"Soft Focus is Jimi Tenor, Lary 7 and Mia Theodoratus. all production was
done in Lary 7's Plastikville Studios in NYC except cutting by Didier Selin in Timmion Cutting Laboratory in Helsinki. no digital device was
used in the production of the vinyl version of Soft Focus. Soft Focus makes a soundtrack for your dreams. harps and flutes
hypnotize you to a trance-like state where only the Ondiolines and
Photophones can waken you. possibly the most eccentric album ever made
at Lary7´s purist, all-analogue museum of a studio. recorded in the
scorching heat of New York summer. you can hear street sounds filtering
in from the open windows." sahko
"eleven tracks capture the trio in
meditative, considered form, manning myriad vintage instruments ~ harp,
"homemade exotic flutes", harmonium, philicorda orgel, baldwin
synth-a-sound, bamboo wind chimes, large and small glockenspiels,
electric carillon, hammond solovox and extravoice, ondioline, celeste,
electronic tablas, and much more ~ conducted with patient and thoughtful
pacing to spacious and sophisticated effect. If we're to pick
highlights then the aleatoric infusion of distant sirens and bird song
with flute and harp in 'Polysomnographic' has our vote, as does the
rather more chilling horror scape of 'Quietus' but it's not the sort of
record to pick apart, it needs to be heard in one sitting, preferably
with the windows open and on a fresh spring morning for full effect." boomkat
no existe un disco más bonito para empezar un lunes. sólo con ver la portada, que tanto me recuerda a la serie francesa de patchwork ochestra, y el nombre de los instrumentos más vintage que puedas imaginar (ondioline ~instrumento electrónico que sería el precursor de los futuros sintetizadores, philicorda orgel, glockenspiel, armonio, flautillas y móviles de campanillas de bambú... y el arpa de Mia Theodoratus que lo inunda todo) intuyes que será precioso y que sonará genuinamente library music por dentro y por fuera, pura fantasía caleidoscópica de 1970 en technicolor. algunas pistas: Moondog, la banda sonora de Planète Sauvage de Alain Goraguer, las bandas sonoras del maestro polaco de terror Andrzej Korzyński y también la música de Disney. y también los documentales marinos de mediados de los setenta. tres momentos especiales: 'hypersomia', 'quietus' y sobre todo la dulcísima 'polysomnographic', tan perfecta.
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uf, ponita. esto es como para sentirse mal si no se tiene el vinil... vamos allá*
allá vamos filo, mágico tal cual cults percussion ensemble o jon appleton. por cierto, qué sin palabras es josh burke..
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