Eastern Haze: December
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# Eastern Haze: December
Our December installment is no year-end retrospective overview since
there are plenty of aural novelties emitted to the sonisphere courtesy
of all the tireless evangelists. It is as if the failed Mayan prophecy
-- or is it that we are living in some kind of ersatz simulacrum of
reality? -- has propelled musicians and their patrons to release as much
music as possible this month in the face of the impending entropy.
**Piotr Kurek** is one of the most acclaimed contemporary Polish
musicians nowadays, with an album on Foxy Digitalis under his belt.
Following a kosmische cooperation with **Sylvia Monnier** in Suaves
Figures, he returns with a solo installment, a noodly nostalgic
electronic journey this time also laden with yearning vocals. Edena is
out now on tape on Sangoplasmo.
**Balázs Semsei** aka **Norwell** also follows the synth-bound
trajectory, weaving a narrative through synthetic electronic
territories, mellow and exploratory tangents. The youth of Budapest seem
to be in thrall of tweaking the soul out of vintage electronics, the
808s, 303s, 101s, as I have found out last month.
\[soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/71606470″ params=""
width=" 100%" height="166″ iframe="true" /\]
Another space kommunique comes courtesy of the Sofians **1000names**,
whose predominantly beat-oriented music also ventures into more offbeat
realms. No wonder their latest EP *A Minute a Day* is accompanied by a
short science story introducing a brand new machine, the
[TAPE-D-TRON-1000][1]{: target="_blank" rel="noopener"}, which is able
to "translate the audio signal from a magnetic tape into abstract
virtual images which are then projected through a complex sensory system
in front of the eyes".
**∑BOL▲ ▲P∑**, the mysterious monkey from Congo via Gdansk, continues in
the extraterrestrial sonic vein of this month, immersed in an ominous
haze and interspersed with mangled vocals not dissimilar to those by the
master of this craft (Burial, ofc), with an almost ironically entitled
release *Humanity*, as if it wasn't its demise that we've been
witnessing in the last couple of years. It seems that these days in
music, it's either escapism or doom-mongering that chimes with producers
from Belgrade to Berlin, from Košice to Brooklyn. With the coming year,
with 13 attached to it, I don't expect a (sonic) redemption.~
Illustration: Vitto Valentinov
[1]: http://vittovalentinov.com/content/tape-lepatyc-trip-200910
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text: '<p>Our December installment is no year-end retrospective overview since there are plenty of aural novelties emitted to the sonisphere courtesy of all the tireless evangelists. It is as if the failed Mayan prophecy – or is it that we are living in some kind of ersatz simulacrum of reality? – has propelled musicians and their patrons to release as much music as possible this month in the face of the impending entropy.</p><p><strong>Piotr Kurek</strong> is one of the most acclaimed contemporary Polish musicians nowadays, with an album on Foxy Digitalis under his belt. Following a kosmische cooperation with <strong>Sylvia Monnier</strong> in Suaves Figures, he returns with a solo installment, a noodly nostalgic electronic journey this time also laden with yearning vocals. Edena is out now on tape on Sangoplasmo.</p><p><strong>Balázs Semsei</strong> aka <strong>Norwell</strong> also follows the synth-bound trajectory, weaving a narrative through synthetic electronic territories, mellow and exploratory tangents. The youth of Budapest seem to be in thrall of tweaking the soul out of vintage electronics, the 808s, 303s, 101s, as I have found out last month.</p><p>[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/71606470″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]</p><p>Another space kommunique comes courtesy of the Sofians <strong>1000names</strong>, whose predominantly beat-oriented music also ventures into more offbeat realms. No wonder their latest EP <em>A Minute a Day</em> is accompanied by a short science story introducing a brand new machine, the <a href="http://vittovalentinov.com/content/tape-lepatyc-trip-200910" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TAPE-D-TRON-1000</a>, which is able to “translate the audio signal from a magnetic tape into abstract virtual images which are then projected through a complex sensory system in front of the eyes”.</p><p><strong>∑BOL▲ ▲P∑</strong>, the mysterious monkey from Congo via Gdansk, continues in the extraterrestrial sonic vein of this month, immersed in an ominous haze and interspersed with mangled vocals not dissimilar to those by the master of this craft (Burial, ofc), with an almost ironically entitled release <em>Humanity</em>, as if it wasn’t its demise that we’ve been witnessing in the last couple of years. It seems that these days in music, it’s either escapism or doom-mongering that chimes with producers from Belgrade to Berlin, from Košice to Brooklyn. With the coming year, with 13 attached to it, I don’t expect a (sonic) redemption.~</p><p>Illustration: Vitto Valentinov</p>'
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# Eastern Haze: December Our December installment is no year-end retrospective overview since there are plenty of aural novelties emitted to the sonisphere courtesy of all the tireless evangelists. It is as if the failed Mayan prophecy -- or is it that we are living in some kind of ersatz simula...
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The youth of Budapest seem to be in thrall of tweaking the soul out of vintage electronics, the 808s, 303s, 101s, as I have found out last month. \[soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/71606470″ params="" width=" 100%" height="166″ iframe="true" /\] . Another space kommunique comes c...