Tibetan Red - Narrative Spaces
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Format: CD
Label: Tibetan Red Notify Me ( ? )
One of those 'bands' I could never figure is Salvador Franesch' Tibetan Red. Although around for quite some time - actually twenty-five years or so - releases are wide apart. The two previous are already from some years ago, 'Fouta Djalon' (see Vital Weekly 566) and 'Ritual Breathing' (see Vital Weekly 658), both works received with warm anticipation here. Now after a few years here's a new one and three of the four pieces are inspired by a trip to Japan, and one is a dedication to the painter Roman Opalka, who died last year. That piece opens the CD, but it sounds like a semisghure, a chorus of crickets already. Somewhere half way through the piece voices come in, cut-up and hard to be deciphered, but along with the semisghure turned feedback it makes an interesting piece of private poetry. 'Encounter At The Taizo-in Temple' seems to continue this sound poetry, but no doubt is something taped in Japanese temple. Outside we hear the chatter of birds. 'Geisha's Walk' is again a piece made out of insect sounds. 'Invisible Voices', the final piece, reflects urban life in Japan and has voice material from the many busy interactions of Japan, which I always regarded as a very noisy country - even before I visited it myself. Although I enjoyed these four pieces, at the same time I didn't think it had the same power of his two previous works, even when it shares similarities: the sheer minimal development of sounds, the poetry, the repetition, but maybe I heard music made up with just field recordings a bit too often by now to get fully excited. Still, I always find a new release by Tibetan Red a pleasure to hear. (FdW) -Vital Weekly

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Customer Reviews

On 2013-03-09 00:00:00, 'Don Poe, EAR/Rational Staff Reviewer' gave the following review:
High-pitched drones. Voices from the ether. The voices sound native american in nature, but I think it is really process 'other' voices. A very mysterious ride. Listening makes parts of me feel unsettled and nervous. But yet it does calm me down. I am being told a story, but it won't come to me easily. I feel like I am in someone else's dream. These could be location recordings at times, especially the last track, Invisible Voices. These location recordings are manipulated, where is that hiss coming from, that layering of sound? You have your work cut out for you deciphering all of this.

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