Monochromes by Michel Banabila
Electronic.
Reviews / quotes:
UTILITY FOG / FBI RADIO:
Dutch musician Michel Banabila is a frequent visitor to these playlists, often in a very "fourth world" vein. You could hear his latest, Monochromes, through that stylistic pigeonhole, but I enjoyed how weirdly & rightly "Toy Shop" blended out of Atom™'s minimal techno, with its tumbling percussion. "Map Symbols" is ambient layers of pitch-shifted clarinet and watery field recordings, slightly uncomfortably discordant rather than peaceful. Excellent sound-art. (Peter Hollo)
NIEUWE NOTEN:
De creativiteit in het vinden van bijzondere geluiden lijkt hier geen grenzen te kennen. Als voorbeeld kan het vrij ingetogen ‘Map Symbols’ dienen, waarin gruizige, industrieel aandoende geluiden samengaan met een vrij duistere klanknevel. Prachtig klinkt ook de onheilspellende klanknevel in ‘Nothing Left’, muziek die de titel zonder meer recht doet. (Ben Taffijn).
---> 'Alienation' was originally released as a digital single on July 9, 2021, but I felt it should be added to Monochromes.
Tracklist
| 1. | Glass | 5:24 |
| 2. | Transitions | 2:29 |
| 3. | Toy Shop | 2:46 |
| 4. | Grim | 3:04 |
| 5. | Map Symbols | 3:28 |
| 6. | Nothing Left | 4:44 |
| 7. | Alienation | 4:50 |
Credits
Music composed & performed / artwork by Michel Banabila.
(glass sounds, field recs, virtual instruments, synth, guitar sounds, ocarina, tapes, webSDR, Sampletoy, Qu-Bit Nebulae sampler, voice).
Alienation is also available on CD:
banabila.bandcamp.com/album/hidden-patterns
Cat. Nr. 10052022TR.
UPC 196626976239.
℗ 2022 Tapu Records.
