_:_ D E F _:_ __ | | __ __\/_____|_ _______ _|_____\/__ __.._\_\/ | ____\ \_ | \/_/_..__ \_|| \/ | ______/ /________: \/ ||_/ +-----' :___\__ \___ / /_\ | `-----+ | ...... | / / / / _____| ...... | | : ...:...... | / / ______/ ___/ .....:... : | | :.::.: : | / /__/ | | : :.::.: | | . :: ......:...|___________/ |______|.........:..... :: . | | :: :: : /_____________| : : :: | | : :::::::::: ------------------------------------ ::::::::: : | | . | :: : | . | | | :: Carlos Giffoni - Vain : | | | . | :: : | . | | | ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: | | | | ..::.. | | | |__ ___ __ ___ ___ _____ ___________________| |__. | _\_ \_ _\ \_/ / _\ \__\_ \__\ _/__\ \_ | | | |_/ __ /__/ / / /__/ / / /\__ / / / - I N F O - | | | |\ \ \ __/ / ___/ / / / / ___/ | | | | \___\____\____\__/\____\/_____/______/____\_________________| |__| | | | | | | artist: Carlos Giffoni | | | | album: Vain | | | | label: iDEAL Recordings | | | | cat num: IDEAL 170 | | | | genre: Electronic | | | | year: 2018 | | | | website: N/A | | | | | | | | rls date: 02.2019 | | | | source: Vinyl | | | | quality: VBRkbps / Joint Stereo | | | | tracks: 09 | | | | length: 41:41 | | | | size: 72,86 MB | | | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------ | | | |__ ___ ___ ___ __ __________________________| |__. |___/ /___\_ \_ _\_ \__/ _/ / /__ _\ __/_ | | | |\_ __/ _ /_/ / / / // /_\__ / - T R A C K S - | | | | / / / / / / /__/ _ / / / | | | | \__/___/____/_____/\____/__/___/_____/______________________| |__| | | | | | | A1 Vain's Face 02:56 | | | | A2 The Desert 05:06 | | | | A3 Erase The World 05:13 | | | | A4 Hands 02:37 | | | | A5 We Pay The Price 04:41 | | | | B1 Stop Breathing 05:31 | | | | B2 Faith and Pain 05:31 | | | | B3 I Can Change 04:57 | | | | B4 Sun Rain 05:09 | | | | | | | | > total playtime: 41:41 | | | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------ | | | _|________ ___ ___ __________________________| |__. | \__ _ \_________/ /___\ \__\ __/__ | | | | / / / /_ __/ / /\___ / - N O T E S - | | | | /___/ / / / / / / ____/ / / | | | | | /___/______/ \__/ \___/ \______/____________________| |__| | | | | | | The prodigal return of Venezuelan artist Carlos | | | | Giffoni to the avant-electronic music scene he was | | | | instrumental in shaping with the seminal, | | | | hybridising No Fun Fest and No Fun Productions | | | | label, which was home to debut releases by Oneohtrix | | | | Point Never, and classics from Haswell and Prurient | | | | during the late "00s to early part of this decade. | | | | If yr into 0PN or Keith Fullerton Whitman, this | | | | album f u c k i n g r u l e s | | | | | | | | Carlos' first new release in 6 years, Vain was drawn | | | | from hundreds of hours of improvisations made at his | | | | Malibu studio, offering a tumultuous narrative in | | | | affective abstract swells and pulsating rhythms that | | | | trigger curious sensations and emotions ever | | | | familiar to his variegated, extreme, yet essentially | | | | organic output. | | | | | | | | Despite not releasing anything for the past 6 years, | | | | Carlos still sounds like he lives and breathes | | | | electronic music. Where those "noise" artists who | | | | originally played at No Fun Fest and released on his | | | | label have arguably carved out major career paths | | | | from myriad mutated genres, Carlos' music still | | | | feels captivatingly ancient yet advanced and | | | | uncannily hypnotic. | | | | | | | | In a cascade of minimalist arps and cloud dynamic | | | | harmonies, the album's story starts in the vortex of | | | | Vain's Face and sweeps thru the granular flux of The | | | | Desert to a staggering piece of noise techno | | | | dissonance in Erase The World, which calves away | | | | into the curled plunge of Hands and the anxious | | | | needling of We Pay The Price. At the mid-way point | | | | it turns lusher with the pulsing and coruscating | | | | kosmische tang of Stop Breathing, leading to the | | | | metric complexities woven into Faith and Pain and | | | | the heightened high-register sensitivities of I Can | | | | Change, whose shatterproof hyaline steeples | | | | ultimately deliquesce into the shimmering beauty of | | | | Sun Rain. | | | | | | | | With hazy resolution and ambiguity of effect, the | | | | record works its magick in memorable style. Like the | | | | best abstract sonics of Peter Rehberg or Keith | | | | Fullerton Whitman, an intuitively applied formula of | | | | geometry, rhythm, tone and timbre add up to | | | | inexorable effect, rendering the closest possible | | | | connection between the machines and the artist's | | | | pathos. | | | | | | | | For syntesthetes and attuned listeners, the effect | | | | is likely to conceive new colours on the mind's eye, | | | | and move them to finer states of emotive response. | | | | In others words: it's a seriously good listen. | | | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------ | | | _|_______ _________ ______________________________| |__. | \_ _ \_\_ \_ \ ______\ ___/__ | | | | / / / / / /_/ /\___ / - N E W S - | | | | /___/ / ____/ / / / / / | | | | | /___/____/ \___/____/_________/________________________| |__| | | | | | | hi2u! go to the show, buy the records, stop whining | | | _|______ ____ ___ __________ ________________________| |__. | \_ ___/__\__ \__\_ \__\_ \_ _/__\ _/__ | | | | / \_ / _ /_ / / / / /\____ / - H E L L O - | | | | \___ / / / __/ ___/ / / / | | | | | /__/__/____/__/ \__/ /__/__________/___________________| |__| | | | | | | 13 1way aeroholics agw bass bcc berc bnp boss ct cmc | | | | d2h ddb diss divinestylers dl dps ethnic fmr fnt fwyh | | | | hit2000 hm hqem hta hushhush i8 impg jazzman kinky kw | | | | maem mbs njs noir nuc nuhs radial sb sever shelter | | | | pyt siberia soup sour sq tr trt usr | | | | | | | | ... thank you for the music and/or the good fun! | | | |_________________________________________________________| |_. | | nfo & design by #MONk!# of diViNE sTYLERS! | | | | _ |---------------------------------------------------------| _ |-' |/ \| |/ \|