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Review: 'Noto, Alva'
'Xerrox Vol 3'   

-  Album: 'Xerrox Vol 3' -  Label: 'Raster-Noton'
-  Genre: 'Ambient' -  Release Date: '30th March 2015'-  Catalogue No: 'R-N 159'

Our Rating:
Smooth, cinematic swathes of ambience are ruptured with crackles and whirrs and static noise disturbance. Tentative bass notes step creepingly across soft swathes of sonic mist.
Long, broad, soft sonic brushstrokes provide a lightness that contrast with the rumbling, sonorous bass frequencies that underpin the wide soundscapes that define the third album in Alva Noto’s ‘Xerrox’ series.

The contrasts build a certain tension, which is heightened by crackles, scrapes and static. Swelling grumbles of dissonance and growling metallics break the tranquillity of space, harsh sounds in a soft ambient universe create disquiet and an unsettling sense in the gut. As with its predecessors, ‘Xerrox Vol 3’ explores deep textures and forges vast expanses that funnel through infinite emptiness, to transport the listener far beyond terra firma and into places unknown.

Alva Noto Online
  author: Christopher Nosnibor

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Noto, Alva - Xerrox Vol 3