FALTER BRAMNK – MUSIC FOR LUMINOUS BACKGROUND (CD by Sublime Retreat) * JONATHAN DEASY – LE SACRE (CD by Sublime Retreat) * COLIN ANDREW SHE
3 reviews of Sublime Retreat releases in Vital Weekly !
FALTER BRAMNK – MUSIC FOR LUMINOUS BACKGROUND (CD by Sublime Retreat)
And sure enough, the music may be generated through improvisations, edited later on, the result is quite interesting. Maybe a bunch of shorter pieces is not what you expect from this label, but it works well in terms of variation. The music has a moody character, especially when Bramnk bowes his glass, and it gets a rather unsettling feeling. Sometimes, he plays slow and thoughtful, and on other occasions, a bit more chaotic and random, but nothing sounds all too traditional improvised percussion music.
JONATHAN DEASY – LE SACRE (CD by Sublime Retreat)
There is an orchestral aspect to the music; I wondered if I was listening to processed cello or trombone sounds at various times, and I realised it wasn’t. The slowly ascending and descending notes sometimes give the music a dramatic feeling. It’s movement too slow to fit a soundtrack (unless the film is of similar slowness), but it’s music to sit back and enjoy. Best enjoyed, at least here in these surroundings, on an average volume, and let this roll about slowly in my environment.
COLIN ANDREW SHEFFIELD – MOMENTS LOST (CD by Sublime Retreat)
While the music is very abstract, there is always a trace of a melody here, no matter how deeply buried in the music. There is the overall drone, though not long and never static, and there are smaller events below the current. None of the source material, described as “assorted vintage soundtrack LPs”, can be recognised because the treatments are that wide. And yet there is an orchestral feeling to the music, the soundtrack aspect shining through occasionally. With all the grainy and dark processing going on, this is very much the sort of thing one expects Sublime Retreat to release