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Review: 'CONTI,ULISES'
'Los Griegos creían que las estrellas.....'   

-  Label: 'Flau/ Metamusica'
-  Genre: 'Ambient' -  Release Date: '22nd June 2014'

Our Rating:
The full title of this album is a veritable mouthful which translates into English as: ‘The Greeks Believed That The Stars Were Small Holes Where The Gods Listened To Men’.

Having expended so much energy on the project name, multi-instrumentalist Ulises Conti from Buenos Aires takes the slightly softer option of naming the 27 instrumental compositions after the letters of the Spanish alphabet.

Ñ is the single variation from the English equivalent. This "sound alphabet" ranges in duration from 33 seconds to a little over 4 minutes.

In essence it is one continuous instrumental composition lasting just over an hour which has been dissected up into bite size portions although we are advised that "His work projects a mesmerising quality that can be heard not only in his individual sonic sketches".

Conti is a composer,producer and sound artist who already has seven albums to his name under his own Metamusica label.

Combining digital with analogue, this album is dominated by the piano although also incorporates processed field recordings of everyday life taken from amusement parks, children, insects, birds, basketball games, aircrafts or bell towers.

These acoustic manipulations may be the result of a complicated recording process but what strikes the listener is the beauty and purity of this impressive work rather than its complexity.

Ulises Conti's website
  author: Martin Raybould

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CONTI,ULISES - Los Griegos creían que las estrellas.....