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Larsen | Rever | Review
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Aquarius RecordsThe story of how this record came to be is almost impossible to believeyet Michael Gira (Angels of Light / Swans) seems like a reliable enough source that it could in fact be true. Beginning sometime last year, Gira started receiving a series of arcane CD-Rs from the Italian collective / hermetic cult that simply labeled themselves as Larsen. The music within was a diverse collection of sounds that in Gira's words included "a whispered song, accompanied by a distant accordion, as if playing in the next room, or a drone of unknown origin, or a short burst of percussive chaos sometimes just a single sound or noise, a scraping sound, as if someone were slowly etching a piece of rusted metal with a blade of some sort, or the sound of saliva working in the mouth." The last package that he received did not include a CD-R, but a handsome amount of money, a plane ticket to Italy, and a request for his presence to produce an album for Larsen. Intrigued by the music he had heard up until then, Gira took Larsen up on their offer. Once in Italy, Gira was never allowed to see the......
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Larsen | Rever | Review
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Aquarius RecordsThe story of how this record came to be is almost impossible to believeyet Michael Gira (Angels of Light / Swans) seems like a reliable enough source that it could in fact be true. Beginning sometime last year, Gira started receiving a series of arcane CD-Rs from the Italian collective / hermetic cult that simply labeled themselves as Larsen. The music within was a diverse collection of sounds that in Gira's words included "a whispered song, accompanied by a distant accordion, as if playing in the next room, or a drone of unknown origin, or a short burst of percussive chaos sometimes just a single sound or noise, a scraping sound, as if someone were slowly etching a piece of rusted metal with a blade of some sort, or the sound of saliva working in the mouth." The last package that he received did not include a CD-R, but a handsome amount of money, a plane ticket to Italy, and a request for his presence to produce an album for Larsen. Intrigued by the music he had heard up until then, Gira took Larsen up on their offer. Once in Italy, Gira was never allowed to see the......
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Angels of Light | One of 'The Best of 2001'
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BrainwashedAppearing in many favorites lists from the recent readers poll.Read the list on brainwashed.com...
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Angels of Light | One of 'The Best of 2001'
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BrainwashedAppearing in many favorites lists from the recent readers poll.Read the list on brainwashed.com...
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Larsen | Rever | Review
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RUMORE | Vittore BaroniGira ha paragonato l'esperienza di produrre i Larsen alla registrazione sul campo di riti sonori officiati da un'oscura congrega.Suggestive metafore a parte, il secondo album dei piemontesi prende le distanze dai canonici climi gtr noise del precedente No Arms, No Legs, aprendosi ad arcane situazioni in cui convivono studiati rumorismi e languidi brandelli melodici, con ampio uso di strumenti etno-acustici ( banjo, flauto, fisarmonica, etc...). Richiami al classico approccio industrial persistono in tracce tese e martellanti come Radiale e Maya mentre la recitazione (non solo) nella ns lingua di Silvia Grosso ispira inevitabili confronti con quanti hanno finora tentato di sposare gioventù sonica e canzone d'autore. A rendere singolare e prezioso il lavoro è però soprattutto il ruolo determinante svolto dall'improvvisazione collettiva nel pervenire alle forme fissate su nastro, un'interazione di blocchi prestrutturati e libere esplorazioni che ha fruttato un suono misterioso, introspettivo ed evocativo....