Martin Hoogeboom / Oberlin: Light/Well
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"Silence. I like silence. Silence produced by light. Sunlight that moves in slow motion through a quiet room. Islands of light, fallen through the trees, floating on the grass. With Licht I wanted to make music that enters your room as sunlight. Music that moves slowly through your room. Towards silence...
Now there is Light/Well; a slow journey into silence." -Martin Hoogeboom- ...................................... Ultra-limited edition of 50 CDs in hand-made & numbered paper packaging +/or 24-bit Digital Album (FLAC recommended). Includes bonus 12' remix Light vs Well by moody alien. 7 tracks, 65'. Artwork & packaging design by moody alien. Photography by Alexander Holtz. ........................................ Martin Hoogeboom - improvisations with acoustic guitar, volume pedal & loop station on Licht I-III, Lichtschacht III & Light vs Well. Oberlin - improvisations with modular synth on Lichtschacht I-III & Light vs Well, field recordings for Lichtschacht I & Light vs Well. Licht recorded & mixed by Martin Hoogeboom. Lichtschacht I & II recorded & mixed by Alexander Holtz. Lichtschacht III recorded & mixed by Alexander Holtz & Martin Hoogeboom. Light vs Well (moody alien's remix) recorded by Martin Hoogeboom & Alexander Holtz, mixed by Martin Hoogeboom, Alexander Holtz & moody alien. Mastering by moody alien. .................................................. Released October 21, 2018. ℗ & © Thirsty Leaves Music |
REVIEWS.
"Martin Hoogeboom is a Dutch sound artist who works intensively with intangible, organic and domestic sounds; here he also uses an acoustic guitar, loop station and other electronic lines. On the breathtaking album "Light/Well" (2018), he was joined by the electronic magician Oberlin, who also added his own field recordings.
Hoogeboom's three tracks are called “Licht” and are numbered: "Licht I" sounds mysterious, inward; it consists of a mixture of ambient and drone music. "II" is alternating, but the mystery remains. "Licht III" is denser, more urgent; the author even used renaissance polyphony here.
Then the Dutch is replaced by the German Oberlin, who approaches the topic with a louder sound. "Lichtschacht I": on the surface of eighteen minutes develops drone music into unexpected corners, where it wraps itself over elements of an industrial, grinding sound. On "II" he works with a strong melodic motif, which crushes and elevates. On "Lichtschacht III", both protagonists combined their skills to play an almost incomprehensible ambient with a touch of Gothic mysteries.
And then Moody Alien grabbed it all and amplified it in a remix called "Light vs Well" (12:20)."
Jan Hocek for JazzPort.cz (in czech)
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"Martin Hoogeboom is a Dutch sound artist who works intensively with intangible, organic and domestic sounds; here he also uses an acoustic guitar, loop station and other electronic lines. On the breathtaking album "Light/Well" (2018), he was joined by the electronic magician Oberlin, who also added his own field recordings.
Hoogeboom's three tracks are called “Licht” and are numbered: "Licht I" sounds mysterious, inward; it consists of a mixture of ambient and drone music. "II" is alternating, but the mystery remains. "Licht III" is denser, more urgent; the author even used renaissance polyphony here.
Then the Dutch is replaced by the German Oberlin, who approaches the topic with a louder sound. "Lichtschacht I": on the surface of eighteen minutes develops drone music into unexpected corners, where it wraps itself over elements of an industrial, grinding sound. On "II" he works with a strong melodic motif, which crushes and elevates. On "Lichtschacht III", both protagonists combined their skills to play an almost incomprehensible ambient with a touch of Gothic mysteries.
And then Moody Alien grabbed it all and amplified it in a remix called "Light vs Well" (12:20)."
Jan Hocek for JazzPort.cz (in czech)
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