Electroacoustic Music Vol VII - 2002

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"Volume VII in the Russian label "Electroshock Records" electroacoustic music series is a double CD affair. It gathers contributions from European, Israeli, North and South-American composers. The music covers a wide field of interests, from academic electroacoustics down to 70s-like analog electronics. Like any other such compilation (i.e. lacking a central theme), there are hits and misses, but the former overrun the latter. The strongest contribution on disc 1 comes from Claire Laronde, an artist already featured on a previous volume. Her 13-minute piece "Les Particules de la Perception" does not redefine the genre, but it is a captivating electroacoustic work nonetheless. Roderik De Man's "Air to Air, Part I" and Robin Julian Heifetz's "Flashpoint" both use as main sound source an acoustic instrument (bass clarinet and cello respectively) and constitute the other highlights. Disc 2 begins with a whooping 36 minutes of music (split over two works, both highly poetic) from the underrated Brazilian composer Jorge Antunes. Argentina's Jose Mataloni completes the South-American touch with his "Tiempo Dos". In the "misses" department we find Michal Bukowski's "Sen Paranoika 28", a "Tangerine Dream"-like tune that sounds very outdated in this collection. Arie Shapira's deconstructive DJ set "Gustl in Theresienstadt" fails to convince, while Oophoi's "Dissolving in the Void" doesn't reach the strength of the material on his own album "Bardo", released by "Electroshock" at the same time of this volume. Electroacoustic music lovers will find Electroshock Presents: "Electroacoustic Music. Vol. VII" a worthy item, if only for the pieces by Laronde and Antunes." - Francois Couture ("All-Music Guide")

The 2002 release in Electroshock's series of cutting edge and experimental music compilations. "This is art with a capital "A", there are no commercial considerations here, no pop hits. The two CDs contain a total of twenty tracks, and feature artists from right across the world....It has to be said that the contents on this double CD is in no way easy listening. It represents a challenge for anyones' ears, including mine - one really needs an appreciation of the surreal and perhaps the bizarre to even gain a foothold with the sound presentation on this double album." - John Peters ("The Borderland")