AF URSIN — Aika. Un reveil siderant dans le passe decompose
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Teures Sammlerstück von TIMO VAN LUIJKs Projekt (ex NOISE MAKERS FIFES, jetzt ONDE, und auch Mitglied bei ASRA), dessen Cover aber in höchst aufwendiger Handarbeit (= absolutes Unikat, erstellt aus umgedrehten alten Klappcovern, die handbedruckt wurden) entstanden ist! Ebenso nostalgisch & einmalig wie das Cover wirkt die Musik, wenn über Geknister & Gerausche sich bedächtige Perkussion und diverse klassische Instrumente erheben, oder unwirkliche rückwärtige Gesänge von weit her auftauchen, die sich mit subtilen Tape-Bearbeitungen oder Analogsynth-Sounds vermengen..
hat was von einem Zeitlupen-Soundtrack zu einem düsteren Stummfilm, die Klänge wehen herüber wie von einem fremden Traum. Nummeriert, signiert, und mit altem Schwarzweiss-Foto versehen. Eine geniale Platte, die sich in kein gängiges Genre einordnen lässt.
"Timo van Luijk, the man behind Af Ursin, is slowly getting into a busy bee. Metaphon is an organisation that promotes concerts and releases music. Last year, too late now for Vital Weekly, they released a great four CD boxset by Baudouin Oosterlynck, which was a sort of outsider in the Belgium music life. His music deals with part improvisation of percussive music on objects and some pieces dealing with voice and/or electronics. Not every track by Oosterlynck is great but these four CDs give a great impression of what he did in the years 1975-1978. An extensive booklet and beautiful box tops of this release. But that is not the subject of this review. We are dealing with a brand new record by Timo van Luijk, also known as Af Ursin and together with Raymond Dijkstra, Asra. Timo handed me his record at their recent concert in Extrapool, and told me a few things to note. All of the package is handmade. He reversed old gate fold record sleeves and printed them by hand. Inner sleeves as well as the plastic outer sleeve are all re-used. He also mentioned that the record may sounded like a bad pressing, but its just the addition of extra hiss and crackles in the music. It seems that everything about this record is old, and Van Luijk also had his grandmother contribute voice. This record, the music that is on it, is not from these times. It just isn't. Af Ursin plays music that sounds 'old', like browsing sepia toned photographs from, well, why not, your grandparents. Piano, saxophones, drums, percussion, the voice, some extra crackles, hardly any electronics around here (if any at all), although in a piece like 'Sortilege' I am not too sure of that. Recorded on analogue tape, obviously, this is truly a beautiful record. Nothing new, but aged beauty." [FdW / Vital Weekly]
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hat was von einem Zeitlupen-Soundtrack zu einem düsteren Stummfilm, die Klänge wehen herüber wie von einem fremden Traum. Nummeriert, signiert, und mit altem Schwarzweiss-Foto versehen. Eine geniale Platte, die sich in kein gängiges Genre einordnen lässt.
"Timo van Luijk, the man behind Af Ursin, is slowly getting into a busy bee. Metaphon is an organisation that promotes concerts and releases music. Last year, too late now for Vital Weekly, they released a great four CD boxset by Baudouin Oosterlynck, which was a sort of outsider in the Belgium music life. His music deals with part improvisation of percussive music on objects and some pieces dealing with voice and/or electronics. Not every track by Oosterlynck is great but these four CDs give a great impression of what he did in the years 1975-1978. An extensive booklet and beautiful box tops of this release. But that is not the subject of this review. We are dealing with a brand new record by Timo van Luijk, also known as Af Ursin and together with Raymond Dijkstra, Asra. Timo handed me his record at their recent concert in Extrapool, and told me a few things to note. All of the package is handmade. He reversed old gate fold record sleeves and printed them by hand. Inner sleeves as well as the plastic outer sleeve are all re-used. He also mentioned that the record may sounded like a bad pressing, but its just the addition of extra hiss and crackles in the music. It seems that everything about this record is old, and Van Luijk also had his grandmother contribute voice. This record, the music that is on it, is not from these times. It just isn't. Af Ursin plays music that sounds 'old', like browsing sepia toned photographs from, well, why not, your grandparents. Piano, saxophones, drums, percussion, the voice, some extra crackles, hardly any electronics around here (if any at all), although in a piece like 'Sortilege' I am not too sure of that. Recorded on analogue tape, obviously, this is truly a beautiful record. Nothing new, but aged beauty." [FdW / Vital Weekly]
www.lasciedoree.be