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2023-11-07

NLS - 2023 - 11 - 07

In a world so vast and empty, illusions fade.
Whispers in the silent night, lost in dreams, lost in silence.
Truth lies in dreams
Looking for a box to put my nightmares in 
Searching for what cannot be found,
In your eyes shines a world not quite as it appears.

Truth Lies In Dreams

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A response to Disquiet Junto 0630: Creative Sufficiency, a challenge to choose, in advance, a limit on the number of pieces of equipment, instruments, software, or plugins that will be used in the piece.

I chose 9 components: Logic, keyboard controller, piano, bass, drum kit, 8th triplet stereo delay, 8th stereo delay, room reverb, and a StepFX plugin. The polyrhythms are the result of automating the send amounts to the auxiliary channels with the competing stereo delays.

I wanted the overall feel to be a film noir carnival chase scene played on a Korg M1.

Recorded and produced at NOSIGNAL Multimedia Labs, The Shambles, Chicago, IL USA.

About Disquiet Junto 0630: https://disquiet.com/2024/01/25/disquiet-junto-project-0630-creative-sufficiency/

Disquiet Junto

Casting Out The Nines (disquiet0630)

Mongathara

I dwell in the shadows
I sit down beside thee
My sister the willow
Invites you to join me.

But can I be trusted?
My actions are shady
My motives are murky 
My language is hazy.

Yet here I am seated
Close to a highway
In the shade of a cliff
At the edge of a byway.

At the edge of a city
In the middle of woods
In the midst of nowhere
Now, am I well understood?

I’ll leave while you’re speaking
At the end of your seeking
Like a burnt-out ember
But you won’t remember.

I dwell in the shadows
I sit down beside thee
My sister the willow
Invites you to join me.

I dwell in the shadows r3c

Span

Esequaqtane

Ab6TechnoGoonRmx

Marco Lucchi, based in Modena, Italy, and Henrik Meierkord, based in Stockholm, Sweden, have a lengthy collaboration to their reciprocal credit, and they accomplish it far and near alike. A testament to the interplay of their work together is that a listener might be hard-pressed to discern which of their recordings are the result of long-distance file-trading, and which occurred when the two managed to be in the same place at the same time.

Several aspects of their respective music-making serve them well as creative partners. First of all, both tend toward the ambient, given as they are generally to a slow pace and to a sensibility that manages to be at once radiant and intimate. Secondly, while both are multi-instrumentalists, there is a complementary nature to their specialties, Lucchi being more of a keyboardist, Meierkord more of a string player. Thirdly, and perhaps most importantly, they are both immersed in techniques drawn from electronic music.

In particular, both men are experienced with live multitrack recording, in which they process and layer their own performances in real time. Meierkord is fond of layering sinuous tones to create scenarios of unique dimensions. It becomes uncertain — even unimportant — to the listener what preceded what, so intricate is his deployment of interplay. Lucchi likewise finds parallels between classical orchestration and the opportunity for drones lent by modern synthesizers; in a small room he can create a vast space. There is often an oceanic depth to such efforts, part composed and part improvisatory, in which playing is a tool toward composition, rather than the other way around.

Throughout their new record, there is an underlying melancholy, a nostalgic beauty, and a reflective consideration — a virtue that is foundational to their ongoing collaboration. The result is particularly rich in plaintive scene setting, as on the glacially paced “La bestia umana,” which emerges from a neighborly field recording of a dog barking, and “Kosmisk Strålning II,” which maintains a dream-like quietude, more shadow than light. One “Like tears in rain”, what sounds like a synthesizer is, in fact, a piano, a recording of which has been stretched beyond the point of it being readily identifiable.

On first listen, their leaning toward unimpeachable steadiness can seem uniform, but listen more closely and you’ll recognize how explicitly they emote on a track like “The Third Stage,” due not just to the reaching melodic surges (which, in turn, match the sampled recordings of bird calls) but to the slight discordances that suggest trouble and tension. In a different manner, there is “A warm and golden October,” which balances breaking-dawn hush with piercing overtones. That track features a motif at the end, played on a celesta; those bell-like tones edge the piece out of dreaminess without entirely breaking the spell.

The greatest outlier — dog barking notwithstanding — may be on “Oändlig,” not just for its fierce pulse, but because of its more immediately electronic vibe. “Oändlig” is an exceptional piece, bringing to mind the minimalism of Terry Riley and the rave classics of Underworld.

Marc Weidenbaum 


Produced and mixed by Marco Lucchi and Henrik Meierkord
Marco Lucchi: mellotron, piano, celesta and synthesizers
Henrik Meierkord: cello, viola, zither, piano, organ and FX
Mastered by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)
Cover picture by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf) with AI
Artwork and cover design by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)

https://www.chitrarecords.com

Lieder Ohne Worte

Marco Lucchi & Henrik Meierkord - Furore Che Sogna

"Departure" is a depiction of the conflicting feelings of anticipation and regret associated with traveling. The piece is featured in the recent double LP vinyl release of artists associated with the Muffwiggler.com modular synth community. This track is actually ripped from the vinyl because I thought the surface noise contributed warmth & texture.


If you're interested in obtaining a copy, you may contact me directly via Soundcloud link

Departure

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Fastus appears on the Kosmo netlabel compilation "Vapors of Ambient" - check the promo video here: <a href="http://youtu.be/F8fTbY_csYI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/F8fTbY_csYI</a>

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