Nordic choral music : Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark
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The strad
d. 2. Jan. 2021
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David Kettle
d. 2. Jan. 2021
"An ensemble of 50 violinists, accompanied by 50 adjacent one-bit, on-off microchips emitting raw, primitive electronic tones through miniature loudspeakers, the 100-strong group works through slowly evolving musical patterns conceived by New York-based composer and visual/sonic artist Tristan Perich. If that makes Drift Multiply sound arid and forbidding, that couldn't be further from the truth ... Drift Multiply is an exceptionally beautiful sonic experience, inevitably quite mesmerising in its shifting repetitions, but full of humour and surprises, too ... Drift Multiply gets a brisk, precise performance from violinists drawn from three Dutch institutions, with focused direction from Douglas Perkins. This is a seductive, captivating disc of deeply rewarding music, brilliantly captured in warm, focused sound".
Uncut
2021 January
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Wyndham Wallace
2021 January
"Fans of Steve Reich (...) will revel in [Perich's] latest, as will those who've tired of "New Classical"'s limited palette. Massed violins at times recall a frantic take on Arvo Pärt's tintinnabuli, at others the sedate beauty of Samuel Barber's Adagio For Strings, while Brian Eno's Discreet Music is echoed, too, in these shifting soundscapes, especially "Section 2". A handmade circuit board driving 1-bit chips adds additional textures, notably on the kaleidoscopic "Section 5", which fades into a mist of white noise".