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[EleganzUndDekadenz]

 

Labradford members Mark Nelson and Robert Donne have teamed up with Steven Hess for an album due out in September.

 

Chicago experimental institution Kranky has revealed details of a three-headed collaboration, Anjou, whose self-titled album is scheduled for a September release.

Anjou brings together Mark Nelson, Robert Donne and Steven Hess, all of whom should be familiar to Kranky fans as longtime affiliates of the label. Nelson and Donne were two thirds of the ambient and post-rock oufit Labradford, active through much of the '90s and into the very early '00s; Nelson later went on to start Pan American, which Hess, a prolific percussionist, has been heavily involved in.

The album will be the first time Nelson and Donne (who appear to be leading the project) have collaborated since the last Labradford LP Fixed::Context back in 2001, though this one has been in the works for a while. Kranky describes Anjou as "the product of 20-plus years of friendship" and "the culmination of four years' writing and editing," and promises an ambitious blend of "modular synthesis, Max/MSP programming and live instrumentation" across its eight tracks. It'll be made available in vinyl and CD formats. You can stream "Sighting" in full over at FACT.

Tracklist
01. Lamptest
02. Sighting
03. Specimen Question
04. Readings
05. Inclosed
06. Adjustment
07. Backsight
08. Fieldwork

 

 

 

 

 

kranky + nelson e donne = uscita da segnalare

anche se si trova gia da qualche giorno ormai

 

bellissima la copertina

[Giubbo]

 

 

Labradford members Mark Nelson and Robert Donne have teamed up with Steven Hess for an album due out in September.

 

Chicago experimental institution Kranky has revealed details of a three-headed collaboration, Anjou, whose self-titled album is scheduled for a September release.

Anjou brings together Mark Nelson, Robert Donne and Steven Hess, all of whom should be familiar to Kranky fans as longtime affiliates of the label. Nelson and Donne were two thirds of the ambient and post-rock oufit Labradford, active through much of the '90s and into the very early '00s; Nelson later went on to start Pan American, which Hess, a prolific percussionist, has been heavily involved in.

The album will be the first time Nelson and Donne (who appear to be leading the project) have collaborated since the last Labradford LP Fixed::Context back in 2001, though this one has been in the works for a while. Kranky describes Anjou as "the product of 20-plus years of friendship" and "the culmination of four years' writing and editing," and promises an ambitious blend of "modular synthesis, Max/MSP programming and live instrumentation" across its eight tracks. It'll be made available in vinyl and CD formats. You can stream "Sighting" in full over at FACT.

Tracklist
01. Lamptest
02. Sighting
03. Specimen Question
04. Readings
05. Inclosed
06. Adjustment
07. Backsight
08. Fieldwork

 

 

 

 

 

nelson e donne = uscita da segnalare

 

 

quando ho letto il tuo commento ho pensato che Nelson fosse uscito dal suo periodo isolazionista per darsi alle mignotte!

[EleganzUndDekadenz]

 

quando ho letto il tuo commento ho pensato che Nelson fosse uscito dal suo periodo isolazionista per darsi alle mignotte!

 

 

 

[Giubbo]

che ve ne pare?

 

a me sembra che abbiano scelto i 2 brani sbagliati per lanciare l'album, nel senso che mi pare siano abbastanza statici e succeda ben poco.

 

gli altri brani mi sembrano più """movimentati""", e ce n'è uno addirittura in odore Labradford quando facevano i badalamentiani (i miei Labradford preferiti).

[EleganzUndDekadenz]

che ve ne pare?

 

a me sembra che abbiano scelto i 2 brani sbagliati per lanciare l'album, nel senso che mi pare siano abbastanza statici e succeda ben poco.

 

gli altri brani mi sembrano più """movimentati""", e ce n'è uno addirittura in odore Labradford quando facevano i badalamentiani (i miei Labradford preferiti).

 

 

io personalmente non lo sento omogeneo nè per qualità nè per "continuità"

 

ma non è da buttare comunque, perchè ha i suoi bei momenti

specialmente verso il finale, ma mi sa di occasione sprecata..

anche se un po me lo aspettavo a dire la verita