense of style and particular poise of the creator. Fantastic track. Moncor plays on my heart, delicately. An almost imperceptible pulsation of life, the core of a swarm of sound construction. A scattering of a huge, immense flock of mothlike creatures into the dark night of existence. Fleeting, almost transparent but very much alive with feeling and spirit of darkness. I feel like I'm floating into a void, an abyss of sound. Suddenly, the whole world passes by. Only to be overborne with flying entities. Full of drama and passion, immediacy. Beware! The trudge of hordes of walking entities joins the army of the artists full imaginative sway. From here to there and back again. Viscous fluidity and thunderclaps from when the world was first born. That is some level of aetheric aura to contemplate. Gaia at her birth and the commencement of life on earth itself. Perfect primordial pitchshifting and the soft crunch of bio-organic gears and the huge beast of life begins to emerge from the sea. That is Turtel. Then it disperses and stutters its primeval song, a celebration from the deepest abyss, it rises for air, to its final crescendo. Quite tuneful, Drast appears on my screen and through my speakers. There remains that sense of aeons past. Then a deeply resonant reverberation takes over the show, to flow majestically around the room. Again, a sense of ancient tribalism, before words, before music. Essentially reaching the very core of the soul of total being from the very start of that atomic combination. Atoms and electrons, making strange, quarky friends. The pulsating genius of KraftiM strikes again. All buttons pressed and dials turned to maximum. Nice one!-)

I love industrial, ambient, dark ambient, soundscapes, strange noise and audio manipulation. This cd has a bit of it all.

"Bearth" è un brano che già conosco. Era presente in Solyuga EP. E' un grande brano che amo. Ha tanta energia e luce, ed all'interno di queste c'è calma; una calma che sorprende e ti porta nel presente con una forza straordinaria. E' veramente un brano da collezione. C'è un suono che somiglia a quello di un uccello ed intorno a te le pulsazioni vitali si possono percepire in modo impressionante. Il senso dello spazio è così intenso da farti sentire ciò che vedi, tu sei ciò che vedi. Ed in questo è anche commovente. Mi ricorda la foresta, con i suoi alberi mossi dal vento. E' il gioco della creazione portato davanti ai tuoi occhi. Non credo sia possibile pretendere di più dalla musica(10). "Arktig" non ha questa forza. Rappresenta un percorso o un cammino. Posso sentire il movimento verso una direzione ed il punto di arrivo(8). "Hopeman" è il nuovo luogo dove KraftiM vi ha portato. Mi piace molto, mi guardo intorno e c'è il senso del nuovo e del mistero. E' bello sentire questo sentimento e posso già dire che anche questo brano mi prenderà il cuore(10). "Moncor" era presente in Solyuga EP; è particolare e a me piace molto. Qui sono proiettato nel mio corpo e i miei occhi osservano me stesso dal di dentro. Anche questo è un brano che amo. "Turtel" è piacevole per gli inserimenti noise e strumentali che sembrano aprire porte. Guardi attraverso esse e poi le porte si richiudono. Direi che è un bel brano, ha fascino ed un mistero in stile moderno(10). "Drast" è anch'esso un brano moderno ma nelle percussioni si respira anche l'antico e per questo mi piace(8). Questa recensione è anche qui: http://suonolibero.wordpress.com/2009/02/13/kraftim-depht-un-viaggio-nel-qui-ed-ora-a-journey-in-the-here-and-now/ "Bearth" is a song I already know. It was in Solyuga EP. It's a great song that I love. It has so much energy and light, and within these there is calm, a calm that surprises and takes you in the here and now with extraordinary strength. It's truly a collectible piece. There is a sound that resembles a bird and around you the vital pulse can be perceived so impressive. The sense of space is so intense for you to feel what you see, you are what you see. And this is also moving. Reminds me the forest with its trees moved by the wind. And the game of creation brought before your eyes. I do not think we can expect more from the music (10). "Arktig" does not have this strength. Represents a path. I can feel the movement toward one direction and point of arrival (8). "Hopeman" is the new place where KraftiM led you. I like very much, I look around and there's a sense of new and mystery. This is beautiful feeling, and I can already say that this track will take my heart(10). "Moncor" was in Solyuga EP; it's special and I like a lot. Here I am inside my body and my eyes watching me from within. This is another song that I love. "Turtel" is enjoyable for the placement of noise or instrumental that seems to open doors. Look through them and then the doors are closed. Say it's a beautiful song, has a charm and mystery in a modern style(10). Drast" is also a modern piece, but in the percussion, is too ancient and I like(8).

unheimlich gut ... Ich bin wahnsinnig erstaunt, wie man doch eher mit eigenartigen Klängen, solch harmonisch und melodiösen Songs schaffen kann. Bearth is einfach unglaublich, ich liebe diesen Song wirklich, obwohl es nicht wirklich einfach Klänge sind, empfand ich es so, als würden Vögel zwitschern und ich mitten in der Natur sitzen und das Schauspiel der Natur live erleben ... Wirklich einmalig ...

I like it, a little more agressive I think. I especially enjoyed Hopeman. Funny its been starred 5 times and playlisted yet shows 0 listens. Geo

This mu-sick seems rather "engineered". But it'll work on an emotional level. I know it. His sound paintings always do. Thanking you in anticipation!

It's hard to review Krafti's music and say something new. It's well produced, It's ambiental, with thousend little devilish sounds around, it's well balanced and professionally timed. Is it more of the same from album to album? Dunno. I'll come to that later. It's very unnerving and full of expectations sometimes. Take Hopeman for example: From very beginning you are listening carefully for something to happen. There is tension which goes through whole track - Without fionale, without solution. Dissapointed? Nope,you just continue to listen next - Moncor, which goes other way. It stands still, like land, like aftenoon doze on veranda - peace and random sounds. Turel is contrasr to Mancor. Suddenly more noisy and urban, this time you have to get up from your veranda and travel (by train). Suddenly we descover minimal rhytm in digital form in Drast - out of the blue. In Bearth we hit in wall of surealistic sound without structural flow.. I said several times in different places on Jamendo. To me, good ambient is ambient which you listen - it's not only background. This album is not so demanding like other Krafti's things but it's not MUZAK. It must be taken as a whole to appreciate it. I tried to listen only first three Krafti's album and three last albums from Noise Sound Nation - I listened them in aftenoons and almost went crazy. So don't take thgis stuff in large doses! LOL And no. It is not more of the same all the time. It's just that you HAVE TO LISTEN to realise that. Now, I hope that I done some kind of Krafti 101 here :) Thanks for all the sounds man.