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Artemiy Artemiev 
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A. Artemiev & P. Klinger - A Moment of Infinity Order Number ELCD022 
Retail Price from indie-cds.com site A$30.00: / Unit IMPORTANT Please note no orders will be despatched now until Dec 14th - we are having a holiday! If you don't mind waiting until then you can order now. Wholesale Price A$18.00: / Unit "A Moment of Infinity" is the second collaboration between Artemiy Artemiev and Phillip B. Klingler (a.k.a. PBK). "Dreams in Moving Space" (released 2000) created an eerie, haunted atmosphere. This one is more tempered, although "A Rite of Passage" has its disquieting moments. Most of the elements from the first album were used again, but with more subtlety. Ghostly samples play a lesser role. Whenever rhythms appear, they consist of tribal percussion instead of electronic beats. Here, one must point out the quality of the programming. Everything on the album is played via keyboards - no "real" percussion whatsoever, but they truly feel natural. "Broken Sleep in the Fracture Zone" quickly sets the tone: long keyboard chords, spacy synth swirls, some odd samples and unidentified sounds. All this is sculpted with great artistry, more detailed but with less immediate impact than on the previous CD. The first track ends with an episode of tribal percussion and grunts, very suggestive. The main piece should be the 27 minute title track, but it gets lost in its own meanders, lingering on for too long. It is quickly eclipsed by "A Rite of Passage" where the voice of Artemiev's young son, sampled women voices, and heavier experimental electronics (filter manipulations the likes of Fennesz and Hazard) give the piece a different personality and bring the album to an excellent stop. "A Moment of Infinity" requires a bit more effort from the listener, but it rewards accordingly." - Francois Couture ("All-Music Guide") "A Moment of Infinity" opens with "Broken Sleep in the Fracture Zone", an eleven minute collage of ambient drones, industrial creaks and groans, distant 'tribal' like percussion, and an overwhelming feeling of being a speck in the cosmos. I also get a disturbing mind-picture of a blasted landscape full of the distant howls of whalesong or mutated foghorns... Next track is "The Other Side of the Inner World" - this opens with some slow and very deep marimba-type vibes mixed with gentle, almost industrial style drones, a gamelan drifts in and out, the whole soundscape just drifts in space past that orbiting Dunkin' DoNuts franchise with its flickering fluorescent sign. "Endless Voyage" is next, and as the title suggests it is extremely cosmic - again a drifting, shifting variety of drones and samples weave and entwine across the speakers, a clock strikes the hour and then morphs into a mutated twang, this track doesn't really go anywhere, but that, of course, is the whole point. The overall effect is of hanging around one of the LaGrange Points in a spacesuit and literally chillin' out... Track 4, "In a Moment of Infinity" is the album's magnum opus in terms of length - twenty seven minutes and small change - and once again a clock is striking the hour over some low key drones and pulses, riven here and there with sampled choral voices and radio-astronomy radio chatter. One keeps expecting to see the monolith from "2001: A Space Odyssey" floating across the speakers. Despite its length, there's a richness in sound and feel here, and an awe-inspiring timelessness - space is kinda huge, ya know, but that space between your ears is even bigger! The final track is "A Rite of Passage", darker sounds now, perhaps the ghouls of a graveyard are coming out to play, the sounds are certainly more demonic. A tribal, almost voodoo, beat emerges from the crowing voices and it chugs along as the drums beat on, joined by the flapping of batwings. Voices chant in the distance, debatable whether they are angelic or that of the Hellish Host - then again, this could be where all the rappers go when they die... "A Moment of Infinity" is an impressive album - for much of its duration it is a space trip, the nearest thing to hitching a lift on that UFO doing the grand tour of the Solar System and all points up. Only the final track tends to darken that vision into something akin to falling into a black hole. This collaboration between Artemiy Artemiev and Phillip B. Klinger seems to have brought out the visionary in both of them and it is a vision well worth seeking out. " - John Peters ("The Borderland") "The prolific Russian musician, composer and producer Artemiy Artemiev continues his collaborations with other musicians from all over the world. "A Moment of Infinity" showcases five long experimental and artsy suites with e-orchestral backgrounds and noises worked out with Phillip B. Klingler, whom we are used to refer to as P.B.K.. This is Artemiev's second collaboration with him (the first one being "Dreams in Moving Space", 2000) but the overall sound differs from the first one as it is more atmospheric and less "noir". There are practically no electronic beats and actually no definite rhythmical structures are to be found (except for a short percussive pattern in the last and darker composition), yet there are a number of weird tribal sampled percussions that give it a truly native and distant appeal. The Russian coldness of deserted landscapes covered in snow is only one of the virtual places you will visit when travelling this musical journey... On the other hand percussive (mainly metallic percussion) sounds sometimes almost recall African shores, like a warmer wind blowing through the snow and melting the snow... Clearly, it is a very visionary album. Industrial drones interwove with ritual field sounds, atmospheres of stillness and infinity are the playground for spacey and drifting experimentalisms that remind me of a bunch of releases from "Extreme Records" I once reviewed, which included Skuli Sverrison's all-bass "Seremonie" album and a Shinjuku Thief work. Almost 70 minutes of glacial and noble avant-garde sounds for the true lovers of envelope-pushing." - Marc Urselli-Schaerer ("Chain D.L.K.")
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| Order Number |
ELCD022
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| Recording Length |
68 mins
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| CD released |
2002
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| Artists contact details |
www.electroshock.ru
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| IndieCDs star rating | ***** |
| Track List | Broken Sleep in the Fracture Zone : The Other Side of the Inner World : Endless Voyage : In a Moment of Infinity : A Rite of Passage |
| State or country of origin | (Russia) |
| Keywords | Artemiev, Artemiy, award-winning, electroacoustic, experimental, Electroshock, CDs, ambient, soundscape, art-house, electronic music, Phillip B. Klingler, PBK, collaborations |
| usual maximum order quantity | 5 |