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In 2014 Ólafur announced his electronic debut album under the Kiasmos project with Bloodgroup front man Janus Rasmussen to much acclaim.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNils Frahm works as an accomplished composer and producer from his Berlin-based Durton Studio. His unconventional approach to an age-old instrument, played contemplatively and intimately, has won him many fans around the world. For a musician this early in his career, Frahm displays an incredibly developed sense of control and restraint in his work, catching the ear of many fans.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTrance Frendz \u003c\/em\u003eis their fifth release together, and is the music taken from the short film of the same name, in which the two improvise new pieces and eat homemade pizza in Nils Frahm’s flat, which appears to prioritise being a studio above being a home. It’s a charming bit of film, and while the music itself leaves you breathless, it’s very much worth also watching to truly understand just how spontaneously brilliant this album is, considering it was put together between the hours of 8pm and 4am. Despite being a fully improvised LP, the album gains some structural integrity by ending where it began, with a piece for two pianos, with the charming addition of Arnalds delicately humming. 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He has gained recognition thanks to projects such as EABS and Błoto \u0026amp; Jaubi. Still, he has never emphasized his name through the prism of these bands, betting instead on collective work. The time has come now for Marek to present his debut album entitled Marianna, featuring him alone as Latarnik performing in a piano solo formula.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeing sought after for years as a producer for other artists and as a composer and keyboardist for his own bands, he put his solo work on hold. In between all these activities, \"Latarnik\" was emerging slowly in Marek's head. Under his new alias, along with the Pakistani band Jaubi, he recorded one of the most important albums of 2021, Nafs at Peace, recognised by Pitchfork, The Guardian, DownBeat and Bandcamp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLatarnik, repeatedly awarded in Jazz Forum magazine's polls as Poland's greatest synth virtuoso, decided to reveal himself to listeners from a completely different angle. Influenced by the sound of solo recordings by Thelonious Monk, Ahmad Jamal, McCoy Tyner and Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, he gave up electronics in order to record (in an intimate way) a debut album commemorating his great-grandmother, using a hundred-year-old Steinway \u0026amp; Sons grand piano and analogue tape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe encounter with the main character begins in Maradtken (now Maradki), a place hard to find on the map, yet offering a very interesting story of remembrance and passing. In the early Iron Age a fortified settlement built by the people of the West Baltic Barrow culture was located there and it was bustling with life for many more centuries. The village was partially destroyed in the 18th century after a cholera cemetery had been established there. Around 1800, on a small hill a remarkable mill was built that remained a focal point of residents' life up until the outbreak of the Second World War.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarianna was Masurian. She was born in 1898, under Prussian rule, into a Polish- and German-speaking family. She spent her youth among Evangelicals being a devout Catholic herself, at the same time practicing traditional folk rites. She could cure people, she collected herbs, prepared potions and cast spells against illnesses. She had her own philosophy of life based on folk wisdom, which constituted a decalogue of her own, but she also relied on the extraordinary protection of the \"Most Holy Mother of God\". Marianna passed away at the age of 88, shortly before Marek was born. He only knew her from family stories which he then encapsulated in the emotional piano compositions on the album. Marianna is no longer with us, nor is the wooden mill in Maradki. In spite of this, the remembrance and peculiar recipes for life live on in the family, just as the afterimages of history in the old photographs from Maradtken have survived. Her story is universal: one of identity and wandering, of terror, the trauma of war, and perpetual scarcity. 