First Listen: Circa (Limited Edition CD Series).
February 16, 2011, 0 comments
The Australian label Preservation from Marrickville, New South Wales recently started a special edition CD series named Circa, limited to 300 copies per release and featuring cover art by Sydney’s Mark Gowing, each work consisting of “a specially created abstract alphabet of shapes, determined by artist, title and catalogue number for something both fixed and random”.
Listen to four cuts from the first two, mind-blowing Circa releases by Fabio Orsi and Area C below:
Originally hailing from southern Italy but currently based out of Berlin, Fabio Orsi makes some kind of very dark and raw ambience on Stand Up Before Me, Oh My Soul!, a guitar-based record that focuses on non-electronic instruments to create immense walls of sound that get interrupted by crude, crushing drum patterns, bass guitars or subtle horn blows, apparently whatever is available to break open the thick layers of reverberated and distorted noise.
Fabio Orsi – Folks! My Soul Stands Up Before You!
Fabio Orsi – Papa Show Me Your Blues LPs
The record by Providence, Rhode Island’s Erik Carlson aka Area C is no less ambient but still something entirely different. Building on amazingly arranged patterns of warm analog synth, guitar and organ sounds, Carlson creates rich soundscapes with most minimal means. Map of Circular Thought is a very contemplative effort, sonic meditations that sometimes almost adopt the shape of sound installations – a slow-burning masterpiece all along.
