Description:
(2022) Koray Kantarcıoğlu - Loopworks 2
Review:
When Loopworks by Koray Kantarcıoğlu was released in 2018, it was at the same time an extraordinary album while it actually working with familiar formulas: the visual and sound artist created eerie, sustained ambient pieces based on loops that had been manipulated almost beyond recognition, reminiscent in their style of William Basinski and even more so of the British representatives of the Hauntology principle. But by concentrating on recordings of Turkish music from the 1960s and ’70s, Kantarcıoğlu created a completely different sound aesthetic that drew on their tonal characteristics. Loopworks 2 picks up where it left off, yet draws on a wider range of source material that includes new age and jazz releases plus occasional musical additions from Berke Can Özcan on drums or drone-folk artist Ekin Fil. The eleven pieces, accompanied by just as many outtakes on a bonus CD, sound accordingly more nebulous and at times more esoteric, but sometimes all the more focused than on the previous album. It seems as if the contours of Kantarcıoğlu’s music vanish at the same time as new structures develop from them. The result of these circular processes of the sound fading away and new forms taking shape is nothing less than outstanding.
Track List:
01 - 1982 ∕ Nepa 01
02 - Lamba Pr 0 1 ∕ 165530
03 - 5147
04 - Lamba Pr 02
05 - Lamba Pr 03
06 - Drums & Obsession
07 - 626 Loop
08 - Nepa 02
09 - Schaffhausen
10 - 011 Loop
11 - Rythmes
12 - Extra 01
13 - Vyechera ∕ 44 06 55 ∕ Sunflower
14 - Agat 01
15 - Ahtapot
16 - Kugug
17 - Spektrum 01 ∕ Spektrum 02
18 - Extra 02
19 - Extra 03
20 - 1508 Loop
21 - 011 Loop V2
22 - 16 Ocak
Media Report:
Genre: ambient
Country: Turkey
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits
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