Elements Of Light

構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 00:43:30
Personnel: Heming Valebjorg (vibraphone, marimba, tubular bells, hand claps, crotales, hand bells); Hakon Stene (vibraphone, triangle, tubular bells, hand claps, crotales, hand bells, gong); Erland Dahlen (drums, frame drum, log drum, shaker, timpani, hand claps, hand bells); Martin Horntveth (steel drum, tambourine, triangle, wood block, hand claps, percussion, hand bells, gong); Lars Petter Hagen, Hendrik Weber, Vergar Sandholt (hand claps, hand bells); Vegar Sandholt (carillon). Audio Mixers: Hendrik Weber; Kassian von Troyer. Recording information: Kampnagel, Hamburg; Propeller Music Divisioin, Oslo. Photographer: Sigurd Fandango. Arranger: Lars Petter Hagen. Elements of Light sounds less like the fourth proper Pantha du Prince album than it does a commissioned work. Depending on the vantage point, it's either a logical progression or a creative dead end. A collaboration between Hendrik Weber and a cheekily-named ensemble of bell-equipped percussionists from Norway, it's the producer's most ambient work, more suitable for background listening than anything from his past. Considering the level of restraint and thickness of haze present throughout Diamond Daze, This Bliss, and Black Noise, that's saying something. The origin of this project dates back to a 2011 performance at Oslo's Oya Festival, but it wouldn't be shocking if the prompt came from a director who heard Black Noise and sought a film score -- one with a more organic and atmospheric fusion of lean techno and bell-dominated instrumentation. Much of the program is either pleasantly incidental or, in the case of the 13-minute "Particle," jumbled and more impressive than enjoyable. The 18-minute "Spectral Split," however, is perfectly formed and organized. It begins with soft tones and sustain, gently incorporates a subtle but anxious pulse, and builds into the album's most layered, dazzling, and active piece -- an oddly spirit-lifting delight for lovers of both "real" and pared down electronic music. ~ Andy Kellman