"hailing From Jakarta, Indonesia, ambient all-star Strange Mountain
(Marcel Thee) is famous for reprocessing music through analog reel to
reel tape. cover was drawn by the always-amazing Timothy Henry"
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Showing posts with label jakarta. Show all posts
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Tuesday, March 04, 2014
strange mountain
soundtrack for a future passed, remembered and forgotten.
recorded and performed : Marcel Thee
style: ambient, new age
Strange Mountain is Marcel Thee (Sajama Cut, Roman Catholic Skulls) from Jakarta, Indonesia
"lush and expansive dreamscapesin. deed as the title would indicate, this selection of tracks offers
the beauty one might expect in an ambient release, but tempered with a
very measured sense of reservation and thoughtful contemplation. the
kind of emotional peace hard won at the ultimate realization of letting
go. perhaps I'm seeing to literally into these tracks. at their
surface these are enjoyed easily as meditation music, but I think there
is more here. not just the act and appreciation of meditation but the
rewards of a life spent focused on mindfulness and acceptance. broad
wavering lines of synth, softly incorporated found sound. purity." guide me little tape
como no podía ser menos, la cinta más bonita y zen de Strange Mountain tenía que ser en Ginjoha Tapes. no importa lo vaga que esté últimamente, hay discos que bien merecen al menos cuatro líneas. discos que quieres compartir y que la gente conozca. discos elegantes y emotivos que no defraudan, que sólo viendo la portada (y no hablemos ya del sello) sabes que te van a gustar, no en vano tiene canciones como 'creatures of the sun', 'at day's end' o 'windows facing glasgow'. después de ellas, ya no puedo dejar de proclamar mi amor infinito a Strange Mountain. es el ambient más puro. es el ambient de las comparaciones con Iasos y Buchikamashi, también con Laaraji y la melancolía de Former Selves.
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
sawi lieu
"A time bomb torches the phantasmagorical. It is a night ride above the
swirling sweet hillsides. The trick and a transport. A distant laugh,
not a thrill left to be." constellation tasu
"The album title refers to one of Jakarta’s earliest major shopping
centers. Located in South Jakarta, Pasaraya was Sawi Lieu’s hub ~ the
place where the now 20-something spent hours playing Rp 500-per-game
arcades. The blips and 8-bit noises in those games embedded themselves
into Sawi’s soul. "I want to pay a tribute to those nostalgic memories of playing those 'ding dongs'. The songs are heavily electronic because I wanted it to sound like those arcade games’ scores. I just hope that when people listen to these songs, they again feel the
joy they had when they were playing arcade games as kids. Yeah, that
would be really good." jakarta globe
en el anterior disco de Sawi Lieu siempre me detenía en la preciosa 'crystal vibration' y ahora son 'familiar landscape' y 'unforseeable photosynthesis' las dos canciones que de verdad me han robado el corazón. en 'pasaraya' Sawi parece haber apostado definitivamente por el camino de la electrónica, de los beeps and boops y blips and skips y un sinfín de soniquetes cual tormenta sónica, un homenaje a la infancia y a los juegos clásicos Arcade (pac-man!). colorismo desbordante, con ventanucos. desde Jakarta, como Duck Dive.
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