| Details / Tracklist: |
1. EPILOGUE
2. QIZIL
3. VENUS M
4. X
1. GUDANNA
2. ASTARTE
3. QUT
4. EPILOGUE |
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| Number of discs: |
1 |
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| Description: | After 2 steamrolling EPs of club tracks on the label - now entering its tenth year of action - Magna
Pia presents his most complete and advanced body of work to date, weaving a dense narrative of
drone, figurative synthesis, bass-heavy electronica, and abstract techno.
Over eight tracks each referencing his rich cultural and musical background, we are treated to a
unique overview of a producer at the crest of his art. The word â??Qutâ?? is an ancient positive
affirmation, in one short word encompassing all that is scared, pure and good. The Old Turkic term
meaning not only â??good fortuneâ?? and â??joyâ??, but in shamanic circles, the â??wonder of the heavensâ??,
permeates the roots of Evirgenâ??s multi-heritage history.
That Evirgen expresses his interpretation of this central theme through the marriage of bewitching
melodies with atonal, experimental and rumbling electronics is a conscious comment on the
distortions and mutations of our Modern Era. We now exist in the digital age of the Technosphere
for better or worse, and must seek beauty where-ever possible.
The opening â??Prologueâ?? invites the listener into a futuristic yet organic sound world, where lush
stereo processing goes hand in hand with rumbling bass and subtly detuned drone languages.
From the echoes of traditional Uyghur folk music, translated via synthesizers into a glistening slowdiving
opus (â??Qizilâ??), to churning dub-techno adorned with a symphony of evolving sine-waves
(â??Venus Mâ??), Evirgen then deploys â??Xâ?? - a haunting experimental piece composed predominantly
with his voice and electronic processing.
The interweaving synth lines of â??Gudannaâ?? pierce the fog with a radiant and transcendent clubtechno
bounce before the ode to the ancient Bronze Age goddess â??Astarteâ?? unfolds its snare-driven
broken-beat formations. The title track â??Qutâ?? embodies by far the heaviest club track of the album,
in a deadly, stripped-back moment of future-techno hypnotism. Dancing flames of purple-tongued
synthesis are held (just) in line by a wonderfully tough throb of drums.
With his â??Epilogueâ??, Magna Pia allows the spectral ideas and concepts laid out across the LP to
connect and travel full circle, confirming our suspicions that this could be one of the most coherent
and exciting works to emerge in the brave new field of introspective, and sensitive technoelectronic
language. - |
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COUNTER034 |
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