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The EP was one of five simultaneous digital releases for free on 1 November 2022 (along with \u003ci\u003e11\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEarth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eToday \u0026amp; Tomorrow\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eUntitled (God)\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a continuation of the work on the first installment and is fairly slight at five tracks. The two bookends of the album, “4am” and “5am” are the most successful and enticing due to the vocals on offer, whereas the three “songs” in between are well orchestrated with the odd shadow of Copland’s “Appalachian Spring” for example, but feel like snippets of longer pieces—like highlights of an extended classical piece or soundtrack. — (via Albumism)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"470\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/1ZcsfK3qi8KNyoxCi9fWVQ?utm_source=generator\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e↓\u003cbr\u003eLabel: Forever Living Originals\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Vinyl, Album, LP\u003cbr\u003eCountry: Worldwide\u003cbr\u003eReleased: 2023\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Classical\u003cbr\u003eStyle: Choral\u003cbr\u003e⦿\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFile under: Modern Classical\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Forever Living Originals","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43674079559838,"sku":"712221017858","price":45.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0584\/5434\/3838\/files\/a2343871180_10.jpg?v=1714020679"},{"product_id":"sault-air","title":"Sault – AIR","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAIR \u003c\/i\u003eis the sixth studio album by English contemporary R\u0026amp;B group Sault. In a dramatic departure from their previous output, the UK collective taps into the spirituality of choral music and contemporary classical in an uplifting, celebratory, utterly gorgeous album. The enigmatic UK collective — which, despite their aversion to the media, is agreed by most to be helmed by producer and songwriter Inflo, whose real name is Dean Josiah Cover—has run through a slew of musical styles and themes in service of that goal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis LP tilts the balance back toward the positive. In a drastic turn from their previous output, SAULT have cast aside almost all of their identifiable hallmarks; gone are the funky rhythms, driving disco beats, and soulful crooning. As opener “Reality” begins with a crescendo of strings, horns, and a classical choir. Sonically, there’s little anchoring \u003cem\u003eAIR\u003c\/em\u003e to the group’s previous output, but its themes still zero in on a critical element of the Black experience: the need for self-care and celebration of individual blackness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThough Cover doesn’t give interviews, his short public statement in response to being named Producer of the Year by the BRIT Awards—the first time a Black artist has won the prestigious prize since its 1977 inception—is revealing. “All the Black producers before me, I’m in awe and have studied you,” he said. “I am you.” For him, digging deep into the history of great Black musicians wasn’t only an exercise in mastering a diverse range of genres; he wanted to understand their hardships, their triumphs, and how it informed the art they made. Music about the Black experience often feels timely, and it rarely matters if it was made for 1971 or 2022. As long as the cycle of hurt, the necessity for action, and the need for healing remains unbroken, music made for every point on the spectrum retains something that could be useful to another person down the line. With \u003cem\u003eAIR\u003c\/em\u003e, Cover intends to pass on an important message: love being Black, but don’t forget to love yourself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"570\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/7KR3GaBmiaydLWXrzHDKMt?utm_source=generator\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e↓\u003cbr\u003eLabel: Forever Living Originals\u003cbr\u003eFormat: 2x Vinyl, 12\", 45rpm, Album\u003cbr\u003eCountry: Worldwide\u003cbr\u003eReleased: Jul 2022\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Classical\u003cbr\u003eStyle: Choral\u003cbr\u003e⦿\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFile under: Modern Classical\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Forever Living Originals","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43674094403742,"sku":"0712221017773","price":60.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0584\/5434\/3838\/files\/a3285683292_10.jpg?v=1714020827"},{"product_id":"jean-luc-ponty-life-enigma-2024-reissue","title":"Jean Luc Ponty – Life Enigma (2024 Reissue)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is first vinyl press from original 2001 CD release. After a delay of nearly five years since the release (in 1996) of his final Atlantic CD, \u003c\/span\u003eLive at Chene Park\u003cspan\u003e, Jean-Luc Ponty's debut for his JLP label proves to be a finely hewed masterpiece from the violinist's studio workshop. He plays many of the instruments himself (keyboards, electronic drums and percussion, and synclavier) through overdubbing on most of the tracks, although it's readily apparent that these new compositions will work in performance with the talented supporting cast of his touring band. Ponty goes it alone on the richly textured \"Two Thousand-One Years Ago,\" and the mournful \"Lonely Among All.