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01. Martin Rev - My Strange World
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ARTIST
REV, MARTIN
TITLE
Strangeworld
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
BUREAU B
CATALOG #
BB 337CD
BB 337CD
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
10/16/2020
"A strange world
Martin Rev
's fifth solo album --
Strangeworld
-- was released on the cusp of the new millennium. The label responsible was Puu, a Finnish imprint belonging to
Tommi Grönlund
and
Mika Vainio
's Sähkö Recordings which came to fame in the 1990s on the strength of its uncompromising minimalist sound. Four years earlier, in 1996, Rev had unleashed
See Me Ridin'
, an album which surprised its listeners with keyboard melody sketches and distilled doo-wop compositions. It was also the first solo album to feature Martin Rev on vocals.
Strangeworld
started where its predecessor left off. Melodic passages dissolved into a thicket of fragments and set pieces, coalescing in a celestial shimmer between rhythm loops and Rev's voice, which assumed the role of an additional instrument rather than a standard singing part. Martin Rev's familiar murmurs and hums are there, but the music on
Strangeworld
no longer feeds on the furious rumbling of the electrified city. Instead we hear wonderfully naive singing, lost in reverie, Martin Rev's condensed teenage memories of days when young hearts were breaking to the sound of doo-wop melodies on the transistor radio. There are still flashes of contemporary music and traces of dance elements, but Rev maintains these entered his musical spectrum subconsciously: 'Techno wasn't specifically on my mind while recording but for sure it was already part of the musical environment at that time so easily may have become added to some of the nuances that were revealing themselves in the album's process.' Rev took charge of the album production himself in his home city of New York: '
Strangeworld
was mostly produced at a private studio that I booked as much as couple of days a week. It was the beginning of engineers setting up rental studios even in their homes since digital, then in the form of ADAT, and early computerization had suddenly made it possible.' If Säkhö seems an unlikely partner to release the record, there is, on closer examination, a certain congruity between Rev's work and the radical minimalism of the Finnish label's sound . . . Twenty years have passed since
Strangeworld
was first released, but the world it revealed remains as strange and enigmatic as ever." --
Daniel Jahn
, May 2020
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