GALE GRAND CENTRAL "Garlands"
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Fluttering Dragon 023
ORTUS
OBSCURUM
It's very nice when you receive a CD that you have absolutely
no picture of at all and after having heard it one time, you're
left with the picture of yourself pressing the play and the
repeat buttons in order to hear it again. I think Garlands is
an excellent debut-album in several different ways. It's professional,
it's interesting and last but not least, it's a very nice listen.
The music of Gale Grand Central is somekind of bleak, instrumental
industrial music with a lot of emphasis on melodies and rhythmns.
The atmosphere is often quite cold and depressive in a sense
that can only be established through means of electricity. Yet
there are also tracks that are more up-tempo but the point of
contact is definitely a certain harshness in the sound. The
tracks are very well-structured and the sound is quite up-in-the-front
and demarcated into different channels. Thus, this music is
quite easy to listen to. I also feel that many of the tracks
also are quite synchronized, the track Never Again is a perfect
example of this with it's relaxed rhythm, sort of like a machine.
Yet Svensen has succeded in varying his tracks pretty well.
All tracks carry with them an unique theme eventhough there's
still a red line in the shape of a certain degree of originality
which binds all these tracks into a whole. I don't know what
more to say about Garlands really. I hearthily recommend this
release since I think it's one of the best electronic releases
reviewed in this issue.
[Ectonaut]
HEIMDALLR
Gale Grand Central is the solo project of Sweden's
Per Svensen, supported by his compatriot Frederik Bergström
of No Festival Of Light. "Garlands" is his first album,
and it must be noted that, as such, the effort is more than
convincing. The magnificent work thus delivered blends an array
of electronic, ambient, and industrial influences as its author
successfully manages the difficult task of creating an alchemy
allowing for the spirits inherent to each genre to appear in
perfect symbiosis with one another. A relatively calm music
from which, however, a furtive and incandescent aggressiveness
evolves, albeit with discretion and restraint. Stress is laid
on the ambiences, on the particularly innovative and captivating
atmosphere of the work. Despite the industrial references, the
melodies draw a superb furrow through an impressive sonic magma,
cradled by moments of subsidence, as they are typical of the
electronica genre. A truly beautiful album from the beginning
right to the end, that one may wish to share the destiny of
its famous homonym from the early 1980s. Highly
recommended!
APOSTAZJA #2
Nie bede stopniowal napiecia i od razu powiem, iz plyte
ta uwazam za najlepsza jaka wydana zostala w roku 2002. I to
biorac pod uwage wszystkie gatunki muzyczne, co by nie bylo
watpliwosci. Ta plyta zatyka usta twierdzacym, ze wszystko muzyce
zostalo juz powiedziane. Obracajac sie w klimatach industrial
i ambient Per Svensen prezentuje nam niezwykle swieze spojrzenie
na oba gatunki. Slychac to w kazdej sekundzie jego utworów,
które wydaja sie byc niezwykle przemyslanymi kompozycjami.
Generowane dzwieki sa bardzo wyostrzone i zywe, co sprawia,
iz odbiór ich przychodzi sluchaczowi z latwoscia. Plyta
ta nie jest jakas bardzo zakrecona i trudna, ale to wlasnie
te najprostsze rozwiazania sa najbardziej genialne. Wydaje sie,
ze oto nadchodzi nowa generacja muzyków ze Szwecji, którzy
w slad za swoimi starszymi kolegami zamierzaja zawojowac przynajmniej
stary kontynent. Z mojej tendencyjnej recenzji wyczytujecie
same superlatywy, w zwiazku z tym radzilbym samemu zapoznac
sie z tym materialem, wtedy przekonacie sie co mialem na mysli.
Ze zdobyciem tej plyty nalezy sie jednak raczej pospieszyc,
albowiem jej wydanie limitowane jest do tysiaca sztuk. Dodam
jeszcze tylko, iz wydana zostala ona w przepieknym metalowym
pudelku, niezmiernie industrialnym, wspaniale pasujacym do calosci.
