5 Streams
Norscq
| Available Formats | No. of Tracks | Price | Buy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Download Album (mp3) | 9 tracks | £5.99 | ||
| Download Album (flac) | 9 tracks | £6.99 | ||
| Download Album (wav) | 9 tracks | £6.99 | ||
| Download individual tracks | N/A | from £0.75 |
Norscq - 5 Streams
'5 Streams', the newest offering from French musician/producer Norscq on the Optical Sound label (http://www.optical-sound.com), is a world away from its dance-drenched predecessor, 'Lavatronic'. Or more precisely, it's a few thousand miles away -- borrowing, remixing, and adding to his soundtrack material for two performances by the art initiative Compagnie Faim de Siecle.
Maybe it's due to the duality in the source of the material -- or the duality in the sound of the material -- but there are two veins of sonic art flowing through this disc. The first is more abstract and electronic, and it runs stronger toward the beginning of '5 Streams'.
The second vein -- more visceral than cerebral -- is exposed toward the middle of the disc, and it is exemplified in the track 'The Man With a Plan'. The song starts in the midst of a 'junglesphere', with tropical animal noises resounding in the air, but it quickly travels toward an interplay of hypnotic guitar and chimes, like the interior ambience of some sultry, overgrown post-rock temple.
This vacillation between styles might suggest that '5 Streams' offers a disjointed listening experience. On the contrary, even with these shifts, there is a pervasive foreboding and anticipation throughout the tracks -- that the music could suddenly explode into indiscriminate violence or culminate into some kind of larger unity or reconciliation. The fact that it remains entirely in the purgatory of uncertainty and anxiety says much about Norscq's understanding about how art can mirror the real world.
Reviews
Norscq is a prolific artist with an exceptionally fine ear for electronica that moves from ambient to the rhythmically explosive with a sonic continuity uniting the extremes.
Robert Scott © 2009, WIRE MAGAZINE
Tracklisting
Download Album (OS018DD)
- Norscq - Fall After Fight
- Norscq - Belly Button
- Norscq - As a Warrior, I Could Have Dance All Night
- Norscq - The Man With a Plan
- Norscq - Moonray
- Norscq - Nature And Paradise
- Norscq - The Holy Cow
- Norscq - N/P 4
- Norscq - fauna and flora
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