Reviews of Solo Andata [12k1056]

Ce second effort va plus loin dans l’exploration abstraite et glacial sans oublier que la beauté musicale est également primordiale.

Alors bien évidemment une telle force d’imagination poussera l’auditeur à revenir en ces terres plus d’une fois, redécouvrant chaque fois un peu plus les subtilités cachées ici et là avec une réelle passion pour des architectures sonores impressionnantes.

it goes beyond the expected domain of textural and analytical microsound-type composition.

The result is a wonderfully dark, post-rock tinged trip that shows the 12k label is at the cusp of more than just laptop programming and art installation sounds.

Ik kan met gemak zeggen dat dit een van de beste albums is die dit jaar in zijn genre uitgegeven zijn.

Une musique primitive, donc, tribale, meme, au service de paysages dessinés de fco pointilliste, ou les teintes sombres, omniprésentes, sous la forme de drones, mais aussi d’ossements machés, de vents nocturnes, n’occupent jamais tout le spectre, car la-haut, dans la canopée, le soleil commence a percer, n’attendant que son heure pour frapper le sol.

All in all it’s everything I love about contemporary “ambient” music. It has soul, and a perfect balance of emotional chromatic content and slight abstraction. Magical music and a work of beauty and harmony

The restraint and delicate touch within this production stops time, thought, and all of the pain.

Ogni brano richiama una commistione stereofonica come eco della memoria.

Una scelta questa che accompagna tutta la durata del disco, che lascia coesistere simultaneamente natura (fiele recordings che catturano risonanze di ghiaccio, acqua o vento) ed artificio (quello creato dallo strumento, pochi per la verità qualche tratto di chitarra acustica, pianoforte, violoncello).

Without fail, Solo Andata achieves on this record what any great ambient album should: the ability to be completely incandescent. And even as it freely self-sustains a glow and warmth, it is also manages to be, in an ever so understated fashion, devastatingly cinematic.

Sound design is frankly stunning and there are some wonderfully dislocatory elements that work in the background in a seemingly huge stereo field.

Compatriote du très estimable Lawrence English, le duo Solo Andata trace un aller simple entre les opposés de notre monde sur son second effort.

“Ablation” ultimately registers as a veritable master class in sound design and arrangement, with Solo Andata weaving its carefully-selected sounds into an eleven-minute mood piece of strikingly evocative character.

I can see the two members of Solo Andata, Paul Fiocco and Kane Ikin, humming in a tunnel, picking up the resonances of the voices and placing this back into the music they create at home.

For the 10 minutes of “Woods Flesh Bone,” the Australian ambient duo known as Solo Andata recorded a stroll through a forest where ominous guitar drones and queasy, gurgling liquid noises cut through the wilderness.

Wat ons betreft, behoort Solo Andata tot het beste werk uit de hele 12k-catalogus.

12k je již známý ambientní label, ale za celou dobu jeho existence zde zřejmě nevyšla nahrávka s tak zemitě kytarovým zvukem…

It’s almost like being in Boards of Canada territory here if you could imagine them without any beats.

Shamans for the 21st century: The beginning of a spiritual journey.