ABSTRACTIVE NOISE OF THE ADDER’S BITE CD - Digipack + Digital Abstractive Records, 2013
ZBIGNIEW PREISNER DIARIES OF HOPE CD/Digital /Vinyl Mystic Production, 2013
ERIK WOLLO TIMELINES CD in 4 panel DigiPak Projekt, 2014
“of the Adder’s Bite” is the debut album of Abstractive Noise an addictive masterpiece of acoustic, cinematic and electronic elements, aesthetically combined round a thematic core, possessing a high narrative quality and balancing artistically between neo classical and post rock ideas as well as “idm” and ambient. Panagiotis Pagonis, music-maker and sound designer from Greece with this debut album manages to capture the listener in an evocative atmosphere of acoustic drumming and strings, fusing cellos, triangles, classical strings, distorted percussion dark gloomy synths, drones melancholic piano and whirring clock cog samples. Highly recommended for lovers of In The Nursery and Subheim, the album is a versatile existential statement outstanding and genius in its realization from all aspects. Can someone survive a gigantic machine-world?
Diaries of Hope is inspired by the diaries and poems of Polish children who were victims of the Holocaust. Preisner’s major new five-movement work features Lisa Gerrard in the principal vocal role and treble Archie Buchanan in settings of two chamber songs, with the Warsaw Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra and Crouch End Festival Chorus. This is the first time that Lisa Gerrard has collaborated with Preisner. She is best known for her collaboration with Brendan Perry in Dead Can Dance and for her vocals on several major film scores. The world premiere of Diaries of Hope was held at the White Stork Synagogue in Wroclaw, Poland, on 8th October 2013. Zbigniew Preisner conducts the Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, with featured vocalist Lisa Gerrard. Lisa Gerrard will also join on Thursday 8 May 2014 at the Istanbul Congress Center.
Timelines is the 18th album from veteran Norwegian ambient/electronic artist Erik Wψllo. It’s a warm, epic and shimmering cycle of memorable electronic music. Noted for his many Echoes Radio Albums of the Month and placement on Best of the Year lists at Amazon, Zone Music Reporter and Schallwelle Press (Germany), Timelines continues in that tradition with nine engaging pieces exploring distinct melodic piano themes and intense and haunting electric guitar. Layers of acoustic guitar loops and pulsation-patterns create the foundation on which Wøllo’s distinct melodic piano themes are played. The pieces bring emotional synth lines and powerful deep basses together with delicate percussion arrangements. As a natural and important counterpoint to the expressive piano themes, Wøllo’s electric guitar ebow solos are both intense and haunting.