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March 5, 2020

Ghostophonia: Review by Feeder.ro

Ioan Titu aka Silent Strike teams up with Felix Petrescu and Valentin Toma aka Makunouchi Bento for a very special electronic music treat titled “Ghostophonia”. Loosely based on the folklore music from the region of Banat, Romania, collected and recorded by Béla Bartók on phonograph cylinders roughly a century ago, the 13 tracks reveal an eerie experience designed with carefully crafted atmospheres, modulations and effects. The concept album was created for the Retracing Bartók...

March 5, 2020

Ghostophonia: Review by Lucian Ștefănescu at Radio Europa Liberă Moldova

Am mai vorbit la Dicționarul de sunete rare despre Silent Strike (proiectul muzical al lui Ioan Titu, de la București) și despre duo-ul de muzică electronică experimentală Makunouchi Bento (alcătuit din Felix Petrescu și Valentin Toma, de la Timișoara). Am vorbit despre ei separat (cu Silent Strike am și discutat), la aparițiile diverselor albume pe care le-au creat în ultimii ani. Am acum șansa să vorbesc la Dicționarul de sunete rare despre Silent Strike și despre...

March 5, 2020

Ghostophonia: Review by Richard Allen at A Closer Listen

Ghostophonia is a tribute to Romanian music, a mix of classic and modern styles, simultaneously nostalgic and forward-looking. The heart of the release is a series of wax cylinders recorded by Béla Bartók a century ago, capturing the folk music of Banat, Romania. Romanian iconoclasts Makunouchi Bento and Silent Strike set this music in new frames, highlighting its otherworldly tone while drawing attention to its enduring appeal. “Sun Falls Silent” includes tribal beats...

March 2, 2020

Swimé: Review by Selenaru_Negrea at RateYourMusic

I know that Qewza and WakaX, the members of this properly titled outfit Makunouchi Bento, were long-time associated with TMBase. I must admit that I never attented that festival, but I venture to guess that there was nothing even close to the sheer wildness of this album. For the Romanian music scene, this is one hell of an experiment - highly sophisticated avant-garde electronic music that is really hard to describe. Tightrope walking on...

February 12, 2020

Pulsating Resins: Review by Borealiscape at Recent Music Heroes

The Romanian persona (non) grata's (Felix Petrescu, and Valentin Toma) subsequent issue embarks on with rooster's crow as the signature to enter into a playful liberation of mind. Throughout the course of four tracks a listener can hear slowed-down and barely twisted sonic madness as if encountering either his/her possible nightmares or lush dreams (it depends on). One can hear ghastly echoes, slight metallic banging, hirsute hisses and pleasant sounds coming from the street...

July 26, 2019

For Headspace #1: Review by James Catchpole at A Closer Listen

For Headspace #1 is a mammoth fifty-track compilation featuring current and upcoming artists on Jakarta’s Tandem Tapes. All proceeds from the compilation will be donated to Headspace, an Australian Mental Health Foundation for 12 to 25-year-olds, in memory of a gentle and much-loved young man who sadly took his own life earlier in the year. In sobering times, our senses are more attuned to the precious nature of life. Seconds take on greater significance, becoming...

July 26, 2019

For Headspace #1: Review by Marcel Thee at The Jakarta Post

Tandem Tapes, a Jakarta-based boutique record label specializing in releasing limited edition tapes, has released its first compilation album. The massive 50-track record also marks the label’s first exclusive digital release. Titled For Headspace #1, all the proceeds will be donated to Headspace, a Youth Mental Health Foundation based in Australia. Label-head Morgan McKellar moved to Jakarta from Canberra, Australia, only two years ago. Arriving here, he almost immediately set up Tandem Tapes, ostensibly as a way...

July 26, 2019

VA1+2: Review by SoWhat

Un viaggio sfaccettato e multiforme nella musica sperimentale declinata secondo coordinate cangianti è il risultato a cui giunge la raccolta pubblicata da Tavern Eightieth con l’intento di raccogliere fondi per l’Alzheimer’s Research UK . Ventidue artisti, molti emergenti e altri più affermati, divisi in due dischi dal tono complessivo differente. “VA1” è decisamente più incline ad una componente rumoristica assente soltanto in “Regrowth” di Midori Hirano, che con le sue vaporose trame apre il disco....

July 26, 2019

VA1+2: Review by Music Won’t Save You

Ci si potrebbe lungamente interrogare sul residuo significato nell’era digitale delle compilation di artisti vari, formato per sua natura già alquanto farraginoso, ancorché senz’altro ancora utile alla scoperta di nuovi nomi e di piccole gemme nascoste. La corposa raccolta di ventidue brani, pubblicata su due cd dalla finlandese Tavern Eightieth supera agilmente qualsiasi premessa metodologica, grazie all’acuta combinazione racchiusa nella sua proposta, interamente consistente in oltre due ore di materiale inedito, che una schiera...

July 26, 2019

VA1+2: Review by Richard Allen at A Closer Listen

Mixed-artist compilations were all the rage at the turn of the 21st century, but have lost some of their appeal in the digital age. Finnish label Tavern Eightieth has done two things to correct any misconceptions. First and foremost, this double-disc set is a benefit album to raise money for Alzheimer Research U.K. Second – and this is for potential consumers – these tracks are exclusive to the compilation, which is...

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