At 02:02 PM 6/20/2001 -0700, andnbsp wrote:
quoted 1 line Some good mellow trax...>Some good mellow trax...
I'm *still* in love with Nick Willscher's "Solutiore of Stareau" disks,
disk 1 in particular. Disk 1 luckily just saw release a few weeks ago, and
is available through the Infraction label at Riouxs Records (www.riouxs.com).
Here's some reviews, since they can explain what it is better than I
can. One thing of note is that it sounds like many of the sounds used on
the disk are sourced from guitar. I'm not sure whether it's the actual
case, but it's very organic sounding, and incredibly diverse for using only
a few sounds.
ZAMMUTO - Solutiore of Stareau : Disc 1 CD (Infraction) U.S. $11.50 Arising
from a mammoth triple CDR released by Nick Willscher (aka Zammuto) a few
years back as a private pressing, Infraction brings to light disc one of
the Solutiore of Stareau trilogy (following the Apt. B records release of
disc three entitled, simply, willscher). This disc one is a quiet
atmospheric minimal soundscape. Distant radio waves floating in the night,
warm drones rising and falling, punctured by a faint yet insistant pulsing
rhythm. Deep listening in which surface variation is so subtle - getting
lost in the recording for hours is almost inevitable if you give it the
time. Time well spent. [INFX 002]
"Zammuto: SOLUTIORE OF STAREAU - DISC ONE (Infraction, 2001) A really
pleasing long album of glitchy ambient sound, unfolding like a meditation.
I find it more interesting than a lot of "clicks and cuts" electronic
music; it might have to do with the concrete textures and the sense of
constant shifting: from the opening silence, there's the persistence of
tape hiss, a kind of whispering, popping husk, congealing at times into
almost-rhythms that fade away, or break into other combinations. Throbbing
drones and harmonics flow over this arrangement, broken apart by the
editing process, so there's this kind of reflexive sense of the recording
process; but more important, one's attention is jerked back to the thousand
varieties that the static takes. And _static_ this record is, though the
pleasures are in the micro-events. Beautiful, gentle, and recommended." -
scott handley.
Zammuto, _Solutiore of Stareau_ (Infraction) "The premiere release on Ohio
record shop Rioux´s new label Infraction, overseen by Jason Bryant (who
also designed the suggestively-minimalistic cover art) is in fact a
re-release. Several years back, Nick Willscher, trading under the name
Zammuto, privately released an ambient trilogy, of which this disc is the
first installment (the third disc was previously made more widely available
on the Apt. B label). The darkly quiet, enticingly distant landscape spread
over fourteen tracks is in sum actually one long, seventy minute suite of
some bonafide beauty, not entirely unlike the minimalist sounds recently
generated by, say, Jonathan Coleclough. The only problem this reviewer has
with _Solutiore of Stareau_ is the fact that while this nimbly composed and
subtle music eggingly draws the listener in, his willingness to enter into
this alien landscape is often repulsed by recurring, out of synch metallic
glitches (borrowed from Oval?) mixed way up front. This however is a
personal prejudice; other listeners will perhaps find these electronic
clicks to be rhythms by which to orient themselves. During roughly the last
quarter of the piece, it becomes quiet Enoesque, _On Land_-ish, if you
will. In the final analysis, this is a strong, well thought-out piece of
warm, subtle drones, thin ethereal radio waves, and enough colour and
slowly-evolving variation to keep listeners coming back for further
journeys of discovery. It is only hoped that the second part of the trilogy
is granted wider availability." - Stephen Fruitman, Umea University, Umea,
Sweden.
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