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AMAZING SOUNDS No.128 / August 05, 2003
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CONTENTS:

REVIEWS:
PROGRAM@: "PHOENIX" At-Mooss Records
JOSEPH LOIBANT: "C1E2C5 (QUATRE COLUMNES)" At-Mooss Records
RICHARD AMOS: "DANCING IN THE DESERT" Exhibit Music
HYPNOSPHERE: "WITHIN THE WHIRL" Spheric Music
ALQUIMIA: "ANGAELIC VOICES" BSC / Prudence Music
BANDA MUNICIPAL DE BARCELONA / KOJI ASANO / PASCAL COMELADE / JAKOB DRAMINSKY /
PELAYO F. ARRIZABALAGA / JOAN SAURA Gracia Territori Sonor
TIBETAN RED & VICTOR NUBLA: "TAO POINT" Hronir
VICTOR NUBLA: "ANTICHTON" Hronir
ERIK WOLLO: "EMOTIONAL LANDSCAPES" Spotted Peccary Studios / Monumental Records
JEAN-PIERRE SACCOMANI & JEAN-LUC HERVE BERTHELOT: "EQUILIBRE THERMIQUE DE
L'IGLOO EN PHASE DE FONTE" MCP Productions / Somewhere in time Productions

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REVIEWS:

PROGRAM@:
"PHOENIX"
At-Mooss Records
The duo Program@ suceeds in surprising us once again with a number of
compositions that turn out to be imaginative, fresh and daring. Starting from a
general approach near to Synth-Pop, each one of the pieces engages its own way
through the frontiers of diverse genres related to electronic music and general
avantgarde. The wide variety of shades provides this work with a great musical
wealth, yet without it meaning an excessive dispersion, as the album presents a
very coherent line, a clear reflection of the duo's artistic personality. Their
musical ideas are powerful, crystal-clear, while at the same time leaving space
for the listener's imagination. The rhythms are sophisticated, often with a
percussion of a remarkable originality, which intimately intertwines with the
melodic structure. The melodies, full of strength, range into a broad spectrum,
from the symphonism of a space orientation to the incursions within the most
electronic side of Jazz-Rock. There are passages brimming with energy and
optimism. Others are hued with a romanticism at times subtly melancholic.
Likewise, the themes and passages that explore avantgarde areas of electronic
music are noteworthy indeed, yet the music never falls into useless
experimentation, and it also keeps the artistic sensitivity at all times.
"Phoenix" is no doubt an album that will set an important point in the artistic
trajectory of Program@.
JORGE MUNNSHE

http://www.at-mooss.com

JOSEPH LOIBANT:
"C1E2C5 (QUATRE COLUMNES)"
At-Mooss Records
In this soundtrack, now released in CD format, Joseph Loibant shows his most
symphonic side. With a solid approach, the music takes us to an exciting voyage
through stories and legends of the past. Some of the themes seem to evoke
crucial events in human history. Epic deeds accomplished by men and women
perhaps forgotten by history, yet of whose actions the old stone of survivor
buildings from that era was silent witness, if not an instrument of homage. The
music transmits to us all the charisma of these architectonic constructions that
defy the passage of centuries and become a palpable proof of human determination
and strength of will. Majestic melodies, epic, with a certain air of romanticism
at times enigmatic, crop up in all their greatness, impressive like monoliths,
wrapped by sophisticated orchestrations. Rocky rhythms whisper teluric secrets.
Other pieces turn out to be intensely near, like songs from childhood or
teenage ballads that bring us memories of places, people and feelings already
far away from us in time and distance. There also are passages dominated by the
vertigo of space, which confront the listener to the vastness of the universe.
Also remarkable are the passages and themes full of light, of a crystaline
beauty, between the human essence and the divine. The imaginative use of
synthesizers stresses the personality of the music. The soundtrack includes as
well a new version of the theme "Electra" by Loibant, originally released in his
album "Regression Alpha".
JORGE MUNNSHE

http://www.at-mooss.com

RICHARD AMOS:
"DANCING IN THE DESERT"
Exhibit Music
The Synth-Pop that Richard Amos makes in this album counts with an important
presence of melodies often with a transcendental air, or emotional in nature, as
if they were narrating thrilling adventures in faraway lands or situations where
the warmest emotions flow freely. An intense creative task can be appreciated
throughout the entire album, as well as in the electronic orchestrations.
ALEJANDRO HINOJOSA

