gastón arévalo – ultramar
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thn099 | 22.10.2007 | mp3 | 4 tracks | 19:29 min | 26 mb
 
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Ultramar  04:54 | 6.906 mb
   
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Gourmet  04:34 | 6.426 mb
   
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Verona  05:00 | 7.034 mb
   
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Cinema  05:01 | 7.078 mb
   
   
 
ultramar  19:29 | 26 mb | zip
   

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ultramar
written and produced by gastón arévalo
following several other previous netlabel appearances, uruguayan audiovisual artist and musician-producer gastón arévalo makes his debut appearance on netlabel thinner with his new ep of organic grooves, textures, and ambient climates.

inspired by his aesthetic appeal for nature, topography, oceans, and "the algorithmic forms of plants, trees, and green landscapes", gastón describes his four-track "ultramar" ep as an expression of his passion for translating visual panoramas and climates "into a digital environment in the form of music" constructed from "impregnated rhythms of noises and organic sounds."

listening to "ultramar" will reveal a rich, encompassing ambiance blending melodies played on conventional instruments with crisp grooves, saturated with ambient moods, and infused with minimal dub and electroacoustic influences. each track renders a visual scene into the figurative language of music: "ultramar" emulates a seascape of wind and waves while "gourmet" carries with it the laidback atmosphere of an urban lounge setting. "verona" delivers a spring-like vigor teasing the mind with images of leafing trees and rain-fed streams, and "cinema" continues the organic theme being an edgy, grayish song - an audio portent of an immanent summer thunder-shower with billowing clouds and darkening skies.

text written by larry johnson
reviews
tobias fischer | germany | 11/2007
Arévalo loves deep, warm textures and searches for inner peace in musical structures equally steeped in repetitive patterns as well as organic improvisations. His tracks may only just touch the five minute mark, but in their floating, formless semi-embryonic state, which always appears to remain nascent, they aspire for eternity, spanning wider galaxies than many aimless jam sessions. Direction is essential to „Ultramar“, which creates the sensation of weightlessness through highly controlled doses of reverb, echo, dreamy acid filter modulations and a dense brushwood of percussions. While the two opening tunes are ambitious chill out visions, the spaceship truly lifts off with the astral fantasy „Verona“: Traces of choral voices, swooshing effects, sunwinds, bleeps and dots rotate like a spiral nebula inside a cosmic mirage, pushing forward as the body is stretched to infinite length at the border of the singularity – words can hardly do this track justice. „Cinema“ then safely lands the craft with crackling and stumbling rhythms and a quest for liniarity. With its bended guitars licks and spontaneous reciprocity between different elements, the EP tends strongly towards a far-out version of Jazz at the outer corner of your mind.
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