erik levander – kondens (rumraket)

after couple of releases received by rumraket i got their latest release from erik levander from sweden. the story begins when rumraket people met this dark romantic on forma nova festival back in 2005 and since then he took part in several recordings and at the end released his second solo release. after four years and lots of problems in the meantime, kondens finally saw the light of the day. eriks hard drive suffered from major crash so the tracks were trapped inside. with some help from friends and donators he tried to recover the data but they didn’t succeed and after 2 years the album was finally finished with couple of new tracks and some tracks rebuilt upon early stereo-mixdowns. with this album erik levander shows his passion for electroacoustic music. as a classicaly trained clarinettist and guitarist he shows his passion for classical sound, however his computer is the main tool he uses to blend all sounds at the end. he plays with noise and classical acoustic motives, combining them with subtle ambient and glitchy electronics resulting in mash up of glitch and melody that gives a warm feeling. sometimes in this 9 tracks erik will remind you on some works from cray's album on bip hop, some noisy parts will remind you of pitas albums or even of the subtle distorted guitar passages from fennesz latest works. this is the finest release received lately. (td)