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Like Demdike Stare's Tryptych and Andy Stott's Passed Me By/We Stay Together before it, Elemental is another over-sized two-disc package from the Modern Love label. It compiles Sean Canty and Miles Whittaker's four-part vinyl series dating from December 2011 and January 2012. The first two parts, Chrysanthe and Violetta, were issued together as a double 12" pack in a gatefold sleeve with slots for parts three and four, Iris and Rose. All three releases were 1000-copy pressings. Four of the 12 tracks from the series -- namely "Kommunion," "Unction," "In the Wake of Cronos," and "Falling Off the Edge" -- appear here in alternate form, while just over half-an-hour of exclusive, bonus content is added. From track to track, there is not much in the way of cohesion. Instead, there's scene after scene of dark energy that is either foreboding or violent, with the duo equally adept at constructing swarming drones and frantic percussion-heavy pieces. Each track provides its own set of thrills; if there's one track that exemplifies the set, it's "Erosion of Mediocrity," where a sour drone is gradually joined by a clanking industrial rhythm, caustic strings, and swarming liquid probes that seem to coagulate and peak in tension just prior to vanishing. There's no need for Canty and Whittaker's approach to evolve or develop, not when they have a seemingly bottomless well of evocative sounds from which to draw and shape. Harrowing, riveting stuff. They're in an increasingly crowded field but hover well above all of their contemporaries.
© Andy Kellman /TiVo
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Demdike Stare, MainArtist - Sean Canty, Composer - Henkle Music Ltd, MusicPublisher - Miles Whitakker, Composer
(C) 2012 Modern Love (P) 2012 Modern Love
Demdike Stare, MainArtist - Sean Canty, Composer - Henkle Music Ltd, MusicPublisher - Miles Whitakker, Composer
(C) 2012 Modern Love (P) 2012 Modern Love
Demdike Stare, MainArtist - Sean Canty, Composer - Henkle Music Ltd, MusicPublisher - Miles Whitakker, Composer
(C) 2012 Modern Love (P) 2012 Modern Love
Demdike Stare, MainArtist - Sean Canty, Composer - Henkle Music Ltd, MusicPublisher - Miles Whitakker, Composer
(C) 2012 Modern Love (P) 2012 Modern Love
Demdike Stare, MainArtist - Sean Canty, Composer - Henkle Music Ltd, MusicPublisher - Miles Whitakker, Composer
(C) 2012 Modern Love (P) 2012 Modern Love
Demdike Stare, MainArtist - Sean Canty, Composer - Henkle Music Ltd, MusicPublisher - Miles Whitakker, Composer
(C) 2012 Modern Love (P) 2012 Modern Love
Demdike Stare, MainArtist - Sean Canty, Composer - Henkle Music Ltd, MusicPublisher - Miles Whitakker, Composer
(C) 2012 Modern Love (P) 2012 Modern Love
Demdike Stare, MainArtist - Sean Canty, Composer - Henkle Music Ltd, MusicPublisher - Miles Whitakker, Composer
(C) 2012 Modern Love (P) 2012 Modern Love
Demdike Stare, MainArtist - Sean Canty, Composer - Henkle Music Ltd, MusicPublisher - Miles Whitakker, Composer
(C) 2012 Modern Love (P) 2012 Modern Love
Demdike Stare, MainArtist - Sean Canty, Composer - Henkle Music Ltd, MusicPublisher - Miles Whitakker, Composer
(C) 2012 Modern Love (P) 2012 Modern Love
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Demdike Stare, MainArtist - Sean Canty, Composer - Henkle Music Ltd, MusicPublisher - Miles Whitakker, Composer
(C) 2012 Modern Love (P) 2012 Modern Love
Demdike Stare, MainArtist - Sean Canty, Composer - Henkle Music Ltd, MusicPublisher - Miles Whitakker, Composer
(C) 2012 Modern Love (P) 2012 Modern Love
Demdike Stare, MainArtist - Sean Canty, Composer - Henkle Music Ltd, MusicPublisher - Miles Whitakker, Composer
(C) 2012 Modern Love (P) 2012 Modern Love
Demdike Stare, MainArtist - Sean Canty, Composer - Henkle Music Ltd, MusicPublisher - Miles Whitakker, Composer
(C) 2012 Modern Love (P) 2012 Modern Love
Demdike Stare, MainArtist - Sean Canty, Composer - Henkle Music Ltd, MusicPublisher - Miles Whitakker, Composer
(C) 2012 Modern Love (P) 2012 Modern Love
Demdike Stare, MainArtist - Sean Canty, Composer - Henkle Music Ltd, MusicPublisher - Miles Whitakker, Composer
(C) 2012 Modern Love (P) 2012 Modern Love
Demdike Stare, MainArtist - Sean Canty, Composer - Henkle Music Ltd, MusicPublisher - Miles Whitakker, Composer
(C) 2012 Modern Love (P) 2012 Modern Love
Demdike Stare, MainArtist - Sean Canty, Composer - Henkle Music Ltd, MusicPublisher - Miles Whitakker, Composer
(C) 2012 Modern Love (P) 2012 Modern Love
Album review
Like Demdike Stare's Tryptych and Andy Stott's Passed Me By/We Stay Together before it, Elemental is another over-sized two-disc package from the Modern Love label. It compiles Sean Canty and Miles Whittaker's four-part vinyl series dating from December 2011 and January 2012. The first two parts, Chrysanthe and Violetta, were issued together as a double 12" pack in a gatefold sleeve with slots for parts three and four, Iris and Rose. All three releases were 1000-copy pressings. Four of the 12 tracks from the series -- namely "Kommunion," "Unction," "In the Wake of Cronos," and "Falling Off the Edge" -- appear here in alternate form, while just over half-an-hour of exclusive, bonus content is added. From track to track, there is not much in the way of cohesion. Instead, there's scene after scene of dark energy that is either foreboding or violent, with the duo equally adept at constructing swarming drones and frantic percussion-heavy pieces. Each track provides its own set of thrills; if there's one track that exemplifies the set, it's "Erosion of Mediocrity," where a sour drone is gradually joined by a clanking industrial rhythm, caustic strings, and swarming liquid probes that seem to coagulate and peak in tension just prior to vanishing. There's no need for Canty and Whittaker's approach to evolve or develop, not when they have a seemingly bottomless well of evocative sounds from which to draw and shape. Harrowing, riveting stuff. They're in an increasingly crowded field but hover well above all of their contemporaries.
© Andy Kellman /TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 18 track(s)
- Total length: 01:54:50
- Main artists: Demdike Stare
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Modern Love
- Genre: Classical Experimental
(C) 2012 Modern Love (P) 2012 Modern Love
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