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Sounds Like: Review of Level "Cycla" CD, Spekk- Japan
Eno style slow downs, only in the digital domain...a sonic integrity throughout supports some very visual music, luminescent sonic fictions. From the off we are in the territory of a space odyssey via the slo mo frame sequence although this could be based on earth too: I am reminded of a John Adams classical record I bought, 'Shaker Loops' (1983): it's something about the pathos that resonates from the music: other comparisons could include Deltraxx's 'Alaska Slowwater' on the fax labels 'Ambient Compilation 3', in the early 90's. The bespoke sleeve, pretty much plastic free, contains photographic work by Maura Wallace, from the "ICE series", and there is something glacial about the music, its slow pace, its steady presence. Although this could be taken too generally, as at times you get more of a sense of velocity, in a smooth way, and this also affects the perception of space within the music. There are an interesting range of sound sources used: there sounded like there was some electric and acoustic guitar at one stage; and some brush strokes on the snare briefly too, but again within the slow motion time frames and generally reverential treatments employed here. Some very contemplative music, in a not dissimilar ground as Sakamoto and Nicolai's recent 'Insen'.(Ben Guiver) Dogmanet
With the exception of a more "normal" final track, "Cycla" is an engrossing album, finely conceived and structured by sound artist and designer B.G.Nichols. All over the disc, streams of otherworldly resonances and distant echoes of semi-sculpted rhythms accompany the listener, playing hide-and-seek in every invisible corner to reveal themselves again, enhanced by their self-regenerative projection, in the space between the ears and the outside world - and, if possible, showing even more grace. Although pretty consonant, often with a tendency to sadness, "Cycla" maintains a perfect evenness between the obvious will to discover "what lurks behind" the sound and a long-desired passivity, continuously caressed by sonic architectures which seem to contain the teachings of Brian Eno, Steve Tibbetts and Suso Saiz, disassembled and lyophilized into a sense of undescribable gratification of the nerves. With this release, Nichols has managed to put out one of the best "accessible" soundscapes heard in recent times, music which is elegant yet profound.(Massimo Ricci) Touching Extremes
Record Label: WHITE_LINE Editions
Type of Label: Indie