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LLOYD, DALE - Semper

Format: CD

Label & Cat.Number: Alluvial Recordings A19

Release Year: 2005

Note: edition of 500

Price (incl. 19% VAT): €13.00

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Auf SEMPER finden sich sehr minimale, prozessierte field recordings, die so stark verändert wurden dass Quellensounds kaum auszumachen sind....Harmonien die der Wind zu spielen scheint...ein Wispern und seltsames klicken & Rauschen.... Wasser & Insekten... hohe metallische Frequenzen tauchen auf..... alles im ruhigen bis sehr ruhig / meditativen Bereich.... erinnert an z.B. JOHN HUDAK oder SMALL CRUEL PARTY, eine fantastische, fremde Soundwelt.... definitiv zu empfehlen für „natural drone“-Fans !

“....For the past 5 years, Lloyd has played a quietbut strong role in bringing new life to the notion of "environmental recordings as sound art" (or "Phonography") with the highly regarded compilations produced for Phonography.org, as well as other projects and activities. The first piece entitled "Semper", is mostly a quiet and contemplative work, yet it contains sprawling builds from near silent ebbs and flows to thunderous crescendos. Also heard are delicate field recordings and found objects transformed and woven into intricate electronic tapestries.The second and shorter piece titled "Magnesian Recumbit" is a slowly building ambient work with a unique sense of melancholy that makes fora perfect ending."For me, Semper basically illustrates a series of self-searching questions (with subtle epiphanies) followed by a somewhat enigmatic resolve or 'answer', of which I believe we have all encountered in our lives in one way or another."- Dale Lloyd“ [from the label info]

“...It consists of the lenghty title piece and the shorter 'Magnesian Recumbit'. The soundsources listed as the usual 'field recordings, electronic sounds, toy xylophone, old coins and other metallic and found objects'. It's hard to trace back the origin of the field recordings, save for some of the water and insect sounds, but most of the times, the computer is working overtime to process all the sounds into a nice ambient glitch mass. Densely layered with some the microphone quite close to the objects (a trick of trade Lloyd shares with people like Yannick Dauby or MNortham). The combination of the sometimes warm, natural sounds and the somewhat colder electronic sounds work in quite a nice way. 'Semper' is divided in smaller parts, each with it's distinct, own character. 'Magnesian Recumbit' is more of drone piece, with loops and layers of the metallic objects, working in a trance like way. The two pieces have a rather pastoral feel to it, it sounds quite solemnly. Two great works, pity the CD is rather short at that.” [FdW / Vital Weekly]

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