Kangding Ray - Automne Fold (Raster Noton)
Following his highly successful debut “Stabil”, Kangding Ray releases his second full length record on Raster-Noton, entitled “Automne Fold”. With “Automne Fold”, David Letellier has evolved from the quiet, pristine flow of his debut record to sounds that are raw, dark and organic on this second release. Pulsating rhythms become lost in within walls of saturated strings, words are spoken over bowed acoustic guitars, and analog synths collide with urban field recordings.
Vocals are a central theme through the record. Treated as raw materials, like any other sound, the voice operates as beat, speaks melodies or sets themes.
In some moments, “Automne Fold” retains the emotional simplicity of traditional song structures, where message and images come together, but also manages radical abstract textures, when tracks morph in closed forms of static sounds.
“Automne Fold” is an instrumental record, an album of 14 “folded” tracks, and a cinematic journey between groove and the senses.
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July 31st, 2008 at 8:40 pm
I did not get a copy of Stabil. One reason, I don’t think a copy of it ever came to town, through retail anyway. This Automne Fold reeks of dire, stormy rumblings of the dub step, nasty techno kind.
I thought this would be minimal done gone all deep minimal, with ghost of sounds evaporating right before yours very ears. But no, this is more Orb, the Future Sounds of London, and a tad Akufen. The best of the select genres spread out as a composite whole.
This one is mighty though. A veritable Army of one. Laying seige to sounds and marching them hither and fro, brigades of synth wash plaster your senses and prove out - this is the stuff.