HYPNOSPHERE:
"WITHIN THE WHIRL"
Spheric Music
This album constitutes the result of the collaboration of two electronic
musicians from quite different stylistic backgrounds. On the one hand, we have
Lambert, well known for his brilliant works in the side called "School of
Berlin" of the Space Sequencer Music. On the other hand, there is Wolfgang
Barkowski (Alien Nature), who comes from Dark Ambient. The result of their task
together is undoubtedly positive, and powerfully attracts the attention of the
listener in numerous passages. In a perfect climate of mystery, melodies of a
transcendental air intermingle with nebulous architectures of sound that appear
to project themselves into the vastness of an unknown cosmos.
EDGAR KOGLER

http://www.sphericmusic.de/

ALQUIMIA:
"ANGAELIC VOICES"
BSC / Prudence Music
Alquimia is a composer and singer who has always stood out for the innovation
and originality of her artistic approaches. She already amazed the music world
with "A Separate Reality", where she explored the musical roots of Mexico, her
homeland, with an approach near to Space Sequencer Music and classical
symphonism. In this occasion, she offers us a journey through the cultural roots
of the United Kingdom, her land of adoption, from a side nearer to New
Instrumental Music, and giving more protagonism to her warm voice. The music in
"Angaelic Voices", as the title suggests, presents Gaelic influences, and has a
certain angelical air, magic, as if it were from a fairy tale. Alquimia sings
here in several languages, including Gaelic, English, Latin and Catalan, and
besides, she records her vocals in different configurations so as to create
choruses and other often fascinating effects. In conclusion, this is an album
that will no doubt increase the reputation of this artist of an exquisite
sensitivity.
HECTOR JORDAN

http://www.bscmusic.com/

BANDA MUNICIPAL DE BARCELONA / KOJI ASANO / PASCAL COMELADE / JAKOB DRAMINSKY /
PELAYO F. ARRIZABALAGA / JOAN SAURA
Gracia Territori Sonor
This CD gathers the live recording of a concert by the Banda Municipal de
Barcelona (Town Hall Music Band of the City of Barcelona) held on October 6th.,
2001, in the Auditorium L'Espai. The pieces performed there, present in the
album, were:: "The way they do it in the fairy tales", composed by Koji Asano
and orchestrally conducted by himself; "L'argot du bruit", composed by Pascal
Comelade, with an orchestral adaptation by conductor Jakob Draminsky; "Pieza
giratoria", composed by Pelayo Fernández Arrizabalaga and orchestrally conducted
by himself, dedicated to Jep Nuix, an avantgarde composer untimely deceased; and
"ST.01", composed by Joan Saura and conducted in its performance by himself. The
pěeces, although of different styles, explore fields near to New Music and New
Instrumental Music, and are of a great complexity.
VALERIANO GUIOL

TIBETAN RED & VICTOR NUBLA:
"TAO POINT"
Hronir
A musical collaboration between Tibetan Red and Victor Nubla, carried out on
April 2000, which presents the most radical side of their respective styles.
Icy industrial music, alien to human nature, as if it were created with bits and
pieces of recordings in non-existent factories. Murmurs of industrial gear lost
in the farthest vastness of night in a deserted city. Machineries from Hell
working night and day in contless centuries to Eternity.
EDGAR KOGLER

VICTOR NUBLA:
"ANTICHTON"
Hronir
On February 7 and 8, 2001, about ten musicians from different countries
performed together music by Victor Nubla at the theatre L'Espai, in the city of
Barcelona. This album gathers a selection of the recordings from these two days.
Besides Victor Nubla himself (samplers, modified clarinets and MCO systems), the
following musicians also participated: Pascal Comelade (piano), Robin Storey
(sampler and small instruments), Io Casino (electronic bass and vocals), Anton
Ignorant (tapes, effects), Evru before Zush (synthesizer), Kasper T. Toeplitz
(electronic bass, computer), Francisco López (López systems), Guillermo Madrigal
(effects), Emilio Sánchez (percussion, small instruments and effects), Vicente
Martínez (sampler, synthesizer) This spectacular avantgarde ensemble staged
Nubla's music, already amazing as it is per se, in an absolutely impressive
manner. By displaying a formidable complexity, the themes explore numerous
experimental areas. and approach unusual ideas one after another
ALEJANDRO HINOJOSA

ERIK WOLLO:
"EMOTIONAL LANDSCAPES"
Spotted Peccary Studios / Monumental Records
Once again displaying his considerable skills to create impressive
orchestrations, Erik Wollo presents us with a work full of color and multiple
shades. The themes have a strong melodic component, and flow from New
Instrumental Music to the most symphonic side of Ambient, exhibit complex
rhythms of a varied dynamic structure, and soar in space elements, all this with
the unmistakable style of this artist.
EDGAR KOGLER

http://www.spottedpeccary.com

JEAN-PIERRE SACCOMANI & JEAN-LUC HERVE BERTHELOT:
"EQUILIBRE THERMIQUE DE L'IGLOO EN PHASE DE FONTE"
MCP Productions / Somewhere in time Productions
These two electronic composer, well known for their original approaches, in this
album offer us the results of their collaboration in August 2002. Their music,
deep and with a certain symphonic air, not lacking in surrealism, flows through
little explored paths in the Ambient and Space Music spheres. Fleeing from the
most frequent conventionalisms, they make a music rich in shades of all kinds,
with unusual architectures, ethereal melodies and ghostly orchestrations.
EDGAR KOGLER

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