novi sad


beautiful,cryptic and spartan,these three tracks by the greek producer thanasis karpoulias - not to be confused with the artist novisad on the german tomlab label - ask many more questions than they answer.they sprawl through space,as unruly,suggestive and difficult to pin down as their titles.firmly rooted in drone,each piece builds from scratchy near-silence,swelling towards a succession of bracing but opaque climaxes.the opener ''everything looks better beside water'',begins as nothing more than harsh,spare white noise,but eventually a sound of liquid arrives,and the two parts fuse together,flowing eventually into a single,resonant note wreathed in nameless,high-pitched chatter.''crawling on the pavements of your skull''is lengthier and more deliberate still-sound shards chafe against a low,oscillating chord,and gradually the voice of liv ullman (sampled from the bergman film the passion of anna) enters,bringing with it a dose of quiet desperation and opening up connections to the early work of godspeed you! black emperor.
chris sharp - the wire - 281/july 2007

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