freiband - leise (cronica) freiband is one of frans de waard's music projects, that with the releases before this album 'leise' was focused more on the drone aspects of sound, while with this release it shows that more of the musical styles and genres that are influences for frans de waard also for his other music projects (beequeen, goem, shifts, kapotte muziek, etc.) can be and are merged and presented altogether in one cohesive form on one release. even the drone moments on 'leise' sound as a kind of crackling ambient, as in the tracks 'storm', 'daisee' and 'bij'. what's characteristic about this album is that all of the sounds were played by frans de waard's daughter elise de waard, when she played various musical or non-musical objects, amplified with contact microphones. then freiband started to process the soundfiles and play more live versions (obviously sounding different one from each other) of this project in more occassions and places. and afterwards this cd album was made for cronica, that sounds as a mixture of many spontaneous and often engaging and nice fragments, that are in many of the 10 tracks in a looped form (which is an approach characteristic for goem, so the influences interfere again, in a nice way). all the pieces on the album sound very gentle and a bit fragile sometimes, maybe because in the first place they're literally initiated by a child's playing. it's interesting that the most present atmosphere on the whole release is a kind of looped industrial mood with a specific atmospheric kind, as in the tracks 'kraan', vuur', 'rammel' and 'paarden', that are eventually forming a specific drone and ambient moods of their own kind, sometimes also with a distant pop sensibilities. the tracks are flowing into each other, changing the moods or sometimes maybe staying on one place for a bit longer, when the rhythmic mood becomes a bit vague, which is not an obstacle on this release, with it's almost 40 minutes. (br)