Browse by Artist: KANGDING RAY

Artist:	KANGDING RAY
Title:	Stabil
Label:	RASTER-NOTON (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	R-N 073CD

Originally released in 2006. Kangding Ray aka David Letellier arrived at the Raster-Noton artist collective with his first album, Stabil. Born in France and based in Berlin, Letellier evolved as a guitarist and drummer in various bands whose influences ranged from rock and pop to jazz before moving into electronic music. Stabil is a reflection of Letellier's background as it integrates guitar loops, bass lines, residual noise, acoustic instruments and digital anomalies to create a textured soundscape. Kangding Ray's debut makes its mark as an interesting attempt to find a balance between the flow of melodies and the ever-changing structure of rhythm.

Artist:	KANGDING RAY
Title:	Automne Fold
Label:	RASTER-NOTON (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	R-N 094CD

Following his highly successful debut Stabil, Kangding Ray (David Letellier) releases his second full-length record on Raster-Noton, entitled Automne Fold. With this release, Letellier has evolved from the quiet, pristine flow of his debut record to sounds that are raw, dark and organic. Pulsating rhythms become lost within walls of saturated strings, words are spoken over bowed acoustic guitars, and analog synths collide with urban field recordings. Vocals are a central theme throughout the record. Treated as raw material, like any other sound, the voice operates as beat, speaks melodies or sets themes. In some moments, Automne Fold retains the emotional simplicity of traditional song structures, where message and image come together, but also manages radical abstract textures, when tracks morph in closed forms of static sounds. Automne Fold is an instrumental record, an album of 14 "folded" tracks, and a cinematic journey between the senses and the groove.

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