\" But \"Pizzy Cat\" (a playful shorthand reference to pizzicato), featuring Ponty unaccompanied, without overdubs, strumming and plucking his five-string Midi electric violin with synclavier, proves to be the most compelling of the solo performances. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe band members join him in various combinations on the remaining tracks, with the full group heard only on \"Firmament,\" which is seasoned with a catchy blend of Oriental and African flavorings. This is easily one of Jean-Luc Ponty's most compelling releases. The compositions on \u003cem\u003eLife Enigma\u003c\/em\u003e transcend genres, creating an immersive sonic experience that has captivated audiences worldwide. \"This was a very special project because of the work I did with sound colors and atmospheres in addition to the spontaneity of our improvised solos\", says Ponty about the album. — (via AllMusic)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/36fiDvfTHFEylipQj1Ho6f?utm_source=generator\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e↓\u003cbr\u003eLabel: MPS Records\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo\u003cbr\u003eCountry: Germany\u003cbr\u003eReissued: May 2024 \/ Original Release: 2001\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Jazz\u003cbr\u003eStyle: Fusion\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFile under: Modern Classical\u003cbr\u003e⦿\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MPS Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44022304243870,"sku":"4029759187929","price":55.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0584\/5434\/3838\/files\/71HRXjbiNTL-_UF1000-1000_QL80.jpg?v=1719231975"},{"product_id":"motrip-mosaik-orchestrated-by-jimek","title":"Motrip – Mosaik (Orchestrated By Jimek)","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eMohamed El Moussaoui, aka rapper MoTrip, was born in Beirut, Lebanon, but moved with his family to Germany prior to his third birthday. 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While MoTrip has not indicated for whom he has written music, in 2011, German rapper Eko Fresh claimed on Twitter that MoTrip wrote the Fler album \u003ci\u003eAirmax Muzik II\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eMoTrip is also credited as a co-author on the 2012 album \u003ci\u003eAMYF\u003c\/i\u003e by Berlin rapper Bushido.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn this live album, its rapper meets composer – with MoTrip and Jimek showing us what that sounds like ion the title track of their joint album \u003cem\u003eMosaik \u003c\/em\u003e. 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After a brief interlude playing jazz piano in private clubs in London, he returned to East Anglia. As well as first collaborating with his brother Brian and Daniel Lanois in 1983 on \u003cem\u003eApollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks\u003c\/em\u003e, he has made over a dozen solo albums and other collaborative pieces with the likes of Peter Hammill, The Orb and his first “band”, the ambient supergroup Channel Light Vessel, whose line-up included Laraaji, Kate St. John, Bill Nelson and Japanese cellist Mayumi Tachibana. He’s also teamed up as a session musician and band member with artists as diverse as The Orb, Lou Reed, Jarvis Cocker and Beck, and not to mention his three-year stint as Musical Director for Tim Robbins and his band, The Rogues Gallery. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis LP is an addendum to \u003cem\u003eThe Skies, They Shift Like Chords, \u003c\/em\u003espelling out Roger Eno’s further classical arrangements for keys, strings and voice, subtly gilded with synths and including unreleased material. As well as solo piano pieces, Rarities includes one track for choir and electronics (“Patterned Ground”), and one for string orchestra (“Breaking The Surface”), for which the instrumentalists of Scoring Berlin were asked to both play from the score and improvise. Guitarist Jon Goddard, meanwhile, appears on “Into Silence”, giving the track what Eno calls “a particular flavour it would otherwise have lacked”. — (via Label)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/2C3lj63WRMmoE9szKiObF7?utm_source=generator\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e↓\u003cbr\u003eLabel: Deutsche Grammophon\u003cbr\u003eFormat: LP, Album\u003cbr\u003eCountry: Worldwide\u003cbr\u003eReleased: 2024\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Classical\u003cbr\u003eStyle: Contemporary\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFile under: Modern Classical\u003cbr\u003e⦿\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deutsche Grammophon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44372523057310,"sku":"028948662692","price":48.