reviews
Falk Lenn | 03/2004
Mit diesem Album will Andrey Kiritchenko aus Kharkov der Nacht ein kleines Denkmal setzen. Er denkt hierbei an das Betrachten der Sterne bei einer Zigarette und Wein. Clicks’n’Cuts-Sounds und nervöse Klangspielereien paaren sich in seinen Stücken mit ruhigen Flächenklängen. Nervosität und Schlaflosigkeit gehen einher mit der meditativen Ruhe der Nacht. Teilweise tauchen auch leicht bedrohliche Sequenzen auf, welche, besonders in der Dunkelheit gehört, paranoide Gefühlsregungen auslösen können - passend zum Albumtitel, der an die Geisterstunde erinnert. Kiritchenko erweist sich mit dieser Veröffentlichung als ein Talent auf seinem Gebiet.
http://www.moderne-klangkunst.de
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Nicolas Chevreux | 03/2004
Andrey Kiritchenko, the producive and hard working musician behind Nihil Est Excellence and Sidhartha, as well as behind the Nexsound label, presents here a new full length album, available for free to download from the Autoplate site. I know that I usually don't review mp3s, but here is a whole album, not just a collection of songs, and it is possible to get the whole thing on CDR (that is how I am listening to it).
Glitchy and minimal, but full of very little details, breaks and dynamic blips, "00.00" is an album that sound clearly closer to this musician's works as Sidhartha than to his Nihil Est Excellence droney and ambient material. Incredibly well crafted and constantly full of effects, but precise and made of short sounds, this album takes the best out of the recent click'n'cut scene, but manages to stay interesting and not to get ultra abstract or boring after a couple of minutes. Always driven by a heavy but short beat, this album is full of very little glitchs and melodic lines. The sounds are extremely dynamic and precise. No hissing at all and a great recording quality allow the listener to fully enjoy the music on this CDR, mp3s or not mp3s.
Directly in the vein of the Mitek / Bip Hop/ Mille Plateaux material, Andrey Kiritchenko has acquired a obvious maturity with his glitchy music, even more than with his more ambient material. I am amazed that he still hasn't get picked up by one of the aforementionned label, since "00.00" is definitely at least as good (and often better) as what they release. Very innovative, but really efficient and neither too long, too repetitive nor too exeperimental, here is once again an album that I will cherish, following the excellent "Mouse clicking" one.
Whatever you might think of calm, clicky and bleepy music, do yourself a favor and check out something by Andrey Kiritchenko, may it be this or the Sidhartha albums. They are really among the best of the breed for that type of music. Plus, this one is free, so there is really no reason at all to be picky.
http://www.recycleyourears.com
Denis Kolokol | 09/2004
This is an illustration of the night life, which was painted at night, when Andrey's small son usually sleeps and doesn't try to dismantle his father's computer. The release became somewhat of a classic. A host of musicians made a host of 00.00 remixes and a host of web-zines reviewed the album.
00.00 is an example of Andrey's 'rhythmic material' as he describes it himself and the term fits the kind of this music quite well. There're too many things inside it and it's not easy to describe it clearer. There are many glitches, but they are not click'n'cuts. There are lots of rhythmic and deep-bass splashes, but it's not techno. It sounds clear and dimensional, but it's not ambient. Sometimes it expresses quite pleasant melodic passages, but it is certainly not idm. All the above are rather a set of utilities used by Andrey to express his night mood. And he does this perfectly: track titles and their development, sound and melodic 100 per cent fit the description of the night objects/occurrences. Polnoch' (Midnight) makes one give a yawn; Rassvet (Dawn) associates with the morning mood when I wake up very early for no reason; listening to Sumerki (Dusk) I feel the beginning of the nightlife with my whole being; Noch' (Night) is a drowse mixed with reality. The real movie!
And at the same time, each track is very versatile and complicated; thousands of hardly observable sounds-insects spend their short lives feeding sound giants or leaving spots on light bulbs. From the structural point of view each track on the album is a model of the "natural musical selection".
http://www.indie.kiev.ua/
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