Medicina, by Sustainer

Medicina

by Sustainer

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Dotflac Forgotten samples from a bygone era found a new life in the hands of Sustainer.

Sometimes light-hearted, sometimes melancholic, but always full of that old school Romanticism reflected in sepia shades, we can feel the dust slowly lifted from these sound loops humming a last time before meeting the end of their physical time, but reaching a new immortality in the collages of Medicina.

Stephan Mathieu's mastering, an other experimented explorer of these sonic territories, just makes it sublime. Favorite track: Medicina 02.

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	1.	Medicina 01 04:33
	2.	Medicina 02 05:07
	3.	Medicina 03 06:39
	4.	Medicina 04 07:22
	5.	Medicina 05 05:16
	6.	Medicina 06 06:35
	7.	Medicina 07 05:30

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for the digital, lossless formats (flac/aiff/wav) are in a high quality of 24Bit/88.2kHz.

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Date : 10.10.16
Map Point : eilean 48
Color : orange/brown/yellow
Season : autumn
Duration : 41.00 mn
Edition : limited to 130 copies

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Alex Alarcón from Barcelona, composes electronic music under the name Sustainer. Recently he recovered his interest in using and processing acoustic instruments, using old recording devices, found sounds recorded over the years, and amplified objects in his work and he’s trying actually to stay in a non-computer environments. Since 2003, his works have been released in multiple formats on labels such as Italic, Thinner, Room40, Tessellate recordings.

« I started this project in summer 2014 when I used as a sound sources some old recordings that I ́ve been collecting for years, and I still do, more than ever, mainly on vinyl format. It ́s the first time that I use samples on my sound works, but I found interesting to bring to life these sounds from old artists from the 60 ́s and 70 ́s, mainly orchestral composers from muzak, light music, easy listening, elevator music, or whatever they like to call it. These are music styles sometimes discriminated by media and actually forgotten. I can remember the amount of hours I spent as a child listening to these tunes on my parents car stereo, turntable or tape player. So this is a homage to my parents too, because it was one of my first encounters with recorded music.
Step by step, I was dissecting little sound bits from these records with the help from a tiny workstation with onboard multitrack recording and sampler, and then I used my computer for further processing. Also, I used a sampler inside the computer to trigger with a little controller the samples at realtime; almost no midi was involved. I added some field recordings I ́ve been collecting from...including an ascending elevator, too.
the final result is : Medicina. »

Alex Alarcón

www.bohrg.com

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VIDEO : www.vimeo.com/186154311

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released October 10, 2016

Recorded by Alex Alarcón Guillén, Barcelona, Spain, between summer 2014-2016.

Mastered by Stephan Mathieu at Schwebung Mastering Artwork Photography by Unknown Author
 Inside photography by Mathias Van Eecloo  
Design by Rémi Verdier

thanks: mathias, gemma, stephan, and everyone who cared me while doing this album

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