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Angel - Kalmukia album

  • Performer: Angel
  • Genre: Electronic
  • Title: Kalmukia
  • Released: 2008
  • Style: Abstract, Experimental, Drone
  • Country: Austria
  • MP3 version size: 1454 mb
  • FLAC version size: 1566 mb
  • Other: RA MP1 ADX DTS WAV AC3 MMF
  • Rating: 4.9
  • Votes: 259

Description

Release group by Angel.

Angel (3) ‎– Kalmukia. a unique release in its own right, with sound textures belonging only on such a release and somewhat alien to other Angel releases. In fact, one would also claim that the "musical" canvas of "Kalmukia" would almost serve as imaginary soundtracks to non-existing fictionous motion pictures. Trading the somewhat "traditional" ive tonular soundcapes for guitars in the opener ("Bones In The Sand"), one could almost imagine this piece as a musical backdrop to a post-Leone western film.

The four extremely dank-sounding pieces on the album certainly have an accomplished feeling to them - the principals having worked in bands that know their way around experimental electronics and avant-garde work, one would expect no less. But this is an album better to admire for some of its individual elements rather than to regard as a uniquely compelling listen.

Album · 2008 · 4 Songs. Kalmukia - the Discovery, Wiring, Invasion. 3. Effect of Discovery, Test, Alarm, Catastrophy. 4. Aftermath: the Mutation.

Read about Kalmukia by Angel and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. 1. Angel were discovered by Kiss bassist Gene Simmons who secured them a deal with Casablanca Records in 1975. The original members of the band were Barry Brandt on drums, "Punky" Meadows on guitar, Frank DiMino on vocals, Greg Giuffria on keyboards and Mickey Jones on bass. Their self-titled debut album, released in 1975, was an excellent bit of heavy pomp rock, and their l yrics dealt with battles and events in history.

With Kalmukia, Angel seems to have created a sort of maximal minimalism, probing deep emptiness through an uncommonly rich variety of elements. There's no excess here, nothing especially self-indulgent despite the track lengths (together, the four clock in at just under an hour), but simply an extraordinary attention to detail and continuous progression.

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Kalmukia - The Discovery, Wiring, Invasion. Aftermath : The Mutation. Listen to Kalmukia in full in the this site app. Play on this site.

The Republic of Kalmykia is a federal subject of Russia (a republic). As of the 2010 Census, its population was 289,481. Kalmykia is the only region in Europe where Buddhism is the most practiced religion, with Buddhists constituting a plurality of the population.

Tracklist

Bones In The Sand 12:46
Kalmukia - The Discovery, Wiring, Invasion 19:35
Effect Of Discovery, Test, Alarm, Catastrophy 13:12
Aftermath: The Mutation 12:58

Versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
eMEGO 087 Angel Kalmukia ‎(CD, Album) Editions Mego eMEGO 087 Austria 2008
087P Angel Kalmukia ‎(CDr, Album, Promo) Editions Mego 087P Austria 2008

Comments

Dori Dori
It's a damned-if-you-do and damned-if-don't scenario when members of a high-profile "band" each go their seperate ways to explore their own creativity. Mika Vainio has been quite active for numerous years prior, during, and after his stint as one half of Panasonic (I still refuse to call then Pan Sonic even after all these years), but I discovered that finding other works by Ilpo Väisänen was more difficult, hence why it is so hard to find a frame of reference, should that ever be required.Many fans of the infamous duo would probably expect a hint of Pan's sonics to resonate in the post-project's other cirriculars, such as Ilpo's ANGEL, but a warning is at hand, for this album, "Kalmukia", not only proves that there are other aural tonalities to explore than the ground covered sinc Panasonic's 15-year journey, but also represents a unique release in its own right, with sound textures belonging only on such a release and somewhat alien to other Angel releases. In fact, one would also claim that the "musical" canvas of "Kalmukia" would almost serve as imaginary soundtracks to non-existing fictionous motion pictures. Trading the somewhat "traditional" electronically-mutative tonular soundcapes for guitars in the opener ("Bones In The Sand"), one could almost imagine this piece as a musical backdrop to a post-Leone western film.The remainder of the pieces on this disc follow a similar, yet ultimately uniquely specific to their own, course in the sense that each long track is a sonic soundscape of evolving and manipulated soundtrack of sorts, involving very little to no rhythm structure whatsoever, instead relying on the force of sound itself, be it an ear-crunching electronic tone, or a somewhat softer dark-ill drone clashing through the waves. This is a mighty fine effort from Ilpo and Dirk Dresselhaus, with special guest Hildur Guðnadóttir, which was obviously made as a stand-alone piece rather than an effort to follow in the well-known footsteps of the Panasoni giants from which most will have known the works of Ilpo from. If you are expecting anything in the likes of "Kesto" 's first or second discs, you may be quite displeased seeing as this record falls into the catagery of ambient-drone electronic experimentalism more than anything else. A welcomed addition to my own collection!