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LIVING ORNAMENTS / ACCELERA DECK - split

Format: LP Label & Cat.Number: Narrowminded NM011 Release Year: 2003 Price (incl. 19% VAT): €10.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info After the nice „We’re running out of west” LP compilation another release on this dutch label with two rather unknown projects: ACCELERA DECK create very nice high-pitched drone-fields with real US folk guitars appearing at the end, very cool, whereas LIVING ORNAMENTS work in more digital rhythmic fields, but also in soundtrackish atmospheric areas and using melancholic guitars... “ The small Dutch label Narrominded surprised us some time ago with an excellent compilation LP 'We're Running Out Of West' (see Vital Weekly 317) and now offer the first in a series of split LP's. On this first one we find Living Ornaments and Accelera Deck. The first is the band behind the label. Their side is called 'Ribbels' ('ripples') but is divided in eleven short pieces, which are all crossfaded into eachother. The basic material are piano and guitar, which are extensively transformed and mutated on the computer. Because of all these tracks going into eachother, but keeping an overall feel to the entire twenty minute work, it almost seems like a seventies conceptual prog rock band, but then updated for the next millenium. Living Ornaments quite clearly state their influences, mostly Fennesz, Keith Fullerton Whitman or in fact many from the laptop areas (Stephan Mathieu comes to mind), but the material is strong enough to stand by itself. The sparse rhythms work nice enough as counterpoints and give the material a nice extra touch. On the other side we find Chris Jeely in his Accelera Deck monniker. I thought he stopped using that name, but maybe I was wrong. Accelera Deck, or in fact the majority of Jeely's output, has always been a diverse project. From 'intellegent' dance music to folk songs and now these four pieces of low resolution sampling. Grizzly samples with a very low sampling rate of guitar noise have a strange, yet appealing character. Towards the end the folky acoustic guitar arises from the mass of computerized sounds and puts the listener back on earth.Strong material - again!” [FdW, Vital Weekly]