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David Sylvian’s label (Samadhisound) will release its third record this summer. The CD is entitled Spellewauerynsherde (ss0003) by Akira Rabelais. The disc will be packaged in a beautiful digipak, with artwork by Chris Bigg and photography by Lia Nalbantidou.
Spellewauerynsherde: Spell. Wavering. Shard. Spell as in speaking, incantation, a digitally constructed matrix of words and voices, summoning up a strange, distant past. Wavering: the shivering of those voices as they dissolve and recombine in Rabelais’ rich filtering systems, turning into pulsating, frequency rich drones. Shard: fragments, of voices, of ideas, of memories, of the past, brought back to life again.
Spellewauerynsherde is built up from found sounds, field recordings of traditional Icelandic accapella lament songs recorded in the late 1960s or early 1970s on Ampex tapes and then forgotten about. After discovering the neglected tapes, cleaning them up and digitizing them for a library, Rabelais became fascinated with the heartbreaking sadness of the voices and began to think of them as source material for a series of compositions.
Akira Rabelais is an LA based composer. Akira Rabelais Website.
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“a haunting spiritual disk that sounds at once medieval, especially framed by Rabelais’ beautiful texts, while at the same time, on the cutting edge of electronic music” (Marcus Boon)
Spellewaureynsherde will be available via www.samadhisound.com and then through selected retail outlets.
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David Sylvian :: Manafon (Samadhisound)
Harold Budd :: Avalon Sutra / As Long As I Can Hold My Breath (Samadhisound, 2CD)
David Sylvian :: The Good Son vs. The Only Daughter (The Blemish Remixes) (Samadhisound, CD)
Jan Bang :: …And Poppies from Kandahar (Samadhisound)
David Sylvian & Stephan Mathieu :: Wandermüde (Samadhisound)
