"Lieven Martens Moana’s first album under his birth name marks an
important shift in his oeuvre. while still indebted to the universe
created under his moniker Dolphins Into The Future, ‘Music From The Guardhouse’ shows the Artist reaching the shores of his mental island,
fully matured. this is where a new journey begins, a musical research
program within the ‘composer genre’." kraak
"here’s an LP from the man formerly known as Dolphins Into The Future, Lieven Martens Moana, a mixture of concretey field-recorded soundscapes,
tape hiss, wibbly analogue synth tomfoolery and occasional spoken
commentary which seems to be from Moana himself. on the first
side alone we have a lengthy passage of hiss and field recordings and
sporadic piano tinkles, followed by a wibbly midi-synth passage with
abstract, brightly layered synths plinking and plonking in a chaotic yet
relaxing manner which brings to mind the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
and Vernon Elliott’s magical score from ‘The Clangers’, finishing on a
field recorded beach scene with weirdly sped-up bird calls which sound
totally alien. over on the other side is a single long track ‘As Falesias’, which
opens with dramatic soundtracky neoclassicism before delving into
plangent analogue soundscapery with a sinister edge, with lots of
swelling, quavering drones and continued subtle orchestral touches which
sound like they’ve been beamed in from the 1950s. It’s a weird alien
nostalgic excursion which will confuse and relax you." norman records
