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AMAZING SOUNDS No.110 / September 27, 2001
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Our condolences to all the people who have suffered loss of family
or friends in the terrorist attacks of September 11.

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CONTENTS:

NEWS

INTERVIEW WITH JORGE RIESCO. Jorge Riesco is an artist with a wide
musical vision, whose music goes beyond the conventional, breaking
barriers among styles and communicating a wide range of feelings
and emotions.

REVIEWS:
RICHARD BONE: "TALES FROM THE INCANTINA" Indium / Quirkworks
Laboratory
DARSHAN AMBIENT: "DARSHAN AMBIENT:" Darshan Music
ANATOLY PERESELEGIN: "DOWNLOAD THE GOD" Electroshock Records

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NEWS

Bjorn Lynne has decided to have a CD-sale with all profits going
to American Red Cross. Starting from September 26 and lasting
until October 6, all profits made from this CD-sale will go,
entirely, to American Red Cross donations. The following CDs are
included in the sale: "The Gods Awaken", "Wolves of the Gods",
"Wizard of the Winds", "Revive", "Witchwood", "Isms" (Divinorum),
"Talisman" (Divinorum). More information here:
http://www.lynnemusic.com

After the terrorist attacks of 11 September, Paul Winter's 22nd
Annual Winter Solstice Celebration in New York city (Cathedral of
St.John the Divine), celebrating the return of the light after the
longest night, will be all the more poignant. Paul Winter and
guest artists from around the world performing at 7.30pm on 13, 14
and 15 December and at 2pm on 15 December. You will find more
information at:
http://www.livingmusic.com/solstice/wintersolstice.html

The new album by Vangelis, "Mythodea", has been released.

The new Michel Huygen's solo album will be released in October-
November 2001.

Pascal Languirand, an imaginative renovator of electronic music
that became famous specially thanks to his theme "Living on Video"
(Trans-X) has achieved other wonderful work with the new Trans-X
album: "01.01.01". With a solid electronic basis, this CD is a
nice journey through melodies of a great emotional intensity and
rhythms that range from Techno to Pop.

12th Visual Music Festival of Lanzarote (Canary Islands, Spain)
Sep 29, 22h., Playa del Reducto - Mamadou Diabate
Sep 29, after M. Diabate, Playa del Reducto - Toure Kunda
Oct 11, 21h., Cueva de los Verdes - Maya Homburger & Barry Guy
Oct 12, 21h., Cueva de los Verdes - Eberhard Weber
Oct 13, 19h. Volcan del Cuervo - Brian Eno & J. Peter Schwalm

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INTERVIEW WITH JORGE RIESCO
By: Jorge Munnshe

Jorge Riesco is an artist with a wide musical vision, whose music
goes beyond the conventional, breaking barriers among styles and
communicating a wide range of feelings and emotions.

We could begin with a little history. How did your interest in
music start? And your vocation as a composer? Do you feel or have
you felt influenced by some artists or bands that in a way might
have contributed to your artistic education?

"My interest started more or less spontaneously when I was at high
school, maybe at age 13 or 14. By that time I asked my parents for
a guitar as a Christmas present. Since I didn't know how to play
it or even less tune it, from the first day I devoted my time to
composing. I do not consider myself to be a "fan" of any given
artist. I listen to a wide variety of music, some works I like
best, others less so. If I can, I purchase the scores of the works
I like and study them. I always learn something. Therefore, my
influences are probably varied but likewise diffuse."

Would you define your music in some way? Do you consider yourself
linked to any given musical trends or genres?

"I don't worry about being linked to any given musical genre. More
or less, I follow a style that could be labelled as progressive,
electronic or new age. Yet this could as well change."

How was your first album,"Jorge", elaborated? Was it the result of
the progressive accumulation of ideas during a long time or rather
the consequence of your creativity working during a given period
of time?

"It came when the sound cards appeared, and with them, the
possibility to play a voice to a score, record it, return to the
beginning, and as this voice sounded in an acceptable manner, play
a second voice, and a third, and a fourth. I had already tried to
record a voice on a cassette recorder, rewind and play the second
voice, but that sounded awful. I guess that anyone who has tried
to use a casette some time to play live music knows what I mean."

