- WAXFLATTER >> TO TRAVEL THROUGH KATHMANDU TO BHUTAN Beatport: beatport/release/blend-smells/1105135 Itunes: https://itunes.apple/it/album/blend-smells/id658300810 Soundcloud: https://soundcloud/scenemusic-records/to-travel-trough-kathmandu-to-bhutan WAXFLATTER >> Soundscape composition and drones: an experimental music project! Waxflatter’s unique, evocative, and atmospheric brand of electro music made him a favourite among Dutch and Belgian audiences, where both his heavy-beat tracks and ambient compositions enjoy a wide following among young creative people and trend-setters alike. Behind the projected success of “Level Crossing”, due in part to its boundary-busting interactive music video, Waxflatter is now scheduling tour dates at Amsterdam’s Trouw venue, as well as a series of University towns throughout the Netherlands, including Tilburg, Leiden and Rotterdam. Waxflatter’s new composition is named after a much beloved film character and is realized using analytical musical data, taken from photographs which evocate memories of the village he grew up in. The images of Chernobyl narrate a vision of a lost city, alive with microorganisms, animated by the squeaking of derelict carousels and entrapped in silence and empty squares, where many lay the signs of a nuclear disaster. The author pictures himself as Waxflatter, the scientist in Barry Levinson’s film, and travels across different landscapes that fuse non-places with melancholic memories of his own lands. The ‘contaminated city’ that we discover in the first few tracks explores the bucolic and idyllic aspects of Waxflatter’s background. Here we encounter a ‘New World’ where what is extinct and withered has a joyful new life through memories. The past is here rediscovered in technicolour; it is a lush landscape full of vineyards and fine perfumes, as delicate as the sights of the surrounding mountains. As the acoustic carpet trips within a vortex of echoes we find ourselves confronted with a crossroad; we are then suspended in mid-air with our feet stuck in the cement. From then on the journey continues in a calm mood, slightly overshadowed by the unpredictable and inevitable future that is to come. The memories of laboratories and industries that choke the green of that fertile land suddenly hit us; hence the sounds become more acid, louder and heavier, reminding us of the very machinery that is culprit. A surreal staccato brings us amidst train and then coach tracks, guided by phantoms of the past that soften the atmosphere with folk guitars. Next, we are transported in a forest which in the author’s mind represents both stupor for the marvellous and melancholy for the time been. The leitmotif that keeps resurfacing is the sensation that good and evil are inextricably linked. I cannot help but wonder: how can such opposites coexist? Desolation pushes us round the corner and through a secret passage inhabited by imaginary elks and wizards riding electronic drones. The viscerality of this journey is a fantastic and metaphysical introspective script. At this point we feel fire under our feet, that once again forces us to choose which path to take at the crossroad we have previously encountered. Desert and glacier-like sounds allow us to communicate with our most inner selves where we discover the mountain and its animals. Then the sound of an abandoned ski resort brings us back to a space inhabited by others. We listen to the snowflakes falling, the sound of a chairlift is fused with that of a subway. Once again we are confronted with the crossroad: shall we go up or down? It is in this very instant that the ski lift brings us up to the mountain hut, where childhood memories and dreams came to life, where all music was listened to, from violins to violas. Scene Music Records production: scene-music/
Posted on: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 12:00:02 +0000
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