Spekk
Ok, I know my money handling is shit. I assume just like my mother, that I’ll have it more than I actuallly will have. I never was good at mathematics.
This prologue might explain why I ordered all Spekk releases. There actually are two reasons. 1. Most of the samples I heard were great. 2. They’ve released only 11 albums (now 13 actually, which means I have to order those two pretty soon) 3. I like to have everything, (that’s why I’m having trouble not been able to locate raster-notons static 1) 4. I was able to locate all of them
Spekk’s own mailorder works great btw. I think I got everything there that they got. Some of were sold out, but I found them on two different distributors and william basinski/richard chartier I had already.
Anyway, there was is a lot of new music to listen. (and even more but about that another time)
I notice that I’m going along with other people, at least if I interpret signs right. Andrey Kiritchenko‘s True Delusion and Level‘s cycla were both sold out (along with the three first releases) And those two are really great albums. Maybe this far the most easiest to…. No, they’re not. Kiritchenko is somehow easily accessable but Level is not so. At least to me Ken Ikeda‘s Mist on the window and Opitope‘s Hau are much “easier” than Level . How ever Level has a very strong feeling on the album, the whole album.
This kind of music has always been quite hard for me to describe, I never go deep enough into it with the verbal/analyctical level. Then on another levels is very easy to go deep into it.
Ok, I don’t try to describe. Many of the albums have somekind of melancholic mood or undercurrent, at least John Hudak‘s Room with sky, I would say the same on Jefre Cantu-ledesma, Level and maybe also from Andrey Kiritchenko and Ken Ikeda eventhough they seem to have wider scale of things/emotions happening.
The one thing that kinda of amazes me is that eventhough the music is very minimalistic, small and subtle it’s very difficult to leave that just to the background. It demands to be heard. To be taken account.
Like I said Spekk has just released kk:012 and kk:013 which I’ll have to get now. When ever I can afford them.
If you got interested visite their site and hear some samples yourself. And their mailorder is really good and fast at least to Finland.
I wish I could write better.