Reviews

Annother fantastic album by Per more 'earthy' than 'Oooh'
paricularly a song likes me very much: 'Mistwood' it has by me the harmonic taste of a very fine and simple costructions with a diabolic solo on fretless guitar. This album is a full immersion in sounds, harmonics, melodies, things, tubes, smells, parfums, tastes, goodies, little things that spreds our mind....the whole world seems different after having listen to it!

After the splendid "Oooh", another great job. The same basic elements and technique, with more freedom in expressivity and solos, for an high quality final result, with a little lack of intensity only in Commuter train experience...(but it's only my taste).
An important instrumental voice, here on Jamendo

I pretty much liked your disc "Ooooh", and I decided to explore the rest of your work. While this disc shows the same looping approach than the first one, it turns out not as successful for me. The textures are more "electronic/techno" and less organic and they don't work too much for me unfortunately. Besides several exceptions (like the Mike Oldfield-like guitar of "Mistwood" for example or the fragile beauty of "The Screening Generation"), the songs don't grow on me, even though they keep the bravery and risky approach.

Also, in my honest opinion you have lost here some special quality that made "Oooh" so beautiful to me, the fact that music was constructed from the addition of some simple, "non-ego" parts (if you know what I mean) that were merged seamlessly without no instrument or phrase standing "out" of the rest. Here, it seems to me that some instruments (specially guitar in some parts of many songs) want to "impress" with a quick phrase, thus loosing all the added stasis or climax. "Transit Area Wonders" is maybe the best example. It has some building up parts with flute that start growing in beauty, when suddenly they are disrupted by some electronic-like screams on sax(?) or guitar(?) that cuts all development.

I find lot of good music here, and I am sure people with a more techno/electronic background would appreciate this disc better, but for me is not nearly as beautiful or appealing as "Ooooh". Anyway a very interesting work. Looking forward your third.

... sind die Klänge, Geräusche, Beats dieses Künstlers - und aus dieser Klangumgebung winden sich Improvisationen und Melodien aus den unterschiedlichsten akkustischen und elektronischen Instrumenten.

Seine Technik, live und in Echtzeit Loops einzuspielen, die sich aufeinander beziehen, sich ergänzen, metamorphisieren und ständig Neues schaffen, beherrscht der Künstler aufs trefflichste. Dabei kommen neben Looping-Equippment auch "klassische" Instrumente, wie Flöte, Saxophon und Gitarre zum Einsatz - und natürlich (auch beblasbare) Syntheseizer.

Der etwas freie, jazzige, experimentelle, ja zuweilen gar bizarr anmutende Touch verleiht dem Werk etwas faszinierendes, fantastisches, fast schon unwiederbringliches aber auch sehr gefühlvolles.

Keine leichte Kost, jedoch ein aufregendes, ereignisreiches Hörerlebnis.