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0584\/5434\/3838\/files\/roger-eno-the-skies-rarities.jpg?v=1728803617"},{"product_id":"roger-eno-and-brian-eno-luminous","title":"Roger Eno And Brian Eno - Luminous","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eLuminous \u003c\/em\u003eis an extension of\u003cem\u003e Mixing Colours\u003c\/em\u003e, the first duo collaboration between Roger and Brian Eno, which was developed over a 15-year period and released in 2020. These seven additional tracks were included with the album's digital \"expanded\" edition, and issued as a stand-alone vinyl EP. As with the album proper, these pieces were improvised by Roger using a MIDI keyboard, and Brian treated them with additional textural effects. None of these recordings would be out of place on the original release -- the mood remains balanced between calm reflection and slight shades of melancholy, and even though the melodies are clear and resonant, the alterations add enough of a sense of mystery to escape familiarity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Moss\" consists of simple, pretty piano notes floating above nothingness, gradually sporting a tail of reverb. \"Violet\" adds more sustain as well as more of a creeping progression, hinting at darker, more ominous thoughts. \"Vermillion\" has a more nostalgic tone, and seems like it could come closest to driving someone to tears if they're having a particularly vulnerable moment. \"Manganese\" is easily one of the EP's loveliest selections, resembling the feeling of floating still and soundlessly on one's back in a swimming pool and luxuriating in the absolute lack of care or worry. \"Marble\" similarly revels in soft vibrations, extending the weightless sensation for a few minutes longer than the other pieces, while \"Pewter\" has more of a warm, comforting glow. — (via AllMusic)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/playlist\/0fvM7e7QsIDQN0UvbEvPi0?utm_source=generator\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e↓\u003cbr\u003eLabel: Deutsche Grammophon\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Vinyl, 12\", 45 RPM, EP, Limited Edition, Yellow Translucent [Sun Yellow]\u003cbr\u003eCountry: Europe\u003cbr\u003eReleased: 2020\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Electronic\u003cbr\u003eStyle: Ambient, Modern Classical\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFile under: Modern Classical\u003cbr\u003e⦿\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deutsche Grammophon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44372525940894,"sku":"028948392988","price":30.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0584\/5434\/3838\/files\/rogereno__63353.jpg?v=1728804517"},{"product_id":"satsuki-shibano-wave-notation-3-erik-satie-1984","title":"Satsuki Shibano - Wave Notation 3: Erik Satie 1984","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe third album from the Wave Notation environmental music series curated by Satoshi Ashikawa, following his very own Still Way and Hiroshi Yoshimura's \u003cem\u003eMusic For Nine Postcards\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003eIt’s quite possible that no one has loved anything more than avant-garde Japanese musicians adored French composer Erik Satie in the 1980s. Looking to escape from the intense pressures of the economic boom that had transformed the country – at one time making it the largest creditor nation in the world – Satie’s gauzy, diaphanous compositions, all of which seem to flow out from a central river of quiet, radiant emotion, provided a refuge and an alternate world. Combined with the immersive sonics of Brian Eno – who was himself inspired by Satie – soothing sounds could be created that would detoxify the harried urban zones and resanctify the degraded natural spaces of industrial-corporate Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd perhaps no ‘80s Japanese musician loved Satie more than Satsuki Shibano. As a young college student, she was so taken with the composer’s work that she moved to Paris to study with pianist and writer Jean-Joel Barbier, Satie’s most indefatigable champion. After more than two years of apprenticeship, she moved back to Japan and began performing Satie’s work in her home country. So, when Sound Process label owner and Eastern ambient torch-bearer Satoshi Ashikawa approached Shibano about making an album for his crucial\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWave Notation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eseries (the first of which was\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMusic for Nine Postcards\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eby Hiroshi Yoshimura, whose work has also recently been reissued to much acclaim), a collection of Satie’s solo piano works was a natural fit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThough Shibano for the most part plays the pieces faithfully and respectfully, the album isn’t so straight-ahead. Its name hints at a preoccupation