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CORTEZ, SCOTT - Twin Radiant Flux

Format: CD
Label & Cat.Number: LINE Records LINE_046
Release Year: 2010
Note: shimmering guitar drones, very soft & beautifully melancholic; solo guitar-recordings made 1997-1999 by the LOVESLIESCRUSHING-instrumentalist! Lim. 500
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"Twin Radiant Flux is a beautiful processed solo guitar work by Scott Cortez, the instrumentalist of Lovesliescrushing. This previously unreleased 60-minute work, recorded between 1997 and 1999, shows Cortez' unique pioneering aesthetic. With droning flows and melodic layered sonic drifts, Twin Radiant Flux predates some of the most important guitar-driven currents in contemporary electronic music. Scott Cortez (b.1969) is a textural guitarist, visual artist, based in Chicago. Cortez has been making instrumental ambient guitar music for over two decades. He embraces lo-fi minimalist aesthetics by limiting himself to guitars, 4-track cassette recorders, and looping pedals. From these modest tools he combines technique with various processed guitar textures to create droning, shimmering soundscapes. Cortez explores the textural possibilities of the guitar, creating music that ranges from experimental to post-rock to contemporary. His trademark sound combines guitar playing with digital techniques, using the guitar as a tone generator, processing the signal through various pedals and filters to create dense shimmering tapestries of sound. Cortez' music often incorporates drones and loops, which he crafts into enigmatic sound worlds with very subtle melodies. His work focuses mainly on the tonal possibilities of the guitar, and is usually produced without the aid of a computer." [label info]

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"I thought I didn't recognize the name Scott Cortez, but of course, he's the main instrumentalist of Loveliescrushing, a band which I always had slammed down as 'gothic'. But maybe it was always more a case of ambient dream pop. The work here is under his own guise and was recorded somewhere between 1997 and 1999 and previously unreleased. Cortez plays guitar here and the nine parts form one whole piece of music. It was recorded on four track, using guitar and effects and is a work of drone music. Obviously, I'd say! A work that lasts an hour of spacious guitars, pitched down below to create that dark atmospheric sound so necessary for this kind of music. Excellent stuff that fits a moody, grey winters day, where you never know its gonna rain or snow. An endlessly meandering atmospheric sound and of course not much new under the sun - not even back in 1999 when it was recorded, as this stands firmly in the tradition of the Isolationists - but a very fine work anyway." [FdW/Vital Weekly]