Ref. SDott #009 Digital Album
Album: Reniform
Artists: Toni Dimitrov / Jared Sagar
Art and visual work by Seattle Dott Design
Cover picture Toni Dimitrov
Genre: Ambient, Experimentation, Field Recordings
Date 09.08.2017
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Free download


Continuing the saga of the Dimitrov/Sagar collaborative efforts, here we meet up with two pieces from their 'Reniform'. While the previous collabs, of which two were released by the respectable Sonospace (other for post global and Lagerstaette), are more kind of abstracted ambience in nature, on 'Reniform' there is a clear distinction in the more sort of improv sense for direction. Things crackle and pop, the sounds are melting and squeezed in a sort of a mesh up, but never over the top. Things never explode into harsh noise in these two pieces, although the noisy aspect of the sound is also omni-present. Think of it in a japanese way, possibly the onkyo style, like the sound of emptiness, like for example reading the prose of Haruki Murakami in his novel 'Kafka on the shore'. Sort of a transparent feeling. Even a distant melody is present in the second piece. It is well achieved in the music of 'Reniform'.

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Toni Dimitrov is the man behind post global recordings, but also cultural producer and cultural explorer, radio host and radio activist, philosopher and communicologist, poet and mountain climber as well as sound artist, dj, designer, organiser. When at home and not traveling he is doing various projects that keeps him busy, from music that is obviously the main focus of his hectic lifestyle, but also other projects including writing, radio art and field recordings, organizing sound/art events, doing design. His radio programs on radio Kanal 103 and Resonance Extra are dedicated to contemporary electronic music and political discourse. His sound is natural soundscape from Macedonian mountains.

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Jared Sagar is a producer/composer born in 1977 and residing in the United Kingdom. In his various soundworks he concentrates in bringing out intensity, chaos and isolation. His sounds are mostly made from field recordings then manipulated, fragmented, pulled apart, then put back together to form a new sonic soundscape. There is no focus on time as such, nothing syncopated, the focus is purely on sound itself, the textures involved and the emotion found in it. His compositions can be formless beats, drones, noise, ambience, basically sculptured sound focusing on time and space.

Sapience (Lagerstaette)
lagerstaette.bandcamp.com/album/sapience

Subboreal (Sonospace)
sonospace.bandcamp.com/track/subboreal

Maieutic (Sonospace)
sonospace.bandcamp.com/album/maieutic

Eclosion (post global)
post-global.com/releases/post022.html