with time – this isn’t just\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eErik Satie\u003c\/em\u003e, but\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eErik Satie 1984,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ethe date of the record’s release. The obi strip that accompanied the original Japanese pressing also gave the years of Satie’s birth and death. But the songs – 26 tracks including well-trod selections from the “Gnossiennes” and “Gymnopedies,” and lesser-known works like the “Preludes flasques (pour un chien)” – are not grouped by chronology. Instead, Shibano arranges them in alphabetical order, a counterintuitive yet charming move that the notoriously mischievous Satie doubtlessly would have found apropos. This tactic not only separates thematically grouped compositions like the “Gnossiennes,” it brings into contact songs written a lifetime, and a world, apart. \u003cspan\u003eShibano mostly doesn’t indulge in such permutations, instead playing everything with a stately grace and firm touch, the high amounts of reverb and use of glowing sustain being the only real indicator of this recording’s specific time and place. — via Spectrum Culture\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"package_description_3\" class=\"peekaboo-text\"\u003e—\u003cbr\u003eIncludes Japanese \u0026amp; English liner notes by\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan id=\"package_description_3\" class=\"peekaboo-text\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eSatsuki Shibano\u003cbr\u003eReissue supervised by Yoshio Ojima\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/15ja68Tg3yqXEhwfWqklVY?utm_source=generator\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e↓\u003cbr\u003eLabel: We Release Whatever The Fuck We Want Records\u003cbr\u003eSeries: Wave Notation – 3\u003cbr\u003eFormat: 2 x Vinyl, LP, 45 RPM, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue\u003cbr\u003eReissued: 2023 \/ Original Release: 1984\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Electronic, Classical\u003cbr\u003eStyle: Contemporary, Minimal, Ambient\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFile under: Modern Classical\u003cbr\u003e⦿\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WRWTFWW Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44643573760158,"sku":"4251804141567","price":65.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0584\/5434\/3838\/files\/a0506353185_10.jpg?v=1733377383"},{"product_id":"venetian-snares-rossz-csillag-alatt-szuletett-20th-anniversary-repress","title":"Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Alatt Született (20th Anniversary repress)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e— The Analog Vault \/\/ Essential Listening —\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 12.0pt 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003eClassical melancholy collides with breakcore velocity on \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eRossz Csillag Alatt Született\u003c\/i\u003e, Aaron Funk’s 2005 release for Planet Mu. Strings sigh and brass swells before metrically wild drums slice through, editing virtuosity into balletic violence. Inspired by imagined lives in Hungary - the title translates to “Born under the wrong star” - the album threads pathos through dissonance, turning chaos into catharsis. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 12.0pt 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003eWhere extreme electronics often chase aggression, Funk made beauty from fracture. Nearly two decades later, \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eRossz Csillag Alatt Született\u003c\/i\u003e stands as Venetian Snares’ most celebrated work, a cult bridge between modern classical and avant-club extremity. — \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/theanalogvault.mom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eThe Analog Vault\u003c\/a\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat if, for just a day, we could both be pigeons? Sometimes one moment in time can take on such an important significance that it becomes an endless world unto itself and everything outside of that moment, past and future spots in time, become the folklore of that world. What if we could both fly over the Királyi Palota and see it just as these pigeons do? A beautiful culture of dissimilar angles as donkey angels above this city. But even in the world of the infinite moment, we cannot choose the feather of our bird and the pigeon may long to be the goose, the donkey the pigeon and so on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFurthermore as our world blossoms out of this single tick in time, it is for one pigeon a swirling romantic flood of euphoric possibility and fascination, for the other an inferior life of shitting on everyone from the sky, awkward and ashamed, resigning themselves to be the wretched nuisance they are painted as by those they shit on. Ultimately, as quickly as our world blooms, our world is discordant, and our pigeons are wounded, and as our world dies, we die, and we are extinct. