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VLADISLAV DELAY, "NAIMA"
Recorded at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria lastSeptember, Luukas Onnekas was one of the chosen to fill the OMVKlangpark near the Danube with live sound over six days. This disccompiles highlights into a single 42 minute track.
Onnekas is mostlikely using material from last year's 'Anima' as a starting point,restructuring it on the fly as the remixed title 'Naima' suggests. Addto this Onnekas' own words, lyrics from his house project Luomo and anart mission statement of sorts, recited in foreign accented English byhis girlfriend. Fascinated by femininity, who better to help himexpress this? But the most telling line, "I'm unable to address mysound, my voice with words", reveals Delay's dilemma and blessing:sound is his one true medium of expression. Like 'Anima', 'Naima' is alukewarm, gelatinous pool where innocuous sound bits buoy and sink,seemingly at random. There are passages where the music lies dormantand just her voice remains, unaffected or folded into the mix, or viceversa, the music by itself sometimes trailing off into silence.Everything fluctuates between linear and non-linear movement,subliminal melodies and rhythms arise then disappear, music and wordsbecome simply music. Beautiful, simply beautiful. And that is whyOnnekas remains my favorite contemporary electronic musician. -
Onnekas is mostlikely using material from last year's 'Anima' as a starting point,restructuring it on the fly as the remixed title 'Naima' suggests. Addto this Onnekas' own words, lyrics from his house project Luomo and anart mission statement of sorts, recited in foreign accented English byhis girlfriend. Fascinated by femininity, who better to help himexpress this? But the most telling line, "I'm unable to address mysound, my voice with words", reveals Delay's dilemma and blessing:sound is his one true medium of expression. Like 'Anima', 'Naima' is alukewarm, gelatinous pool where innocuous sound bits buoy and sink,seemingly at random. There are passages where the music lies dormantand just her voice remains, unaffected or folded into the mix, or viceversa, the music by itself sometimes trailing off into silence.Everything fluctuates between linear and non-linear movement,subliminal melodies and rhythms arise then disappear, music and wordsbecome simply music. Beautiful, simply beautiful. And that is whyOnnekas remains my favorite contemporary electronic musician. - samples:
