zentrum statisch, by left.bank

zentrum statisch

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	1.	reqnee 09:02
	2.	aaur 08:51
	3.	ion 15:43
	4.	sefar 06:49

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recorded in 2018
a KOI8-R production

""Duo from Geneva, Left Bank associates some principles and techniques of concrète and electroacoustic music with blazing and fascinating mastery / malice in a non-narrative and non-linear arrangement of sound objects, for a superb outcome of high frictional power."" (Sixto, Cave12)

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released June 23, 2019

mastered by Vincent Hänggi

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thanks to Kim Xupei; Cave12; emma3000; Vincent Hänggi; Christian Valleise; Null-A Datenträger.

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reviews:

Many things about Zentrum Statisch led me to believe it would be a work produced using pure data processing: the flat, minimal cover design, the seemingly random sequences of letters and numbers found throughout the album page, the bizarre URL for Left.Bank’s website ( lllbnk.x-xx---x.info )… But the unnamed artist’s “free-form computer-based improvisations” are not at all entirely detached from reality. Spastic, unpredictable, and kinetic, the four tracks do harness many a mangled glitch cluster or grating, error message-esque blast, yet organics play a significant role as well. “reqnee,” despite its disorienting, artificial first moments, soon introduces what sounds like a processed field recording of cricket-filled night air, squashed between the much less familiar curls of pulsating electronics. As the album progresses, it becomes even more difficult to distinguish between sound sources, and Left.Bank’s sonic repertoire approaches that fascinating dimension where heavily manipulated sounds begin to mimic the very reality from which the original material was yanked. Restless digital tendrils evoke watery slaps and squashes, buzzing electrical dins muffle distorted animal-like roars… it all just makes this wonderful album that much more immersive.
- noisenotmusic.com, 26 june 2019

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Le duo suisse Left.Bank dissout les matières, créant un espace mouvant dans lequel field recordings et manipulations s’intriquent de manière complexe, brouillant les notions de super réalité et fiction augmentée.

Zentrum Statisch développe une narration chaotique en mode quasi random, capable de prendre une dimension inédite à chaque nouvelle écoute, liée à l’accumulation de brisures et de cassures, de noise et de harsh, d’organique et d’électronique.

La confusion guide chaque seconde des quatre titres, nous envoyant en pleine face les multiples bouleversements d’un monde au bord du collapse, où brume radio-active et grésillements multiples bourdonnent sur des enceintes au bord de l’implosion, décollage pour un présent bruitiste parasité, perturbant et détraqué. Radical.
- silenceandsound.me

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(...) Left Bank does as a great job here, keeping it
all very vibrant and energetic; best is to play this loud and be overwhelmed. (FdW)
- vitalweekly.net

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multipurpose facility for realtime audio processing —
advanced time manipulation — free-form computer-based improvisations —
indivisible artefacts — opposite forms ___________
currently working on:
_ THE SPHERES THEMSELVES
_ OPERATION AND SENSE ... more

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