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Christopher McFall - An Eris
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There is some kind of thematic approach to this work, it seems, about the Greek goddess Eris (called Discordia in Latin), goddess of twist and strife. It was the driving force to compose this music for Christopher McFall. Unlike much of his previous work, McFall doesn't rely just on the use of field recordings, but also on a piano and sampled material from a broken phonograph. In that respect one could say that McFall does something new. When I started to play this, I double checked on the first piece that I was really dealing with a McFall release, since its a very musical piece. Shimmering piano tones, a broken loop and that's about it. A simple yet very effective piece of music. The piano will return later, played as a piano (not the inside, unless it appears somewhere in some sort of processed manner, which makes it hard to recognize), but also the more usual McFall sounds appear in here: dark atmospheric humming, micro-bass-sounds and such like, sometimes, like in the fourth untitled piece, working along the piano sound. Yet overall, the music seems more sparse then before - emptier if you want. Hardly a work of discord and strife, to keep Eris in mind. But throughout a wonderful disc, a break away from his previous work, through the incorporation of a real instruments and reduction of processing. Excellent stuff. (FdW. Vital Weekly)
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