Hägring
Ronnie Sundin
| Available Formats | No. of Tracks | Price | Buy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Download Album (mp3) | 1 track | £0.75 | ||
| Download Album (flac) | 1 track | £0.75 | ||
| Download Album (wav) | 1 track | £0.75 |
Ronnie Sundin - Hägring
Over 55 minutes and one composed piece of sound, Ronnie Sundin invites our ears into a, for the most part, delicate and minimal sound world. He’s careful to guide us through this dark and sometimes bleak environment with care. Field recordings are set alongside gently moving electronic passages that gradual build up in texture until suddenly they are ripped away with an abrupt click or simply flitter off out of our hearing range. The record takes on some fairly heavy low-end frequencies in the middle of the session, high pulsing tones emerge from time to time also, creating a wonderful interplay between these isolated sound elements. As the journey comes to a close you honestly feel as though you’ve visited another place. Sundin has done well at creating a sound world all his own – it’s not pretty or accessible for the most part, but in its arid and sometimes sharp sound shape there’s a true beauty and refinement. Lawrence English CYCLIC DEFROST (UK)
Reviews
The press notes of this CD talk about "mirages" and I truly believe this is a more than adequate description of Ronnie Sundin's music. Although the impalpable, mesmerizing phantom reverberations present over the whole course of the record are sometimes broken by sudden crunches and sick discharges, the Malmö-based composer follows paths of forgotten memories and unquiet sleeps, letting us have just a small fraction of a glimpse of "what could be
following" after discarding pulse and "regular" structures in favour of thick strata of metallic nothingness and concrete ruins in an abandoned factory. This sort of aural trip is also finely composed: the sonic events suceed in perfect correlation, there is no room for anything to shine while murmuring frequency rumbles expand the altered state of our perceptivity during immobile reminiscences worthy of Mirror or Brent Gutzeit. All in all, "Hägring" is punctuated with mastery touches of decaying sounds; without being modernist at all costs, Ronnie Sundin has given us the gift of ethereal detachment from false beauty. Let these manifestations take their place around you, see what strange light they're emitting, listen to what those mirages have to teach. TOUCHING EXTREMES (IT)
Tracklisting
Download Album (AFRO2028DD)
- Ronnie Sundin - Hägring
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