Dragon’s Eye Recordings is pleased to release the third installment in its 3″ CD-R series, Long Distance. This volume features a collaboration between Yann Novak and Kev Rolfe (Brittle Stars). Recorded during Novak’s stay in Manchester, this installment of Long Distance continues the previous volumes theme of two artists that have never met collaborating in person. Beginning with a rippling mantra-like melody that slowly distorts into a complex and rhythmic play, the single track, “Melody to Maelstrom,” works to maintain the structure of the original melody. The slight hint of rhythm leads to a hypnotic state as the tones become more distorted; and eventually everything bleeds into complete abstraction. The piece comes full-circle in the end, commenting on the transition from simplicity to complexity, and back again.
Brittle Stars / Yann Novak
Long Distance Vol. 3
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- Duration:
- 21:00
- Format:
- 3" CD-R, Streaming
- Edition:
- 100 (out of print)
- Release Date:
- December 1, 2008
- Cover:
Zach Rathorn
- Track Listing:
- Melody to Maelstrom
- Listen:
- Apple Music
About The Artist:
Press:
October 8, 2008
Clearly this music has the hallmarks of connoisseurs of extreme noise; it would attract keen listeners who have an ear for guitar noise and the sound of digital noise.
September 1, 2008
…a measure of attraction in the music that made me want to play it again…
August 1, 2008
…a single 21-minute sojourn into (e)lapsed time that blossoms, blooms, and collapses in a splendid display of composition trumpeting over-indulgence.
July 1, 2008
…imagine a subtly shifting sound that works around you, enveloping you.
June 8, 2008
Delicately teeming with pulse and fibrillation and roamed under by a resonant hum from the deep, the sound field slowly opens out its architectures to an incoming fog of something new. Melody!
June 1, 2008
This a new collaboration between Yann Novak and UK’s Kev Rolfe aka Brittle Stars that took place in Manchester during …
May 30, 2008
The single track, “Melody to Maelstrom”, pulses with fragile life, delicate and lovely and almost soundless, like watching a flower open without the benefit of time-lapse photography.
May 17, 2008
The central theme, remains throughout, a haunting presence towards the end, that hints at the processes of the life cycle, from order to chaos, and back again, new life fuelled from decay.