crawling

from 'Progress Trap' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den362
available on all formats at http://denovali.com/ricardodonoso

Ten years after the transcendent syncopated debut ‘Progress Chance’, Ricardo Donoso returns with a pulsing retrospect of rhythmic determination and wide-eyed wonder with ‘Progress Trap’, his new album for Denovali. As is customary with Donoso, the moods on these electronic miniatures vary from piece to piece; some somber, brooding, and laden with mystery, others starry-eyed, tinged with sci-fi, and hungry for adventure.

Connections are finally forged between Donoso’s early hardware synthesizer arpeggiation experiments, his darker and more abstract work with an emphasis on synthetic textures, pulsation, and sound design and the more recent extreme full throttle electronic mayhem and prog inspired technical opuses found in the Calibrate/Re_Calibrate/Content era. 

Progress Trap is as harmonious as its predecessor allowing dissonance to subtly seep in, providing mere hints at the undercurrent of threat hidden beneath the music's smooth surface. If ‘Progress Chance’ was naive and innocent, ‘Progress Trap’ is mature and calculated. Perhaps some of the optimism has extinguished, but there is a stalking exhilaration which threads through the entire album, taking on merely different shades between sides – as with most of Donoso’s work something verging on a deep longing always lingers heavily as an aftertaste. There's a lot to digest on Progress Trap, as with Donoso’s entire canon, but as always, the effort is repaid.

Progress Trap

Ricardo Donoso - Master and Emissary

Tu vas me manquer

How do we keep ending up on opposite sides

Suumhow - Brus L

Foley Room

Keep Your Distance

Bricolage

Yasawas

Ghostride The Drift - B1

From the Olan Mill album 'Home', released in October 2012. 300 copies only - 

www.preservation.com.au

Pampas (Rurre) - Olan Mill

Tree Bosier - Equinox

A Warmer Welcome// a digital benefit in support of syrian refugee welfare // 110 Tracks // DL - 2016
https://www.discogs.com/Various-A-Warmer-Welcome/release/8140284

:Zoviet*France: - The White Sea

Zahn | Hatami | McClure - Prysma

from 'I Forsee The Dark Ahead, If I Stay' [CD|2LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den259
available on all formats at http://denovali.com/tkde

The highly praised live album of the Dutch cult ensemble from 2011 finally available on cd & vinyl.

The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble’s liveshows were known for their transcendental journeys, mixing live improvisation with the structure form studio album songs. TKDE always worked with a complex live set up, linking multiple laptops, channeling, effects and looping systems to recreate the intricate sound of their music. During the period from 2007 till 2011 many live performances were recorded, and decided was to release a compilation of songs as a live album. In 2012, a year before the split of the project, the live album was released digitally to show the diversity and flexibility of the band live.

- "The album presents a series of tracks recorded from shows over the last five years, doubling as essentially a "best of" and insight into the live TKDE experience. (...) And it is exactly this weaving of disparate threads, often in an unexpected and chaotic fashion, that make TKDE so fascinating. Compositions can—and do—traverse through multiple genres, as one would expect from a pooling of such eclectic backgrounds." (4.5 / 5 Resident Advisor)

- "A consistently impressive collection that manages to vividly document TKDE’s spectacular live show" (Cyclic Defrost)

I Forsee The Dark Ahead, If I Stay

The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Lobby (Hungary, 2007)

HUMUS - Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage?

From Causa Sui's new 2LP, "Szabodelico", out on El Paraiso Records November 13th!

Order: 

www.elparaisorecords.com
www.normanrecords.com
www.juno.co.uk

Japan: www.diskunion.net

Info:

Something different from Causa Sui.

While Causa Sui have always had one foot in heavy psychedelic rock, they've had the other one deep in a wide variety of esoteric styles. On this new double LP set, that other dimension of the band is being explored full-scale. ”Szabodelico” paints with a colourful palette, both compositionally and sonically - digging deep into an assortment of cultures, eras and sounds with a true crate-digger mindset.

Throughout their 15 year life-span Causa Sui has always been about seeking out new directions, exploring the past and the present in a way that's unique at each step of their subtle progression - forging new paths into an existing map. ”Szabodelico” feels like discovering a small room under the stairs of your own house: familiar, yet new and exciting. Their latest vision is an elegantly zoned-out version of itself: a turn inward. Anti-bombastic, yet rich with ecstatic harmonics and dynamics. The band stringed together a long series of sessions in 2019 and early 2020 in their studio in Odense, often prioritizing playful first takes and good vibes rather than clinical perfection.

Sparsely dubbed and mixed with a natural, full bodied flavour by Jonas Munk during the summer of 2020, each track has its own aesthetic. There's no simple equation to sum up the 13 individual parts of the album, but as a whole it creates an entity that's as complete as each of its parts. From the windblown opener ”Echoes of Light”, to the closing slow-motion epic ”Merging Waters” you'll find yourself asking where did the time go? The answer of course is: Szabodelico.

Causa Sui: "La Jolla"

HUMUS - Night talks

The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Lobby (Hungary, 2007)

Denovali

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