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Bersarin Quartet

November 19, 2008 at 8:11 pm · Filed under Articles, Media

Bersarin Quartett - Bersarin Quartett (Lidar)

With some albums, you realize within a few seconds that here you have come across something really special. It is music that touches you straight away. The debut album by the Bersarin Quartett released in February this year, is one of these albums.Little is known about the Bersarin Quartett apart from the fact that it’s a one man band with the name Thomas, hailing from Münster, Germany. Bersarin Quartett’s debut is a journey. It will take you trough ten tracks (just under an hour) of layered classical and ambient electronic moods. It’s lush and grand without being overly dramatic, as if it was the soundtrack of an imaginary emotional film epic. Thomas himself calls his music “imaginary fictional filmscores“. And it is hardly possible to come up with a more apt term. 10 tracks for 10 movies that have yet to be shot.The second half of the album is arguably more diverse. Die Dinge Sind Nie So Wie Sie Sing, introduces horns and sturdy double bass, but still the lead orchestral lines remain immoveable and monotonously static. The track Nachtblind is more effective, as echoing piano chords join violin strings, with a more imaginative percussive element sitting beneath the arrangement, whilst Endlich Am Ziel introduces reverbed guitars amidst the brazen strings, finally we have a sense of undulation and tangible emotion.

Whether Bersarin Quartet’s second half comeback is enough to rouse the listener into acclaim is questionable, there’s doubtless a talented individual trying hard to express some contemplative sentiments, it’s just that transmitting that effectively is sometimes made to look easier than it actually is. Bersarin Quartett can appear a pale imitation next to today’s buxom choice of modern ambient soundtrack composers, however, as long as you don’t expect too much, you should find it mildly enjoyable.,

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My sweet march EP

November 9, 2008 at 9:33 pm · Filed under Articles, Media

Didem Suzen-My Sweet March Ep

1-my sweet march

2-moon bath

3-something is gone

4-departure

Some Feedbacks So Far :

Bvdub (Styrax leaves, millions of moments, US) :
New 3rd wave release is GORGEOUS! especially “something is gone” and “departure”… my god, 2 of the best tracks i’ve heard in recent memory.
Yannick (Needs,Lazy,Germany) : the new ep sounds great, really nice!

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Miss Kittin - Barefoot Tonight

October 2, 2008 at 9:39 pm · Filed under Articles, Media

Miss Kittin is back with a new full length title, “BatBox”, which hits the streets March 4th, 2008. This track has some what of a dark rock-esque bassline that rumbles through-out but also has a nice gothic feel to it all. I can’t get enough of her humming backing vocals on this track.

http://www.audiodrums.com/audio/2008/01/miss_kittin-barefoot_tonight.mp3

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LUOMO - CONVIVIAL

October 2, 2008 at 9:32 pm · Filed under Articles, Media

Sasu Ripatti is the producer and head writer behind the project Luomo, his musical outfit that has redrawn the very boundaries of what “house music” can achieve. “Convivial”; is Ripatti’s fourth, album as Luomo. For his relief though, this time he doesn’t have to arrive alone. In addition to a long-time collaborator Johanna Iivanainen (From Helsinki, Finland), this time he lands with a semiunderground star cast; Cassy (Panorama Bar), Sascha Ring (Apparat), Jake Shears (Scissor Sisters), Robert Owens, Sue-C and one anonymous singer who hides behind a name Chubbs
The network of artists and singers he worked with for the album bring about strong song characteristics and wide range of electronic music to experience. Cassy is participating on a dancefloor-friendly song “Have You Ever”, while Sascha Ring makes a touching appearance singing a semi-ballad “Love You All”. Jake Shears does add a piece of glamour in “If I Can’t” while a long-time friend from California, Sue-C does great lead vocals in “Nothing Goes Away”, a song probably everyone can relate to. Classic house vocalist Robert Owens gets treated and processed in soulful “Robert’s Reason”, while Johanna Iivanainen both brings back and takes further than before what vocals can do in experimental pop music. As always in his productions the vocals rarely speak out on narrow or specific issues, preferring sweeping hyperbolic statements all about seasonless emotions and about transition and exchange, because that is what people have in their lives, and it is his wish to reflect on that in his music…

Convivial” is out on Huume Recordings October 24th.

Track Listing:

1. Have You Ever (w/ Cassy)
2. Love You All (w/ Sascha Ring aka Apparat)
3. If I Can’t (w/ Jake Shears)
4. Nothing Goes Away (w/ Sue Cie & Johanna Iivanainen)
5. Robert’s Reason (w/ Robert Owens)
6. Slow Dying Places (w/ Johanna Iivanainen)
7. Sleep Tonight (w/ Johanna Iivanainen)
8. Gets Along Fine (w/ Chubbs)
9. Lonely Music Co. (w/ Johann

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