taken from the forthcoming tape // out soon on Exitab

(EXTB065) Vrtačky po desáté hodině – Lullabies

When minimalistic algorithmic melodies cohabit with detuned oscillators, creating a dialogue with crackles and noises, a dreamy fairytale world of noiseambient soundscapes opens. 

After several years of multifarious pieces exploring the field of (harsh)noise and ambient, Bratislava-based “Vrtačky po desáté hodině” is coming with a homogeneous work consisting of eight tracks. The whole album presents a live session recording, which is the artist’s main shift from a conventional linear “studio” approach.

In the light of a soon-to-come (now real) life event, the artist started to think about his contribution to child’s very first months. Even though he is involved also in the Slovak folklore music, playing bagpipe, fujara and other shepherd’s wind instruments, a more contemporary approach seemed fitting. A concept behind the sound design and musical style is inspired by shepherd’s playing fujara in a drone way, a research about what sounds get babies to sleep (household hum) and a simulation of noises in the womb heard at the Viennese “House of Music”. These ideas materialised into eight workspaces supposed to be played for Stela to fall asleep: not as a recording but live. One of the takes makes this album.

The personal tone underlines even the artwork done by a close friend and Stela’s “big sister”, a visual artist chaosdroid.

EXTB065 Vrtačky po desáté hodině - Lullaby no.7 (forthcoming)

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Ed Brunsden was kind and patient enough to interview me for  his blog Desert... Mountain... Dust...  - you can read it at https://desertmountaindust.blogspot.com.au/2017/02/tuonela-primitive-progressive.html

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~ Aldous Huxley

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. ~ Jean Cocteau

All music is beautiful. ~ Billy Strayhorn
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I've become addicted to drone. Again. I was the kid with his head on the piano, listening to the overtones die away, or pressing his ear to the steel hull of the ferry, enthralled by the sounds it created. I was the kid who formed wordless songs to accompany the sound of train wheels on a long journey, or hummed along with the fan on a hot day.

In the 60s I used to play my 45s on 16, or backwards, or by hand using razor blades as stylii.

I made cut-up tapes on a cheap cassette recorder in the 70s and experimented with reel-to-reel in the 80s. 

Thank you Subotnick, Lygeti, Coltrane, Jimi, Mimaroglu, Eno, Cluster, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk, Throbbing Gristle...

I am not a musician. I am a scavenger of sounds. I use the most basic software to process those sounds, stretching and filtering until something emerges that makes a joyful noise. Or not...