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- (Alter Ego=TheMCE)
Thomas Ekelund (Suecia)
Jeff Surak (Washington, D.C.)
Rafael Irisarri (Orlando, USA)
Experimental - Electronica - Cliks + Cuts (fusion del techno minimal
con sonidos expirementales) - Orlando FL
Biografia
Normal Music es un proyecto que se forma a través de la
banda ancha de conexiones de Internet de tres individuos: Raphael Irisarri
(The Musique Concrete Ensemble), Jeff Surak (Violet) y Thomas Ekelund (Dead
Letters Spell Out Dead Words / Nullvoid Design), con la producción
y mezcla final hechas por Irisarri en su estudio en la Florida.
"Brev" es un documento sonoro muy cálido, donde corrientes
de síntesis atmosférica se pasean a través de un cielo
lleno de color, mientras las vibrantes y latentes percusiones siembran
sus pasos en la arena de una costa donde el atardecer ocurre en cámara
lenta. Una súper-buena vibra emana de estas pequeñas canciones
que capturan la atención del escucha más atento mientras
menean el esqueleto del más pasivo. - CRJ
"Normal Music is the choice of music for Normal people" is the statement
of this mutual project of the swedish designer Thomas Ekelund, the Zeromoon
Labelowner Jeff Surak and Raphael Irisarri. "Normal Music" is not so normal
as the name might imply - not just another boring laptop trio. They focus
on merging real instruments, synths, bass guitar, autoharp, field recordings
and record players to shape those many sound sources into "normal music"
tracks. But what is this "Normal" all about? The referential review magazine
"Vital Weekly" points it by claiming influences of Pan Sonic, Goem or Pole
- a mixture between dubby, clicky rhythms in combination with rather noisy
ambient fragments. The core is relatively dense, fleshy - if that's a suitable
epithet - beats, at times slightly irregular and not easy to follow, bristling
with electronic beeps, crackles, hisses, and what have you. Somewhere between
the lines, or notes, to be precise, electroacoustic gratings, hardly perceptible
ambient wafts or field recordings push their way through.
From the track titles, one might consider Normal Music to be political
or with a certain Punk attitude. There is indeed a musical approach to
click-punk, as the beats are sometimes quite cold and heartless ("Migratory
Patterns Of The Youth") - detailed, clear cut-up beats and complicated,
clicky crunches characterizes this whole release, whereas "Pills, Pills,
Pills for Mental Health" is more of a slo-mo slacker click-dub, which is
a totally different direction to "Machines startle me with Great Frequency",
which is more sort of industrial field-recordings.
"Let's Do Really Strange Things And Call Them Normal" is an exciting
piece of work that evolves with every more bit of listening, it is a big
appetizer of contrary music for contrary people, Precise placements of
sounds and constantly evolving textures ensure that this release holds
quite a few secrets for you, even when listening to it repeatedly Normal
Music is all about rhythms and beats, with a distinctive, darker edge,
where rich electronic textures, surface noise from vinyl and various unidentifiable
sources, looped or seemingly random, form these five tracks of blissful
beats and minimal rhythms.
*Discografía:
+ Brev 3" CDR on Zeromoon, 2003 (out of print).
+ Let's Do Really Strange Things and Call them Normal mp3 ep on Autoplate.
June 2004.
+ A Short Exhibition of Normal Music CD on Zeromoon, 2004.
+ Acid Takes CDR on acid fake, August 2004.
Contacto:
http://www.zeromoon.com
http://www.normalmusic.org
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