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Sister Loolomie "Signals" CD-R (ltd. 250) ZHB-XX 1. No Final Decision Here [mp3: fragment] 2. About Corpuscles 3. Prelude and Part about Pink Dream [mp3: fragment] 4. Sleep Before the Alarm 5. Light and Cold [mp3: fragment] total length: 48:54 release date: November 02, 2009 price: €8 |
Sister Loolomie is one of the offspring of [S]ergey (or just [S]), a musician from Moscow region, known for his projects Exit In Grey, Five Elements Music and some others, as well as for his labels Still*Sleep and Semperflorens. The musical style of [S] is notable for its delicate and gentle approach to sound, the keywords for its definition are: ambient / drone / experimental / electroacoustic. In Sister Loolomie [S] utilizes deliberate sonic "digitalizing" and at the same time manages to keep the warmth and cosiness of sound in his own way, resembling tape drone music.
[S]ergey uses guitar, electronics, radio and computer processing in creating his soundscapes, both abstract and sensuous at the same time. The compositions move calmly and slowly, sound loops draw in attention like spirals and dissolve it in their textures. Shivery signal waves and soft generated rasp form an aerial atmosphere, in which crackle the discharges of digital interference, and bright yet slightly melancholic melodies bring serenity and tender contemplative sadness.
Reviews
Sergey is the man behind Sister Loolomie. He's also responsible for the music of Five Elements Music, Exit In Grey and his labels Still*Sleep and Semperflorens. This I believe is his second release as Sister Loolomie. Much of his music deals with the almighty drone, and as Sister Loolomie it is not different. However there is one major difference, and that is that here he uses only digital means. For one reason or the other, this album was already recorded in 2004, but only finished this year. At his disposal are a guitar, electronics, radio and all of that goes into the computer for some further processing. Distinctly digital it is. Sergey down-samples the material into a gritty, grainy sound, using many loops that phase shift around. Its not the world of dreamy drones, but that of angular electronics. Not really warm glitch music, there is however something captivating about this work. The sheer minimalism of revolving dark, grey sounds make this is into a great album.
Sister Loolomie is the project by one of Russian electronic underground representatives, musician Sergey [S]. In album Signals he creates big, voluminous pools of electronic ambient with changing deepness - at the beginning of the next of 5 tracks we are deepened up to knees, up to the end developed by him audio substance drags you away totally. Ambient, drone, reverberation - this is a common set of scene fans, general misty atmosphere and mood of deep penetration into dense mental layers. Modest, simple melodies develop emotional side of the record giving shape to the stripes of audio design. Quite habitual for style, destructive bitcrush went over the sound, accurately like with a brush, making the texture of sound surface brighter and rougher, adding to extensive compositions aesthetics of digital noise effects. Breaking, scratching and mixing of sounds layers is a very fascinating business. That's extremely well when you manage to do it the way when not only the author of music likes it, but also a small group of people who are ready to buy very limited edition of CDr with album which came out. I think that each person of them will find in signals of Sister Loolomie his own warm, cozy cosmos and will be maybe not surprised but fully satisfied with pleasant home music.
[...] We have before us five new (and slow) instrumentals from a Moscow collective working together with a label whose very name speaks clearly to the traditions of industrial music. In Russia, however, especially at the start of the 21st century, the noun 'industry' has a rather melancholy overtone. It no longer refers to large, nationwide processes of goal-driven construction, but instead to the effort(s) involved in a qualitatively different type of activity. For the one or two members of Sister Loolomie, work is better directed away from places marked by asphalt and anxiety. Rejecting any notions of sociopolitical permanence, they find instead a more 'comfortable' and consoling sense of lasting membership in the sounds of places that existed before Moscow even took shape.
[...] Sister Loolomie's hometown offer many opportunities - at a minimal distance - to walk away from modernity against the backdrop of 'hypnotizing field-recordings of city and nature.' That same sense of hypnosis, mirrored in the 'whirlpool' of sounds we have here, emerges thanks to the repetitious cycles of the natural world or 'enduring elements of nostalgia.' [...] It is, in a word, an enduring state, replete with all manner of comforting, consoling, and meditative 'signals' that have outlasted even the loudest declaration from downtown.
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