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Administrateur des artistes : Per Boysen Lo Fi Lazer
Site web : http://www.perboysen.com
Date d'inscription : 03 janvier 2007
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Someone recommended me listening to STate Shirt and I really like what I'm hearing! You sum up a lot of the things I have loved in rock and pop over the last decades. It is so nice to hear someone blending all these lovely sonic attitudes in his own original songs! To name a few associations I'm having while listening, it's like experiencing the melodic qualities of Pet Shop Boys smacked up by the frenetic live noise unleashed by Blur at their heydays. Then add a little melancholy to that. Yes, I really like the State Shirt brew!
This music has a hidden power, a magical mesmerizing undercurrent that fascinates. You start the music, forget to listen for a while and suddenly you come back to your senses wondering what the frack happened? You find that you have stopped whatever you were doing to put all your attention into following those sound textures. I like a lot of "minimal" music like Steve Reich, Harold Budd, Durutti Column etc etc, but I have never heard anything like The Whisky project. Now give me another one of those will you... :-)
Thank you for playing *your* music! What a revelation it was to get back to the flat where a playlist was left running and this wonderful piano tinkering filling the air! What I like so much is that you keep an instantly loose feel on many layers; left hand, right hand and pedals moving in and out of occasional meeting points, never to dwell too long on a certain theme or to hook up together in a too obvious way. Your piano playing is like listening to different musicians improvising together; questioning, answering, teasing, cheating, stumbling, pulling jokes on common gestures etc etc. I think it's sad that not more musicians take full advantage of the piano like this; I mean, it's full orchestra, "the King of Instruments"!
There is a special quality in music like this, that resembles a journey with all of its up- and downhill traveling rather than simply showing off a composition or boosting the power of certain melodic themes.
Thank you for this excellent ambient album! I think you have found a good vibe and a nice pace in most songs. The listening experience was a little disturbed by the stiff drum track of GodSay3 but the rest is just great! I'm listening here through a full range system of good pro level stereo speakers plus sub bass woofer and I just want to say to listeners that eventually happen to listen back on a somewhat limited system that this music really is well produced all the way from "ground" to "heaven". The bass of Balance Dear is something that especially makes me feel good, firm like an underground mountain. I like that that you stay away from putting something "in focus" because if you did there might be a risk of loosing the nice mysterious feeling that now hoovers around the tunes.
There's some almost-out-of-tune howling beauty in this music that I really like! I can't describe it better, since it has a lot to do with the attitude by which the guitars are played. I'm not usually a big fan of guitar music that draws on the heritage from Robert Fripp, but on this album those type of guitar sounds are sometimes used and still sound fresh. The playing is sparse and commentating, as opposed to "leading" playing that usually is more appreciated by the player than by the listener ;-). In this music there's no barrier between "sounds" and "melodic elements", which another aspect that makes it enjoyable to listen to. Eh... for me, I do know people that would feel sick and get a head ace from this music. Guess I'm just sick enough to like it! Everything, even the techno inspired elements, are playing "questions and answers" in the orchestration. It's "talking" music. Organic. Evolving. It brings you somewhere. Sirdis shares elements with other music that I like, for example jazz guitar player John Abercrombie or Miles Davis period with the "crazy broken circuit effect" guitarist Pete Cosey (Agharta), but Sirdis is not a guitar album. There are also a lot of delay effects, synth filter sweeps and a crispy vintage sounding drum machine, every little sound interacting with each other.
This is a good ambient album, no doubt. Soundscapes drift like landscapes around the traveler. The emotional transitions are smooth and tender, the sounds are soothing. I do like listening to this, but I think it could be even better. Imagine if this fantastic music should be rather based on "up-front" themes, as in melodic themes, chord progressionsor sound hooks. Wouldn't that be just a little more interesting? Indeed a great ambient album, but a little too much harmonic emotions and genre typical sounds for my taste. The point of ambient music shouldn't be to not surprise the listener ;-)
This piece has such a nice groove! Those extra two beats makes it feel like the bass line is getting more power with each repeat of the figure. I had to unpack my tenor sax, crank up the level and play along. And guess what - the Jamendo player LOOPS the song so I played along for... must have been almost an hour!
I like the way ugly sounds are used in a beautiful way. But this music is also great IMHO because the time spans used are rather short. A theme, a dynamic filtering process or any other musical component is never allowed to stay active for too long time. In a merciless attitude all gestures are kept minimal, only given enough time to make the statement come thrugh. I can't wait to get this music into my ipod to listen while walking around my local area.
I was a bit turned off when the synth line appeared in x13 because the sound is so clean and uninteresting. Then the drum machine kicked in with a likely clean and "meat and potato" 808 type kit ("something everyone must have heard a million times"). But as the music proceeded I found it enjoyable thanks to the backing pads and filtered sounds. It kind of made sense to that cheesy drum and bass front.
It feels fine to hear acoustic instruments played with this attack and edge. It's really rocking and you can hear every little sound. Even when there is no sound you feel the pulse and that's just mesmerizing! No "far out" compositions, but a musical performance that is truly moving. As always is the case with good minimalistic music you "hear" more music than the score would actually display if written down. To me that is very ejoyable.
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