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01. Michel Banabila - October
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02. Michel Banabila - Des Traces Retrouvées I No. #4
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03. Michel Banabila - Piano No. #2
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04. Michel Banabila - The Lost Drones Tape No. #3
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05. Michel Banabila - A Sharp Silver Line
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06. Michel Banabila - The Workers
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07. Michel Banabila - Harmonium Improv #2
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08. Michel Banabila - Piano No. #1
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09. Michel Banabila - The Call
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10. Michel Banabila - Harmonium improv #1
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11. Michel Banabila - The Lost Drones Tape No. #2
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ARTIST
BANABILA, MICHEL
TITLE
Early Works: Things Popping Up from the Past
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
BUREAU B
CATALOG #
BB 227LP
BB 227LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
6/10/2016
LP version. Numerous threads run through the music of sound artist, composer, and producer
Michel Banabila
(born 1961), whose contemporary work ranges from adventurous electronic cross-breeding of chamber instrumentation through industrial rhythmic sampling and outwardbound modular synthesis to deeply elegiac drones. This set collects the Dutch artist's instrumental 1980s work -- beautiful minimal loop-based electronica, classical-influenced pieces, and ambient drone music -- documenting his early years with material originally released as cassettes, vinyl EPs, and limited CDs. Banabila's piano echoes with a disarming simplicity, its atmospheric gestures bringing to mind the proto-minimalism of
Erik Satie
. The melody could easily be an additional hundred years old -- except for the fact that the refined patterning is something that likely only could have been pursued in light of the music of
Michael Nyman
and
Philip Glass
. The equipment on which this music was made, notably an early sampler, was limited in various ways, key among them the relatively circumspect set of capabilities, especially in terms of memory storage, and the lack of received performance techniques. The equipment was simple and it was new, and neither factor limited Banabila's ambition; on the contrary, the tools concentrated his imagination. If the classical pieces represent the Old World as framed by the new, then the more recognizably "electronic" work here is likewise most at home in a fictional place, an idealized zone. That zone is a quiet neighborhood in the Fourth World, to borrow
Jon Hassell
's terminology, one in which digital tools render something that is, for all its technological dependency, ultimately a form of folk music -- an otherworldly folk music for another time. Fidgety percussion plays amid a fierce but restrained guitar line (there are echoes of
Laurie Anderson
and
Adrian Belew
). An ambiguous and elongated drone, thick with subliminal activity, beautiful in its toxic anxiety, suggests dire activity on the horizon. And yet the horizon wasn't dire. Quite the contrary; what was ahead for Banabila was a long string of releases, a healthy and well-documented career in which so many of these individual threads have been provided time and space to have entire records dedicated to their pursuit. This album of archival works documents the continuity inherent in Banabila's music. It is a map in musical form, tracing a path that crisscrosses back and forth between the Old World and the Next.
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