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf only we could kill ourselves over and over until we get it right. So just as an entire genre of music can be born out of one sped up ten second breakbeat, a full symphony orchestra can come together in harmonic unison to create that perfect moment in time, thus every moment can give birth to an entirely new world, and every world can house the perfect moment, and just as that breakbeat may be broken beyond any recognition, that orchestra may combine to bring forth a dissonant barrage of colossal sorrow, and so the moment disintegrates it’s world and that world suffocates the moment under it’s collapse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese are love songs and grief songs. — (via \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/planet.mu\/releases\/rossz-csillag-alatt-szuletett\/\"\u003eLabel\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAaron Funk, most commonly referred to as Venetian Snares, has made some really intense, noisy, and from time-to-time danceable tracks over the years. He's produced some vicious abstract gabber type releases (Vs. Speedranch's Making Orange Things), variant experimentalist drum and bass (Chocolate Wheelchair, Doll Doll Doll), and even a few concept albums (Songs About My Cats, Winnipeg Is A Frozen Shithole EP). Never content on doing the same thing twice, he has followed up the industrial chill of last year's Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding - isn't he just the man with the snappy, radio-friendly titles - with a classical concept of love and grief songs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith the album title and every song in Hungarian, the foundation of each track being classical music tinged by Hungarian folk (as opposed to the typical Snares epileptic electronic torture) -- for which Funk learned the trumpet and electric violin -- accentuated by his signature ballistic drums that Funk keeps in careful check most of the time here, \u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eRossz Csillag Alatt Született\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e is surely his most accomplished album to date. Now I love the jarring insanity he usually comes up with, but averaging two full-lengths a year for six years as well as unique EPs and remix work, it seems occasionally like there's a bit of quantity over quality going on; but to pull an album like this out of nowhere is something approaching divine intervention. This is an album of uncouth beauty that is at once sublime, timeless, cinematic, sporadic, and moving from start to finish for the uppity junglist or the CBC Radio 1 listener in your family. Drill and bass has never and probably will never again be so elegant and emotional.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt's certain that if \u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eRossz Csillag Alatt Született\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e was written in the late 18th century, the poncey court critics would've lost sleep spewing a steady stream of praise ripe with the most obscure and descriptive words in their natural tongue before committing seppuku at the behest of Venetian Snares' cover of Rezsó Seress' \"Öngyilkos Vasárnap,\" better known as \"Gloomy Sunday\" the Hungarian suicide song, as would've been the style at the time had Seress also been born 150 years earlier, I'm almost positive. After a handful of years in the popular underground limelight, I believe Aaron Funk has created something bigger than himself. — (via \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.tinymixtapes.com\/music-review\/venetian-snares-rossz-csillag-alatt-sz%C3%A3%C2%BCletett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eTiny Mix Tapes\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" data-testid=\"embed-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/1GcVuxKE16rUkpZiqfPId3?utm_source=generator\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e↓\u003cbr\u003eLabel: Planet Mu\u003cbr\u003eFormat: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress, 20th Anniversary\u003cbr\u003eReissued: 2025 \/ Originally released: 2005\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Electronic, Classical\u003cbr\u003eStyle: Breakcore, IDM, Modern Classical\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFile under: TAV Essential Listening\u003cbr\u003eFile under: Electronic\u003cbr\u003e⦿\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Planet Mu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46034957402270,"sku":"5056321682956","price":60.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0584\/5434\/3838\/files\/a_03d45698-3354-4d7b-a088-9a4aaed75dc0.jpg?v=1759480414"}],"url":"https:\/\/theanalogvault.mom\/collections\/classical.oembed","provider":"The Analog Vault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}