Tuesday, September 21, 2010

vital weekly clarification

This review by Frans De Waard below showed up in Vital Weekly 748, a couple things that require clarification:

1. The label name/link is misspelled:
2. I never said or wrote that the album, "fits the 2010 trend of cassette revivalist culture, analog synthesizers and nostalgic aesthetics." The album description states otherwise.

"BRANDON NICKELL - AND IF YOU SET THIS MIND OF MINE AFIRE THEN ON MY BLOODSTREAM I YET WILL CARRY YOU (CD by Isounderscore)
Another artist leaving behind his old 'band' name and working under his own name: Brandon Nickell used to work as Aemae. For his first work under his real name he drew inspirations from personal experiences, extensive research with auditory hallucinations and a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke. Nickell writes that his new album fits the 2010 trend of 'cassette revivalist culture, analog synthesizers and nostalgic aesthetics', he uses also computer based sequencers, a Sequential Circuits Pro One synthesizer, the human voice and various other digital and analog means. I believe that can be heard. The sound is raw at times, but has a great refined character, all recorded crisp and clear. Nickell joins the ranks of those artists that come from the world of noise (although in his case never that loud), that seem to be moving away from the strict noise sense and start working with a sound that is deeper, more complex and more layered than just a set of random noise bleeps. Not every moment is great however. 'Time Throne' takes too long to move away from random loops into a more organic structured piece. That is however the only downside. The other four pieces have this organic approach and make indeed a great audio hallucination. Working with quite an obscure set of sounds, Nickell creates a great world of sound. Sustaining sounds, gliding scales, part firmly rooted in the world of drones, but never too 'soft', but nicely 'present'. An intelligent and excellent release, with a great cover. (FdW)"

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