Music is used as an emotional language whose intention is to communicate the perception of time, loss and memory on a dreamlike-powerfully evocative level. In this last opus the music of Me Raabenstein approaches in a very meaningful way the musical quality of remembrance.
Founder of the label nonine recordings (whose musical direction is stylistically linked to modern kinetic abstract ambient music, with an impressive catalogue which stresses a pluralistic view on electronic music) the German Me Raabenstein is back with a series of new compositions.
The sound identity of Swimmin’ with friends again favors a peculiar dynamic / articulation between mnemonic collage-like structures (taken from various acoustic instruments, possibly sample textures), usual sculptured electronic motifs, dubstepping almost funkadelic grooves, phonetic poetry’s in French and vaporous spacey atmospheres. A dense and highly diversified musical orchestration, adventurous and deliberately post-modern experiments. This collection of tracks largely consists of remixes released by Me Raabenstein, initially based on the work of a friendly musician community (with David Minor, Andreas Koslik, Chatschatur Kanajan, Helmut Neugebauer, Pepijn Cauldron, David Delsar and Lana Braun). The conceptual background seems to invite the listener to evocate memories taken from his personal lived experience or related to particular historical contexts, Utopian and mysteriously hidden human realities. Music is used as an emotional language whose intention is to communicate the perception of time, loss and memory on a dreamlike-powerfully evocative level. In this last opus the music of Me Raabenstein approaches in a very meaningful way the musical quality of remembrance. Computerized rhetoric between elaborated electronic micro-scenes. An intriguing and hypnotically musical syncretism.
Swimmin’ with friends again is available on nonine. [Release page]
