Anyone listen to Alva.Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto?


A friend just gave me the album Vrioon by Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto. I'm only listening to it on my headphones and all I can say is WOW. This is some wild stuff with really compelling sonics. I'm sort of at a failure to describe it. Very dischordant and minimalist piano overlayed/interwoven with all sorts of digital feedback (Sakamoto is a pretty pioneering electronic composer) Anyone else able to do this a little better justice with the (digital) pen?
mimberman

Showing 3 responses by richard_stacy

How refreshing to see this thread here.

I also love all of their collaborations, beautiful records.
Raster-Noton has been putting out leading edge electronic
stuff for a long time. I'd say the records you are referring
to are much more "musical" than most, the rest
leaning harder to the more experimental/noise side of
things. I particularly like the Senking and Vladislav Delay
(also has releases on several other labels, all of which are
outstanding) Raster Noton records. I also like the Kangding
Ray and Byetone Raster Noton releases quite a bit. Agree,
the sonics on this stuff is top notch. There is a 24bit
digital version of the last Byetone record that is insane.

I'm listening a lot to a new release on Pan, Lee Gamble's
"Diversions 1994-1996". Pan is another interesting
experimental label. Some of the Pan stuff get's outside of
my noise limits but I really like this release.

Again, great to see fans of these genre's here.
Ironically, I posted in another thread yesterday a
recommendation for the Grishca Lichtenberger release's both on
Raster Noton and Semantica. These again lean harder to the
experimental side but I think they are brilliant works.
I have a couple recommendations for fans of the Alva Noto + Sakamoto series...

Szymon Kaliski "From Scattered Accidents"

Beautiful piece of ambient/modern classical, extremely mature for a first LP. This on the Kitchen Label, most of which is pretty nice so you may want to explore their other offerings.

Pill-oh "Vanishing Mirror"

I hate the artists name, how ridiculous, but man is this a beautiful piece of music. Also on Kitchen, slightly more colorful than the above recommendation but still quiet, meandering, home listening stuff.