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Fri Feb 03, 2012 11:27 pm to be expected: Ian Boddy and Erik Wøllo 'Frontiers' |
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Vignoble @ Co.
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Fri Feb 03, 2012 11:29 pm (No subject) |
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DiN Press Release
Ian Boddy & Erik Wøllo : Frontiers
DiN39
Release date 13th March 2012
DiN label boss Ian Boddy is as well known for his collaborative projects as for his solo output and Erik Wøllo is the eighth musician Boddy has worked with on the DiN catalogue. Indeed Wøllo's initial outing on DiN was in collaboration with Bernhard Wöstheinrich on the 2009 release Arcadia Borealis (DiN34). Bernhard has also worked with Boddy on two DiN releases (Moiré (DiN18) & Hemispheres (DiNDDL05)). This feedback and inter-connection between musicians with different musical backgrounds has always been one of the DiN labels main aims which continues to produce fascinating and unexpected results.
Frontiers (DiN39) is a musical travelogue through lands unknown although the sonic climate is very much influenced by the two musicians shared Northern European heritage. The album is book-ended by Vista & Ascension which feature Wøllo's panoramic chordal backdrops over which Boddy plays his now famous "Ondes Martenot" glissando synth lead lines. Between these two beautiful, haunting tracks the album is built around four sequencer driven pieces, each gaining in intensity and culminating in the intense penultimate title track Frontiers. These are interspersed with more abstract and atmospheric interludes, featuring field recordings the two artists have made in their own personal travels through their respective native landscapes. Constantly shifting in mood and tone, the album leads the listener across vast, open, icy sonic landscapes whilst periodically sheltering in more warm humane zones.
Expertly crafted by two renowned musicians Wøllo & Boddy produce a work of complex musical maturity that will open up it's secrets over repeated listenings.
1: Vista (03:59)
2: Trek (05:45)
3: Undergrowth (04:37)
4: Steppe (06:05)
5: Migration (03:29)
6: Reverie (04:25)
7: Searching (07:13)
8: Shelter (07:32)
9: Frontiers (07:57)
10: Ascension (05:25)
Total Time 56:33
All music composed, recorded and produced by Ian Boddy and Erik Wøllo.
Mixed and mastered at Wintergarden Studio, Norway, November - December 2011.
Ian Boddy:
Synthesizers, Gliss-keyboard, Samplers & Field recordings
Erik Wøllo:
Electric/Slide/E-bow & Fretless Guitars, Guitar Synthesizer, Synths & Field recordings
Limited to 1000 copies
Barcode 633367779229
Audio samples @ http://www.din.org.uk/din/node/426
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Jon
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Sat Feb 04, 2012 3:39 pm (No subject) |
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Interesting. Wøllo continues to pour out releases.
I just came to think about it, I don't think Wøllo ever released a compilation album after 30 years in the business. Peculiar and long overdue.
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Sat Feb 04, 2012 11:10 pm (No subject) |
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Another one I would like but...may pass.
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Mon Apr 02, 2012 3:06 am (No subject) |
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I wouldn't pass.
This is a great album once you get into it, pretty varied with some hard hitting melodic tracks as well as soothing ones.
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Mon Apr 02, 2012 7:56 am (No subject) |
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I listened to it twice now. And although I'm a big fan of Ian Boddy and also like most of his collaborative works, this one didn't really grab me. Probably because Wølllo's part in this one seems to be much bigger than Ian's (i.e. it sounds more like a Wøllo album than anything else). And as i mentioned elsewhere, I think Wølllo is repeating himself a bit too much.
So, although not a bad album, it's definitely not one I'll play much.
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ianboddy
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Mon Apr 02, 2012 11:02 am (No subject) |
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Interesting feedback 
I've done a lot of collaborations over the years and I really enjoy doing them as each one presents new & fresh challenges.
It's always interesting to see how folk try to guess who did what or how it sounds more or less like me or the other musician. To be honest I often try to NOT sound like me when doing a collaboration - after all I might as well do a solo album if I wanted to sound "like me" - whatever that is.
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Mon Apr 02, 2012 11:17 am (No subject) |
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Got it a few weeks ago...really good CD....
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Mon Apr 02, 2012 11:19 am (No subject) |
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Exit Strategy and Strange Attractors set new reference beacons which I tried not to remember in this case as I am sure the intended outcome was meant to be different.
Can't say who did what either but assumed some of the melodic structures, guitar and perhaps New Age echoes to come from Erik.
I seem to like it more with every listen for what it is, every collaboration brought us something else.
I also like Waterscapes, it could have made a nice (non library) album if the tracks were longer, I may try gluing them together as a remix album, see what comes out.
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Mon Apr 02, 2012 11:26 am (No subject) |
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Well of course both Exit Strategy & Strange Attractors had a very "analogue" sound & feel which is somewhat absent from Frontiers - although my Ondes Martenot gliss keyboard appears on some of the tracks.
My library albums are interesting projects as they're probably my most "commercial" work these days - as indeed they are intended specifically to be used in that context. This leaves me blissfully free to pursue whatever musical path I want to on the DiN releases.
However I am constrained by their format in the short form of the tracks although I suspect I get away with far more adventurous and interesting pieces than some of the more "music for lifts" style of library music.
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Wed Apr 04, 2012 3:46 pm (No subject) |
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« VCO1 » wrote:
I listened to it twice now. And although I'm a big fan of Ian Boddy and also like most of his collaborative works, this one didn't really grab me. Probably because Wølllo's part in this one seems to be much bigger than Ian's (i.e. it sounds more like a Wøllo album than anything else). And as i mentioned elsewhere, I think Wølllo is repeating himself a bit too much.
So, although not a bad album, it's definitely not one I'll play much.
I would love to see Wøllo collaborate with Øystein Sevåg again. The two most well-known norwegian EM composers used to play in the band Celeste together, and Sevåg also worked on Wøllo's first album Where It All Begins.
Strange they haven't worked together for almost 30 years.
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