Carl Stone - Electronic Music from the Eighties and Nineties
Artist: Carl Stone
Rating: GOOD
Genres: Electronic,  Post-Minimalism Ambient,  Drone,  Gamelan,  Progressive Electronic,  Tape Music
Released: 2018
Type: Collection
Label: Unseen Worlds
Link: Bandcamp
Electronic Music from the Eighties and Nineties presents the soothing, hallucinatory side of Stone’s slow-evolving, time-bending composition. While we can’t always identify the source, we can hear that his sounds come from somewhere, and that there is a “correct” or “complete” version of them in theory; and so we can hear when they are being changed. What drives Stone’s music is the flow that he draws out of those differences: the way an Indonesian gamelan morphs into a chorus built from one female vocalist over the course of “Mae Yao”’s twenty-three minutes, the surprise emergence of a Mozart chorus out of the synths and skip-glitches of “Sonali,” or the slow, ambient evolution of “Banteay Srey”. “Woo Lae Oak,” issued in a single side edit for the first time, is an exception. Its samples – a tremolo string and a bottle being blown across the top like a flute - are simple in the extreme. Yet the Stone hallmark is clearly present, he locates the inherent emotional properties of the sounds – the tingling anticipation of the string and the calm nobility of the wind – and takes them into unexpected expressive territory....

released June 22, 2018
Editions:
2018 Original Release
Unseen Worlds | UW20 | Digital/Vinyl
01. Banteay Srey (14:09)
  02. Sonali (16:58)
03. Woo Lae Oak (23:06)
  04. Mae Yao (23:22)