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[at087] Ferran Lega - Memòria Pétria

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Date of release: 10.09.2018  Format: FILE - MP3 / WAV  Length: 45:00 min  Artwork : Audiotalaia  _ DOWNLOAD RELEASE (WAV)  DOWNLOAD RELEASE (MP3) DOWNLOAD FULL RELEASE _ _ Memòria Pétria is a project born from stone and tradition. More specifically Ferran Lega explores the acoustic, timbrical and sonic properties of slate tiles. Those pieces of stone are usually find as the most common rooftop covering in the Catalan Pyrenees. The tiles carry within it a historical background that starts with hardcore rock compression and the formation of sheets of metamorphic rock, commonly know as mountains. From there, slate becomes a basic material for the inhabitants of the mountains across history until the present day where misusage and dereliction has changed habits and uses of this black tiles. Ferran Lega, reckons the deep and rooted into the land background of those tiles and uses them to create soundscapes filed with memories, textures and life of its own by extract...

[at086] Ilir Lluka - An Étude In Two Variations

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Date of release:  05.09.2018 Format:  FILE - MP3 / WAV  Length: 11:25 min Artwork:  Audiotalaia  _ DOWNLOAD AUDIO (MP3) DOWNLOAD AUDIO (WAV) DOWNLOAD FULL RELEASE _ Someone could argue the value of keeping a Netlabel alive this days. Many are the reasons to move to other spheres, media or formats but sometimes, there are a projects that by the nature of it, bring along a sense of coherence to what we do.  Even that the concept behind Ilir Lluka's work is not about that, a certain aspect of it, it is. This is maybe the use of a very short span of time to develop a piece of work such as "An Étude In Two Variations" that only last 10 minutes.  By its shortness, one thinks that a net-release is the best way to present this kind of work, and we are glad to find again reasons to keep supporting this kind of craft. "An Étude In Two Variations" is a two track album. Both pieces are the outcome of an exercise in composition in which Lluka stablished a common b...