Hans Fjellestad
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Fjellestad- piano, electronics, sampler, etc.
Accretions
ALP032CD
Can electronic music avoid its old
tricks? Can it not sound bleak?
Can it still be truly weird, not standard-issue weird? Yes to all those
questions.
And the strange thing here is that this recording has an acoustic piano base, or
at least acoustic piano DNA. What’s inside: twelve tone pianistics that
won’t behave,
structured chaos, frenzy you can follow. This is free music that came in out of
the cold,
strange and unforgiving. The taped material and the live blend and give you
something
neither could begin to if they were on their own. Track after track upended my
expectations. Fjellestad’s
organic and inorganic materials are woven into bright, scary textures.
Contradictions are all there in living colors that reach out and arrest you.
Accretions
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San Diego, Calif. 92138
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