[Deaf Center|Pale Ravine]穿越蒼谷，見到了傳説中的聖湖

Artist：Deaf Center
Album：Pale Ravine
Release Date：2005-11-07
Label：Type Records
Country：UK
Genre： Electronic
Style： Modern Classical, Ambient

Tracklisting:

1		Lobby (3:01)
2		Thread (3:39)
3		White Lake (6:35)
4		Path To Lucy (4:54)
5		Stone Beacon (3:29)
6		Weir (6:34)
7		Loft (4:15)
8		Thunder Night (4:28)
9		Lamp Mien (3:58)
10		The Clearing (4:13)
11		Fog Animal (4:24)
12		Eloy (2:15)

簡介。。。。。。

With the astounding quality of releases that have appeared on Type recently, it would be easy to become blasé over their output. Deaf Center shake you from any such complacency - delivering here a record that will be extremely hard to beat as album of the year for 2005. Apparently inspired by "old silent 8mm film reels and historical architecture", the Norwegian duo of Erik Skodvin and Otto Totland have produced a lambent debut that recalls the likes of William Basinski (particularly the 'Disintegration Loops' indebted 'Lobby'), Marsen Jules and Harold Budd. Over layers of warmly battered aural sediment, Deaf Center build the kind of vista-expanding, piano tinged music that has you thinking you're in your very own film. Manifesting itself in the stravaig and epic iciness of 'Thread', or the etiolated Nyman piano of 'White Lake', Deaf Center have a seemingly bottomless supply of aural dignity and pathos on which to draw. Other highlights include the tense strings and snatched choirs of 'Stone Beacon', the thrumming piano of 'Loft' and the soaring orchestral pomp of 'Thunder Night'. Just incredible music.

Deaf Center are two Norwegian friends Erik Skodvin and Otto Totland. Old school friends, they finally decided to write music together and ended up creating the phenomenal 'Neon City' EP.They have received rave reviews in De:Bug and online electronic magazines.

我的碎碎唸。。。。。。評價指數：8.0/10

如同這張專輯的名字Pale Ravine一樣，音樂呈現著廣博又蒼涼的氛圍，Deaf Center努力營造著莊嚴凝重亙古不變的歷史感以及充滿雄偉氣質的古典厚重感，收集著幾乎所有華美的聲音，精致細膩，令人感覺自己仿佛真的行走在千年的蒼幽峽谷中，獨自地尋找著被人們遺忘的傳説一般，深邃神秘。

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[Sanso Xtro|Sentimentalist]第一片還是最後一片葉子

Artist：Sanso Xtro
Album：Sentimentalist
Release Date：2005-05-16
Label：Type Records
Country：UK
Genre： Electronic
Style： Experimental

Tracklisting:

1		The Last Leaf (4:40)
2		Zlumber...Talkinmysleep (2:27)
3		Unsentimental (2:33)
4		And Then Return To Zero (2:27)
5		Plant Skeletons (2:38)
6		Blue Signal (3:23)
7		Frangipani Gardens (2:42)
8		Misplaced Feather (3:33)
9		Spark (1:42)
10		Minus_Ecki (2:32)
11		Like White Fire (2:59)

簡介。。。。。。

Adelaide, Australian born London resident Melissa Agate aka Sanso-Xtro. The contents of her debut Album 'sentimentalist' released on Type Records in May 2006 revealed a perfect mixture of acoustic instruments and fragile digital manipulations.

Having been a member of a number of succesful bands playing drums and guitar she is no stranger to the music scene, but this music is probably her most personal work.

She regards herself as primarily a drummer, but can play a variety of instruments very adeptly.

http://www.sanso-xtro.com

我的碎碎唸。。。。。。評價指數：8.3/10

第一次見到Sanso Xtro的照片,我就被這個女孩子所吸引，於是開始找來她的唱片聼。現在，我對自己的眼力更加自信了，哈哈。原聲音色的樂器+模擬合成器+Laptop（膝上型電腦）+其他的小樂器，很棒的一張實驗性的專輯，不過更北歐的實驗音樂的感覺還不太一樣。北歐的更具備民族的清冷與寧靜，像kuupuu、Islaja、lau nau她們。而Sanso Xtro似乎更城市化一些，更現代主義一些。說不好，但我都很喜歡。

Sanso-Xtro真名是Melissa Agate，來自澳洲的女生，目前居住在英國倫敦，這是她第一張正式發行的作品，之前曾經在一支先鋒樂隊當鼓手，但她的能力遠不止于此，她能夠駕馭很多的樂器，如原聲樂器中：吉它、夏威夷的四弦琴（ukulele）、克林巴琴（kalimba， 非洲班圖人的樂器）；更爲重要的是她還對模擬合成器以及便鞋擕電腦創作創作也深爲精通。她的風格影響也來自多個方面：先鋒爵士樂、佈魯斯、實驗電子音樂。

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