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The Slider In Advance
Folklabor
Release
date: 1-3-08
Label: Angelika Koehlermann
Springtime, warmth, sunrays clearing the morning mist in an Austrian forest. It´s pictures like these that came to my mind when listening to the first takes of this album.
Philipp Mold, a young software programmer and soundfreak (former "Cirque de Delay") plays all instruments and sings along with classically trained vocalist Maria Augustin, who also plays an airy and sometimes improvised flute.
Listening closer, I realised many hidden treasures! At the first look, this album seemed to be a sunny and friendly, very accoustic-guitar drenched piece of quiet music, but hearing the songs again and again, I found some very unusual elements and electronic structures in a so called "Folk" record. Some beats sneak in now and then, bleeps from ancient synthesizers swirl through space, a vocoder takes over the lead vocals from time to time and: the songs build up in a way a techno track usually does! It´s not the familiar verse/chorus-scheme, no, choruses are repeated over long parts, tiny verses appear and fade away again, sounds start changing, growing and pulsating into outer fields of dub, polyrhythms, improv and even r´n´b!
Leaning back again, I noticed that I haven´t heard music like that before. This record definitely takes the genre "Folkmusic" to another dimension. Word!
The final polishing comes from the pure analouge sound aesthetics - I could physically feel the warm breath of the music creeping out of my speakers, clouding the room with sweet smelling and mind blowing essences... addictive, but not dangerous to your health!
jenny weber, oslo
