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Seattle, United States (2003 – present)
Asva is blowing through town and taking the drone rock medium to new lows. Not your average “doom” band, Asva’s saddlebags are filled with wooden chapel organs and subharmonic drones. Their packs are stuffed with electroacoustic sensibilities and hand-scribbled laments to the alchemical stars - they rode through walls of electrostatic fuzz to toll the mission bell on this side of the firmament - then they smashed your piano to splinters just for the sound it makes. In their wake nothing remains but tumbleweeds and twisters, dancing pointlessly in ageless dusty darkness.
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tim4tw
You people should also check out Ligeti, for example his Cello Sonata (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrVagXdfnbc) or Lontano (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2OQbA3r78M). Hint: turn the volume up!
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bootsykronos
I'm currently working on a collaboration with Joel Phelps (Silkworm, Downer Trio) that some of you might like. Here's a link to our first sort-of-finished-but-still-rough song. http://soundcloud.com/gsdahlquist-asva/thine-v-1
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paradigm__shift
Choral work by Scelsi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GZgbt9sTcY
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bootsykronos
I have not heard any of his music but his name is familiar. I'm going to have a look at the link you provided... Did/does he compose for chorus? Thanks for the tip! On another note here's a link to a good review of the new Asva/Philippe Petit collaboration due out uh, today actually, July 16! http://gumshoegrove.com/2012/07/09/asva-philippe-petit-empires-should-burn-cd-small-doses-basses-frequences-records-album-as-art-209/
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paradigm__shift
So there's a couple of albums worth of new material waiting to be released? That's awesome, I had understood Presences of Absences was the last album Asva would release, but thankfully that's not the case. Btw; Stuart, since you're delving into classical music at the moment, have you ever heard the music of Giacinto Scelsi? Absolutely amazing stuff, he was already doing the whole 'drone' thing in an orchestral form in the nineteen-fifties! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLi3xxxjHDc
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bootsykronos
This is a wonderful review... I thank you for it.
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SaturnIAPV
ITALIEN RECENSION BJORKO DIO. http://dundundudu.blogspot.it/2012/07/asva-presences-of-absences.html
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Pseudo-Bread
The first sentence in the description is so apt.
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M3Event
Asva's G. Stuart Dahlquist spoke to M3 about contemporary classical music, Andy Warhol and warrantless wiretapping… http://m3event.wordpress.com/2012/03/23/interview-asva/
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AeterSaath
Beautiful.
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XfnSnow
no.1 on my list: http://www.last.fm/user/XfnSnow/journal/2012/01/03/59sc4p_58-ish_reviews_for_2011.
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Delirium-Cordia
It's not much but I've previewed Presences of Absences in an article of mine.
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Delirium-Cordia
I for one loved Presence of Absences. All of it.
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ugunshotgun
Indonesia, please :)
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knifeintheback
I hate feeling like a whore, but this was the first place I thought of when pondering places to share this... lo-fi loop drone/ambient/electronic/etc http://soundcloud.com/mugeninfinity
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Botrytis
Presences of Absences is like a silky quill. and the vocal is so wonderfull (especially in birds)
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TheUnhinged
Not a huge fan of the falsetto vocals, I prefer the female vocals on the earlier albums. However, Presences of Absences is still a pretty good album.
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DragonBottles
Really, really digging on Presences of Absences right now.
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bootsykronos
I knew some people might have a hard time with PofA... it's the one though, that I find I can listen to repeatedly and still like and not find tedious. Give it a chance Khamuul, you might find it more appealing as time goes by. I do.
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Khamuul
"Birds" is best song of Asva (well, together with "A Game In Hell, Hard Work In Heaven"), but Presences of Absences as a whole is little bit of disappointment to me. :(
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