peter kris - mandan / moroni
Sounds giving stability and asking for nothing. This is the connective aspect of all Peter Kris compilations. Portugal's OTA label with a double cassette release exponentially exemplifying this. The basics of folk styled guitar beautifully warped and resounding far into the future. Tracks playing against each other, from contemplative guitar pieces to mesmerizing electronic static, mandan / moroni has limitless extremes. Amazingly this immense diversity is bound together by the seductive gentle style Peter Kris maintains throughout all twenty five tracks.
Experienced listeners have been long cultured in the world of innovative string melodies. Possibly to the point of blurring aural talent, the lengthy stretch of time between John Fahey and James Blackshaw is a good example. Peter Kris skirts the primitive guitar nexus with formidable patience that is slowly mined from dry desolate hills. And the sounds... bound in the geologic strata, gradually exposed era after era as an eon accumulates. mandan / moroni is like this, peacefulness linked by adjacent tracks, then subsequently an external event erodes the repose. A cloud of radiation drifts in, a superbolide leveling the earth below, glacial striations brought to audible presence. With thoughts of majestic attrition and the formation of strange new beauty, the music continues to play. The mind eventually turns inward, focusing on the spirit's construct. Youth and recklessness, age and wisdom, Peter Kris plays on the precipice of both, possibly with a gray hair or two.
This composition was released in the beginning of August and is already sold out. The double cassette offering adhered to and enclosed in black sandpaper. The correlation between packaging and sounds must be the fine finish both will leave. Another superb release by both artist and label. Available digitally on the OTA bandcamp page for the incredibly kind offering of "name your price".
Links
OTA - bandcamp - facebook
German Army site
Experienced listeners have been long cultured in the world of innovative string melodies. Possibly to the point of blurring aural talent, the lengthy stretch of time between John Fahey and James Blackshaw is a good example. Peter Kris skirts the primitive guitar nexus with formidable patience that is slowly mined from dry desolate hills. And the sounds... bound in the geologic strata, gradually exposed era after era as an eon accumulates. mandan / moroni is like this, peacefulness linked by adjacent tracks, then subsequently an external event erodes the repose. A cloud of radiation drifts in, a superbolide leveling the earth below, glacial striations brought to audible presence. With thoughts of majestic attrition and the formation of strange new beauty, the music continues to play. The mind eventually turns inward, focusing on the spirit's construct. Youth and recklessness, age and wisdom, Peter Kris plays on the precipice of both, possibly with a gray hair or two.
This composition was released in the beginning of August and is already sold out. The double cassette offering adhered to and enclosed in black sandpaper. The correlation between packaging and sounds must be the fine finish both will leave. Another superb release by both artist and label. Available digitally on the OTA bandcamp page for the incredibly kind offering of "name your price".
OTA - bandcamp - facebook
German Army site
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