Recenze - Count Portmon (Vital Weekly)
Upraveno:COUNT PORTMON (CDR by Poli5)
Count Portman is a solo project of the Prague based musician, journalist and teacher Jan Faix. He works with tape players and analogue electronics. He has released his solo music at the Russian net label Clinical Archives. He is also playing in bands
Tembryo and Levi-Faix. In his solo music he experiments with electronics and tapes and use them in a non-standard way.This untitled release is at Poli5, a musical platform which released the hand-made covered CDR. The album starts with a track based on
synths and samples. The atmosphere is psychedelic, created by a lot of echo. The second track is based on a looped voice, which changes slowly in intensity, and the track gets more and more complex. The third track is full of field-recordings and again
some non-definable glitches. Some ongoing electronic layers take care of depth into the composition. The music is subtle created, completely different than the following tracks, which is created with a lot of feedback, distortion and destructing noises.
Number five is a beautiful synth track, with a nice melody. The sixth track is a nice experiment with tapes, different tapespeed, tape scratching and more. A happy break between the serious tracks. The seventy track is like a psychotrip with lots of
different sounds created by voices, upcoming musical parts of popular music and some white noise as base. The last track is a beautiful ambient track with a looped tape I guess with sounds which refer to frogs, sounds like glitches and some non-definable
rhythmical sounds. The atmosphere is easy-going and beautiful to lay-back and to repeat the track again and again. (JKH)
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