[Es|A Love Cycle]轉經、輪回、盼望

Artist：Es
Album：A Love Cycle
Release Date：2006
Label：Fonal Records
Country：Finland
Genre： Electronic
Style： Leftfield, Experimental, Ambient

Tracklisting:

1		Suuri Höyhen (7:07)
2		A Love Cycle (12:06)
3		Les Fleurs Sont Des Bonnes Auditrices (4:29)
		Vocals [Humming] - Elissa Määttänen
4		We Make Holes In The Heart To Break Universe Apart (13:19)
5		Twenty-Five Twenty-Five (3:03)
6		She Puts Out The Fire In Her Heart With Her Tears (11:54)

簡介。。。。。。

Sami Sänpäkkilä, owner and curator of the phenomenal Fonal label, has managed to attract a great deal of interest in his work over the last couple of years. Peaking with the frankly unmissable vinyl-only ‘Sateenkaarisuudelma’ album on Kraak, the Finnish musician drew people into his world of crackling vinyl, distant piano and half-sung Finnish nursery rhymes. ‘A Love Cycle’ was originally released in 2001 and is the second Es album, but to beef up this re-issue a little Sänpäkkilä has added an extra track, the gorgeous ‘Suuri Hoyhen’ which appeared on a Kraak compilation/sampler also in 2001. It’s been out of press for far too long now, and since interest had grown in Sänpäkkilä’s works significantly recently, it seems like the perfect time to fashion a reissue! Surprisingly given the dubious longevity of experimental/electronic music the disc still sounds as fresh as ever; the album was put together almost entirely using three cheap flea-market turntables and a pile of decaying vinyl, so Philip Jeck and Christian Marclay are obviously going to come in handy as reference points, but Sänpäkkilä injects his own personality into the noisy loops and crackle. His homespun aesthetic is as present here as on his choice of releases for Fonal, beautiful ethereal humming erupts over bassy rumbles and disconcerting static while distortion cracks and crumbles overhead. I suppose many would describe Es as ‘ambient’ music, but there is more going on here than may at first reveal itself, the layers need peeling away slowly on repeated listens before you achieve maximum enjoyment. Within these loops rest hidden glimpses of love, love for music, for art, for the process itself, and that’s what makes Sami Sänpäkkilä’s work just so damn involving. A huge recommendation and an essential part of the Fonal catalogue.

我的碎碎唸。。。。。。評價指數：8.2/10

重復，不斷地重復。輪回，永恒地輪回。A Love Cycle就在這樣的重復中進行，但是我對它卻比對Flick更加喜愛。它是一個循環、一個周而復始的生命。尤其是Les Fleurs Sont Des Bonnes Auditrices深邃的鋼琴和Elissa Määttänen的輕輕哼唱交織的時候，我仿佛觸摸到了歷史與希望。這個女子的聲音純淨、自然，曾多次在Es的唱片中出現，還有就是我很喜歡其中那感覺非常Lo-fi的老式錄音帶的沙沙聲。五年前的Fonal曾發行過這張唱片，06年的這張是再版，區別就是多了一個bonus track，也就是第一曲Suuri Höyhen。

去豆瓣上看看。。。。。。
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