Bente Vist - Seadrift - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

During his own lifetime, Niels Viggo Bentzon (1919-2000) became the very symbol of modern music in Denmark. An unstoppable creative force which, right from his breakthrough in the early 1940s, was in a category of his own, Per Salo, the pre-eminent Danish interpreter of Bentzon, here turns to Bentzon's huge-scale piano cycle The Tempered Piano, with a personal compilation of preludes and fugues from the many volumes that Bentzon wrote with direct inspiration from Bach. Riotous digressions, musical worlds of unbridled fantasy, loosely constructed blowholes - everywhere Bentzon broke new ground - ground far from the golden mean.

Attend the tale of Beinta Broberg. So dark an aura gathered around this unfortunate seventeenth-century soul that she became known on her native Faroe Islands as 'Wicked Beinta'. 'I think that society reacted to her rebellious spirit by trying to stain her reputation, by casting her out and portraying her as a kind of falle nwoman', says Faroese singer and electronic composer Anna Katrin Øssursdóttir Egilstrøð. Composed by Anna Katrin Øssursdóttir Egilstrøð and Allan Gravgaard Madsen, the symphonic song cycle's introspective, veiled songs are couched within a mostly passive-aggressive orchestral landscape not a roaring and surging ensemble but a brittle, desolate and minutely changeable one.

Drumcode veteran Oscar L joins forces with Metodi Hristov, a newer recruit to Adam Beyer's revered techno tag, for their collab two-track EP 'Gravity'. Madrid's techno/tech house maestro Oscar L has a long association with Beyer's twin labels Drumcode ('Again' LP, 2023, + performing at DC events) and Truesoul inc. solo EP 'Vulture' (2022), Dosem collab 'Aircargo' EP (2023), 'Yapper' with Max Styler (2024). As well as Adam Beyer, Oscar's had support from Richie Hawtin, Nicole Moudaber, Joseph Capriati... and also released on Knee Deep In Sound, Stereo Productions, We Are The Brave et al. Bulgaria-based Metodi Hristov brought his unique techno sounds to Drumcode last year, with his debut DC 2-track EP 'Build To Destroy'. Both tracks, title track and 'Flatline', were included in his Sept 2024 Drumcode Radio Studio Mix live from Sofia. With support including Carl Cox and Enrico Sangiuliano, Metodi's career is swiftly up and coming. 'Gravity' the title track hurls itself into the fray with fast, heavy techno beats, reverb-rich growly hoovers, while a contrasting sweetly melodic chopped and processed female vocal holds it's own against a dystopian dialogue between two sinister machines in dark, distorted, industrial juddering synth. There's a lot going on, dark, powerful, and dance-demanding. 'Up & Down' full-on attack from the first nanosecond, with very fast beats, layers of percussion and a dark male voice intoning the title riff. An insistent, reverbing, 'hammered strings' synth melody competes with a melodic second voice, high and sweet bringing light to very dark shade. 'D'you feel it now... ', you surely will.Tracklisting A. GravityB. Up & Down