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MN 001CD
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2001 releases, in stock for the first time. "Velma B. Landovitch is a side project of the Swiss band Velma, already known for their excellent and special hypnotic post-pop-electronic music. For this record, most of the main 'themes' and songs are taken from their Cyclique album (Emperor Norton/Noise product) and reworked in a more 'abstract' way. It's in this atmosphere that Cyclique 2 takes place, a never seen and unique performance which combines electronic music with a visual aspect, built around a cyclical idea of course. This record is the soundtrack of this spectacle and can be described as minimal, hypnotic, rich, original and unique. Electronic loops, abstract drones, soft electro pulses making rhythms, frequencies, abstract rhythms, clicks, saturation cuts, whispers, sometimes enigmatic discreet far piano notes are being played.... this is a never heard before and unique work, a secret garden, a treasure of sound and structures."
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MN 003CD
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"Third and final release in the 'Music for spectacles' series by Velma B. Landovitch, the more ambient/abstract side project of the Lausanne, Switzerland band Velma. Final release, and surely the best. This release explores more rhythmic patterns built up with loops, digital and abstract sounds, computer manipulations, drones, cold and enigmatic atmospheres, computer saturations, frequencies, electronic reverberated ambiences, beautiful abrasive abstract computer landscapes, with sometimes a distant voice which comes into the electronic loops mixed with far abstract-computer cold atmospherics, while some discreet enigmatic guitar notes meet low abstract sound frequencies looped to create repetitive sounds landscapes. All these superposing themselves maybe in the way that Steve Reich does minimal music to create kinds of intense and dynamic movements. Definitely a very innovative and intelligent work, electronic-experimental music with a minimal/evolutive and clever approach, in always changing and evolving and keeping entertaining. A monument of original ideas and sounds put together in a brilliant way."
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MN 002CD
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"Another record for this Velma side project. Natal is the music which has been composed specially for Swiss choreographer Fabienne Berger's modern dance performance with visual/projections. Minimal electronic loops play while enigmatic and beautiful sound landscapes fly in the background, aquatic ambient sounds follow a linear structure, heavy ultra bass frequencies start pulsing to form complex rhythms, while different clicks and cuts give it a strange but captivating aspect. Long fragile tremolo drones and soundscapes tremble, creating something like beautiful northern and deep atmospheric landscapes. Then some abstract linear beats come in with repetitive sounds around static electronic drones, more sound computer manipulations.... This record really sounds like 'never heard' and unique, somewhere between electronic and minimal music, done in a very clever and brilliant way."
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