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FD 136LP
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Representing Ahad's Flux Worlds 2, this album arrives as the companion to the Flux Worlds 1 2CD, Nemo Point Soundmap..., co-released by Fourth Dimension Records and Hinge Thunder in January 2023. Recorded live, this once again takes the listener through an immersive setting where real time electronics converge with improvised viola, percussion, cello, trumpet, synths, gadgets and so on to create vast washes of avant-garde turbulence that assumes a stance rarely seen outside very early electroacoustic-flavored kosmische music or abstract droneworks. This LP is published with the support of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin program.
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FD 136CD
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Representing Ahad's Flux Worlds 1, the lengthily titled Memo Point Soundmap for Terrestrial Melanoheliophobics album is the very latest solo offering from this Hungarian sonic traveler now based in Berlin, Zsolt Sőrés. Spread over the two discs are seven pieces that take a combination of viola, bass, piano strings, voice, mellotron, dictaphone, percussion, and all manner of other instrumentation and objects into a realm where inner space folds in on itself and unwittingly assumes the guise of multitudinous journeys to those far-reaching points many a shaman (sonic or otherwise) has attempted to draw from. Despite his background in academic music, Zsolt has always broken beyond this with the help of a deep-seated interest in kosmische music, psychedelia, and the kind of improvisational approach responsible for having produced artists as wide-ranging as AMM, This Heat, and Organum. Also, these days, a regular collaborator with Zappi of Faust, past credits include collaborative work with Jean-Herve Peron of Faust, Faust themselves, Franz Hautzinger, Christian Kobi, Adam Bohman, Theme, and many more. He also works with Hilary Jeffery in the fully immersive wall of stream-of-consciousness sound that is Inconsolable Ghost. If anybody could be heralded as a true practitioner of what could be best described as transitional music in its purest form, then Zsolt must be that artist.
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FD 076CD
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2011 release. This is the debut album by this fantastic Budapest-based musician who'd previously only made this available as a privately-issued CD-R. From cuts that combine tranced-out rhythms the likes of which have rarely been witnessed since the Taj Mahal Travellers with tidal waves of Lee Ranaldo-esque guitar to others where minimal piano melodies are allowed to twist and shimmer like phantoms in the moonlight or where murky moodiness is angled into more threatening shapes, The Harmonian Blues feels like an album whose rich abundance of ideas is both all-encompassing and measured enough to retain some of that all-important mystery. Nothing is superfluous or outstays its welcome, and everything slides together organically yet never strays from the objective. On one hand, it's impressive for its purity and, on the other, the very fact it expresses so much via often minimal and simplistic means really cannot fail to pull the listener helplessly in. If Zsolt is exploring voids of his own making, which is precisely how things appear, then there are far less worthy currents one could allow themselves to be snagged by. Powerful, emotional and driven by seemingly near-mythical yet firmly intuitive forces, The Harmonian Blues commands to be listened to and, indeed, will reveal so much along the way. Fucking incredible.
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