Krill.minima - Urlaub auf balkonien //Netlabel-release, zie link hieronder.
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Martin Juhls cites the cream of the crop of the academical and independent experimental scene as influences for his anything-but-ordinary ambient project krill.minima, but most of them have probably been godfathers merely in motivational and technical terms rather than being a blueprint: More emotional than Stockhausen, too mellow and dreamy for Sonic Youth, not deconstructive and dadaesque enough to bear any similarities to either Einstürzende Neubauten or their figurehead Blixa Bargeld, krill.minima is simply too personal and idiosyncratic to be a pastiche. And yet it is obvious that Juhls aspires to much more than just following in the footsteps of Pole and the clicks n cuts scene. One of the names dropped in relation to him has been Erik Satie, which suddenly makes a lot of sense when spinning the first track of his current full-length „Urlaub auf Balkonien“: „Sommerdellen“. While atmospherics made up of ever-so-gentle bubblings and waves of hiss create an abstractly figurative morphic field, the right hand playing the dream piano juggles two notes in hypnotic slow motion as the right one squirts blobs of shimmering irredescence on the screen of the third eye. As could be expected with thinner, dub plays an important role, magic echoes setting up the tent under which crackling fires of scratches and dots, as well as sinister and silent drone threads rise to the sky like incense. Just like it is never 100% clear whether the music resides in major or minor key territory, its mood mysteriously sways between intimacy and estrangement without ever straying from its hermetically sealed path. As the album progresses, tracks get longer, more self-reflective and increasingly deep and dense, immersing the listener completely: Jules may build his pieces from sparse source material, but he weaves the individual elements tightly together in fascinating moodscapes. „Strandpalast“, the pre-finale, is a magnificent fluffy vision of a day at the beach from the little cosmos of one′s small balcony – the album as a whole an aural holiday which promises just as much relaxation as two weeks on a lonely island.
Blijft een heerlijk album.. Voor iedereen die van Ambient & Dub houdt
The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves it to the beholder to let these images take his thoughts as far as his mental powers will permit.