"For a time I enjoyed my sound card and slowly it occurred to me I
could release an album. When I decided on that, I bought a
synthesizer and a digital recorder and started to work. I thought
about doing a CD that lasted approximately for about an hour,
alternating slow and fast parts. Then I composed most of the music
for this album, although I also used some fragments from former
years. The total time invested in my project was approximately
eight months."

How did you get the idea of composing this album with poems by
Ismael Florito?

"Ismael participates with some frequency in poetic events. He
brought me a folder with the texts of his latest recital and asked
me to write some music to use as background. When I had the music
ready I showed it to him and then we thought we could release the
album. I selected some texts from his folder. We looked for some
readers and recorded their voices. Due to a series of adverse
circumstances the readers could not rehearse their parts
previously to the recording, so we got a spontaneous result. (As
far as I know, this is the only album to ever include a mistake
page)"

Do you compose following a given process?

"I utilize diverse processes. Here are some: Traditional
composition writing on a score sheet, improvisation, computer
generated melodies, and all sorts of tricks and variants I know
of, or that I may think of. I even use mistakes. Once I kept a
score in my computer. Then I touched a wrong set of sequence keys
and the score was completely deformed. And it had become far more
interesting than the original theme!"

Do you think that Internet is going to change the structure of the
musical industry? Do you believe that Internet is going to force
the most powerful sectors of the label industry to bet less for
the archifamous musician anchored on a comfortable commercial
value and more for such artists as those who risk their careers
doing new things?

"Internet allows any artist, however strange this may seem, to
become known at an international level. And probably it's just
this. I do not believe that any structure is going to change in
the short term. I guess that the most commercial music is going to
get a tremendous push."

Tell us about your current activities. Are you working on a new
album or preparing some other kind of project?

"I already have several fragments that I could record a new album
with, perhaps even two. I may release a new CD betweeen this fall
and winter."

You can listen to fragments of Jorge Riesco's albums here:

http://www.mp3.com/JorgeRiesco

Our review about the album "Jorge":

http://www.amazings.com/reviews/review0391.html

Our review about the album "Ismael Florito":

http://www.amazings.com/reviews/review0748.html

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Michel Huygen has granted to Amazing Sounds the privilege of
exclusively selling via internet the CDROM "Hypnotika vol.1".
More information here:

http://www.amazings.com/articles/article0082.html

Free samples of the CDROM here:

http://www.neuronium.com/CDROM.htm

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REVIEWS:

RICHARD BONE:
"TALES FROM THE INCANTINA"
Indium / Quirkworks Laboratory
The music in this album consists of eleven themes inspired by the
spiritual philosophy, the religious beliefs and the ancient myths
of the Toltec peoples. A CD which can be considered a good example
of Ambient Music, the musical impressions the listener gets in
each one of these tracks create a relaxing, dreamlike soundscape
that will no doubt appeal to the lovers of this musical genre.
ARIADNA MARTIN.

If you wish to purchase this recording you only have to use this
link:

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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/79471/

DARSHAN AMBIENT:
"DARSHAN AMBIENT:"
Darshan Music
The six themes included in this album are within the purest
Ambient genre, as the title on the cover suggests. This is truly
relaxing music, conducive to meditation or simply nice to listen
to. Thus aimed at a wide audience, this CD, which also shares
traits of New Instrumental Music, will no doubt appeal to a broad
range of listeners.
ARIELLE MALREAUX.

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have to use this link:

http://gemm.com/q.cgi?rb=AMAZINGS&artist=DARSHAN+AMBIENT

ANATOLY PERESELEGIN:
"DOWNLOAD THE GOD"
Electroshock Records
There are six tracks in this CD, all of them inspired by the books
of the Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel. Yet, the composer creates a
soundscape of an experimental nature, provocative, where the
traditional blends with minimalist touches, psychedelic traits,
wondrous passages, resulting in a disquieting music, all that
within an electroacoustic framework that will no doubt please the
followers of experimental paths at their purest.
SIGRID BAUMANN.

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