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Franck Vigroux: Radioland: Radio-Acitivity Revisited - VINYL LP

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Franck Vigroux: Radioland: Radio-Acitivity Revisited - VINYL LPTitle: Radioland: Radio Acitivity Revisited Artist: Franck Vigroux Label: Leaf Product Type: VINYL LP UPC: 843190010219 Genre: Rock Release Date: 2016 01 29 Number of Discs: 2 Additional Details: WITH CD For me, there is a great nostalgia and melancholy about this album, says Franck Vigroux, the composer and sound artist who, along with Perrier Jazz award winning pianist and composer Matthew Bourne and installation artist Antoine Schmitt, is

Title: Radioland: Radio-Acitivity Revisited
Artist: Franck Vigroux
Label: Leaf
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 843190010219
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2016-01-29
Number of Discs: 2
Additional Details: WITH CD

For me, there is a great nostalgia and melancholy about this album, says Franck Vigroux, the composer and sound artist who, along with Perrier Jazz award-winning pianist and composer Matthew Bourne and installation artist Antoine Schmitt, is responsible for the Radioland project. Earlier in 2015, they re-imagined Kraftwerks 1975 masterpiece Radio-Activity live on the 40th anniversary of its release, using a formidable barrage of analog equipment and live visual imagery. Vigroux and Bourne briefly considered faithfully replicating the original Radio-Activity, whose structural perfection feels hard to improve upon, before almost instantly dismissing the idea. I thought, no, we dont want to do it like this, says Vigroux. Why do this? So in the end, we kept the melodies, we kept the main element but then treated it in more of a jazz way.Jazz is apt. In the end, there are parallels between the way Radioland uses Kraftwerks original as a jumping off point musically and the journey John Coltrane undertakes on his version of Rodgers and Hammersteins classic showtune My Favorite Things. While the melodies and rhythms of the original album are briefly referenced, this is not so much a cover version as a discovery version, a launchpad for analog and digital exploits that is far truer to the spirit of Kraftwerk than mere duplication. After all, it was Kraftwerk who constructed the grid from which myriad adventures in electronic music-from techno to IDM, house to EDM-have proceeded. This album is an homage to their vast influence.And so, Radioland weaves its own highly individual mesh of electronics, including blizzards of analog, antique futurist percussive patterns, rewired melodies, processed versions of sounds recently discovered in space by NASA, short- and longwave radio samples, hurricanes of modulated electronics, vocoders ebbing and throbbing; its like the detritus of 40 years of electropop all colliding at once. However, Vigroux and Bournes backgrounds in improvisation enable them to master all these forces unleashed, occasionally dropping back into periods of near-silence, Stockhausen-esque moments of eerie free floating, in which all thats audible is the sound of the universe breathing. The resulting meditation on Radio-Activity does not exceed it but expands on it, draws out its implications, marvels out how far music has travelled since 1975, and how far ahead of their time Kraftwerk was. Radioland is a unique electronic experience; to listen to it is to immerse ones self in a kind of awe.

Tracks:
1.1 Geiger Counter
1.2 Radioactivity
1.3 Radioland
1.4 Airwaves
1.5 Intermission / News
1.6 The Voice of Energy
1.7 Antenna
1.8 Radio Stars
1.9 Uranium
1.10 Transistor
1.11 Ohm Sweet Ohm
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