A repost from Bandcamp Goodies from april 2012: Hanetration - Tenth Oar EP
- "Treading the lines between abstract industrialism and textured noise, Hanetration offsets these four self-released audio paintings with field recordings, manipulated glitches and subterranean ambience. Pealing away at the edges, twenty-nine minutes briskly float away as distressed electronic crackles, horns, reversed loops, fractured vocal samples and tangled strands cascade in a surreal dreamscape filled with ambiguity. As Hanetration deconstructs these pixelated sonic textures, one can easily lose themselves among the myriad of blurred effects that are punctuated by rhythmic patterns throughout. Tenth Oar is a well-balanced array of turbulentand often subtleexperiments that unfold with repeated listens. Fans of Fennesz and Boards of Canadas compressed interludes will certainly appreciate Hanetrations trajectory on this free-of-charge extended player."
- Igloo Magazine.
- "An anonymous debut EP dropped into my inbox last month from London artist Hanetration asking for some feedback. Currently unsigned to any labels Hanetrations Tenth Oar EP has been released as a free download on Bandcamp where his anonymity remains intact with no additional info. on the artist. He describes his music as ambient soundscapes, woozy atmospherics and glitchy sound collages music for headphones and I would pretty much go along with that, but I would also add that the EP is compellingly different, sonically inventive throughout and one of the most promising debuts out there in the ambient/experimental field at the moment.
Opening track Rex immediately grabs your attention with its frenzied babbling vocal layered with fluttering flute tones and a quirky beat underlying a mumbling voice buried in hazy delirium. Piano notes meander above a low static layer here and there before the rhythm picks up again to fade out on that fevered vocal line a superb track! Alarm builds slowly with piano over dense layers of velvet drone into a mournful death march parade. Lifting the tone slightly, but still with a melancholic air, Rufus includes some wonderfully bowed psaltery-like sounds which stretch out over a steampunk mechanical rhythm full of hiss and steam. Final track Wreck has a delightfully twisted vocal like a lost soul wailing in a fog shrouded limbo with a slow pulse beneath supported by an insistent pickup glitch.
No hesitation here go and download this now! This is a very exciting debut from Hanetration full of unusual and well mixed sound combinations and very worthy of the 24 minutes of your time that it will take to listen to the full EP."
Thanks amc, this is a major part of what I like about emusers. I've not been on here for a couple of days, so look through what everyone has been playing and come across amc's find - brilliant. I'm starting with this, but so much more to explore...
I came across this artist a few months ago, but dismissed him. I'm giving him a second shot after Sirens Sound's writeup. Slow developing neo-classical. Nice. NYOP
A freebie that was thrown in with my order from the Public Guiltsale.
"Minenhund" (which loosely translates as "Miner Dogs" is the latest work from Strotter Inst. (aka Switzerlands Christoph Hess.) Hess creates music through the use of old, modified, Lenco turntables. Rubber bands are stretched and plucked by the stylus, dubplates have tape affixed in patterns to create textural rhythms, electrical current is sent via live wires to the needle to create pulsing feedback. These sounds are then manipulated by Hess through effects pedals to create dense sound structures, looping rhythms and multilayered broken beats. For "Minenhund," Hess also introduced and manipulated sounds from other records, primarily spoken-word records purchased cheaply from second-hand stores.
The packaging for this release features black and white ink on recycled chipbard (printed by Portland's Stumptown Printers.) The two inner pockets contain the disc on one side and a foldout poster on the opposite side. Minenhund is co-released with the Swiss label, Hinterzimmer.
Totally awesome; reminds me of a noisier Giuseppe Ielasi.
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Recent Soundway acquisitions.
I stumbled on this bandcamp site called "Petites Plan
Inspired by GP's summer mix cd, I looked around bandcamp under the "field recordings" tag (that's where I found Petites Planet
Powerful singing on this one.
Another nice one from Petites Plan
Hanetration - Tenth Oar EP
- "Treading the lines between abstract industrialism and textured noise, Hanetration offsets these four self-released audio paintings with field recordings, manipulated glitches and subterranean ambience. Pealing away at the edges, twenty-nine minutes briskly float away as distressed electronic crackles, horns, reversed loops, fractured vocal samples and tangled strands cascade in a surreal dreamscape filled with ambiguity. As Hanetration deconstructs these pixelated sonic textures, one can easily lose themselves among the myriad of blurred effects that are punctuated by rhythmic patterns throughout. Tenth Oar is a well-balanced array of turbulentand often subtleexperiments that unfold with repeated listens. Fans of Fennesz and Boards of Canadas compressed interludes will certainly appreciate Hanetrations trajectory on this free-of-charge extended player."
- Igloo Magazine.
ETA: - Here´s what Savaran Music and Sound writes about it: - Well written and totally seconded !
GP; since you're exploring Monk, this 2disk set is currently $4.99 on cd at amazon.
Thanks, amc2, this is nice so far. Also thanks for the Monk tip - will check that out.
Kantele Ensemble
Impassioned spiritual vocals. Intense.
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thanks again for the introduction
Thanks amc, this is a major part of what I like about emusers. I've not been on here for a couple of days, so look through what everyone has been playing and come across amc's find - brilliant. I'm starting with this, but so much more to explore...
I came across this artist a few months ago, but dismissed him. I'm giving him a second shot after Sirens Sound's writeup. Slow developing neo-classical. Nice. NYOP
A freebie that was thrown in with my order from the Public Guilt sale.
Totally awesome; reminds me of a noisier Giuseppe Ielasi.
More Petites Plan
One of the more well-known names at Petites Plan
Chromatics - Running from the Sun (Kill For Love outtakes) - full album as one track, free on Johnny Jewel's soundcloud.
BT - I noticed that; I should have said big name for NYOP; most other big names cost more, at least that I saw.