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Mira Calix
Skimskitta
Warp
On her latest, Mira Calix aka Chantal Passamonte has
once again branched way off from her roots and continued
work as a DJ and let her days of working at Warp have
a massive effect on her music. What may first be considered
to be another artists venturing into the massive world
of Max/MSP software, well it shouldn't be seeing that
Passamonte doesn't work a great deal with software despite
the leftfield sound of her music. Skimskitta is
a 61 minute album where each track flows seamlessly
into one another that provides a new
experience with each listen. Her work relies heavily
on odd sampled snippits of naturally acoustic sounds
like her stone collection she's been picking up during
her DJ travels as well as odd percussion, drum machines,
sticks snapping etc. with piano, strings, guitar and
sometimes nothing carrying a melody over the sequenced
sounds. The warm yet desolate effect of the compositions
takes on a very gentle introspective tone despite sometimes
sounding not so gentle at first listen. Mira Calix has
taken much of background noise from our day-to-day lives
and re-constructed it emotionally charged work. –Justin
Hardison
Tracklisting:
- again, it starts
- poussou
- woody
- savanna
- the wolf, the sheep & the door
- flicker
- do I ever?
- sixnot6
- clement
- I may be over there (but my heart is over here)
- distracted2
- isibuko
- paarl
- like spoons
- shadenfreude
- hiccup
- suffix
- simple (almost mix)
- you open always
- little long gone
- two seasons
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