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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. ------- eggytoast.com ------- now updated daily --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org