lunes, 8 de octubre de 2012

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The Wire #344, October 2012 (UK)
























The latest volume in our series of experimental and underground music compilation CDs.
Featuring 20 new, rare or unreleased tracks from Matthewdavid, Captain Miki, After The Rain, Center of the Universe featuring Easy, Andrey Kiritchenko, Wires Under Tension, David Coulter & Ralph Carney, Manuella Blackburn, Tudor Acid, Every Hidden Color, Valgeir Sigursson, Rhodri Davies, Last Days, Merzouga, Food Pyramid, Lind, Bohm, Ghikas & Walshe, jealousy mountain duo, Lasse-Marc Riek and Bersarin Quartett.

The Wire Tapper 30 CD comes with every copy of The Wire October 2012 (issue 344) and is available as a download to digital and print subscribers. For more information and a full tracklist head here.
Track 10
Every Hidden Color 
“I” (excerpt) 

from Luz
(Streamline)
Federico Durand and Nicholas Szczepanik work together as the duo Every Hidden Color. Durand weaves simple melodies together with field recordings made in the heart of Argentina. He adores books, autumn, John Keats’s poetry, botanical prints and Earl Grey tea. Szczepanik’s audio narratives are influenced by contemporary philosophy and fiction, and address the modern human condition with maximum emotional impact. 
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Thank you very much, The Wire! F.

domingo, 7 de octubre de 2012

"Luz" (Streamline, 2012) reviewed by Fluid Radio


EVERY HIDDEN COLOR: LUZ
Posted On: October 7, 2012

Environmental sounds receding before gentle notes. Notes blurring into tones. Tones washing into grains, and fading into clouds and spaces. Spaces filled by the sound of rain…
These two long-form pieces are the result of collaboration between Federico Durand and Nicholas Szczepanik – both authors of fantastic albums this year – Durand’s ‘El Libro De Los Árboles Mágicos’ and Szczepanik’s ‘Please Stop Loving Me’ – the first an expert blend of field recordings and electronic textures, the latter a wonderfully realized slice of choral drone.
There is always a danger that collaboration will result in less than the whole – either each player backs off too much, too respectful and we lose their individual voices, or both deploys every bag-of-tricks they know to try and snare the spotlight. Happily, there is none of this here. We can guess at who might be responsible for leading each segment; the evolving drone in the second half of the first side bears Szczepanik’s fingerprints – the interplay of recordings and textures that bookend it feel more like Durand’s, but to ‘train-spot’ these passages misses the point of most collaborative practices, and the quality of the music here.
Having open, slow moving pieces works to the music’s advantage – rather than try to distill ideas into four or six pieces, segments, ideas, themes, sounds, are given space to unspool slowly (like the sound of film spooling through projector that runs through the opening minutes of side 2). While this can lead to hours of aimless noodling – a cd-r is can feel a very long seventy-four minutes – here the shifts between longer passages are perfectly timed; a looped vocal phoneme pings gently between speakers, and twenty seconds later, the entrance of plucked chords – a hint of banjo – changes the focus beautifully.
The second side slides in and out of focus – like the sepia pink-toned photograph on the cover – sometimes highlighting notes and chords, sometimes slipping back into time-dilating waves of granular sound. These shifts between textures are a joy to listen to – never jarring, never simply one obliterating the other – a sense of four hands at the desk, working with one mind.
This is a gem of an album; beautiful, thoughtful, that creates its own sense of time by giving its many ideas space to unfold. Guaranteed to reward repeated listens, get this while you can. Recommended!
- John Boursnell for Fluid Radio

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Thank you very much Fluid Radio, John Boursnell and Daniel Crossley!

sábado, 6 de octubre de 2012

Una hermosa reseña en Rockdelux, España



Federico Durand

"El libro de los árboles mágicos" 
Home Normal

Every Hidden Color

"Luz"
Streamline-Drag City-¡Pop Stock!

Rockdelux #310, octubre de 2012

PAISAJE SONORO Láminas de botánica, ediciones antiguas de cuentos infantiles, cajitas de música de latón, la poesía de John Keats o los tratados de hierbas de Hildegard von Bingen. Esa es la clase de cosas que hacen feliz a Federico Durand, y lo cierto es que el argentino no solo es un afanado coleccionista de objetos: también lo es de sonidos. Los que llenan "El libro de los árboles mágicos", urdido en melodías digitales que brillan se desvanecen como luciérnagas, dibujan una senda entre eucaliptos, hojas de romero y ríos. Si "El éxtasis de las flores pequeñas" (2011) evocaba los viajes y recuerdos de Durand junto a sus abuelos, estas siete piezas son un homenaje a La Serranita, el pueblo donde su madre tiene una cabaña. El álbum, que incluye colaboraciones con Chihei Hatakeyama, Ian Hawgood -un tema ya aparecido en "Slow films in low light"- y Fuqugi, se rinden a la belleza de la naturaleza y la usa como una puerta hacia fantasías desveladas como pequeños secretos, relatadas a través de la cualidad narrativa del sonido.

Después de constantes retrasos por parte de Arbor, finalmente ha sido Streamline -el subsello de Drag City regentado por Christoph Heemann- la etiqueta encargada de la edición en vinilo de "Luz", la primera entrega del proyecto que Federico Durand comparte con Nicholas Szczepanik. Son dos piezas que rozan los veinte minutos cada una, grabadas en dos días. El sentido nato de la melodía de Federico se funde con la habilidad de Szczepanik para fabricar inmensas masas ambientales, dando forma a un sonido nublado como el vapor del té que no solo respeta el encanto preciosista y delicado del trabajo de Durand sino que lo eleva, dotándolo de un poder de ensoñación verdaderamente hermoso.

Juan Monge

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Muchas gracias Juan! Abrazo desde el Sur!