Sunday, August 2, 2009

Yui Onodera & The Beautiful Schizophonic - Radiance



"Few composers of modern music produce works that are continually awe-inspiring, captivating, and original as Yui Onodera and The Beautiful Schizophonic. Their collaborative work 'Radiance', offers an absolute experience of tenderly-crafted, hidden elegance, audible and pure instrumentation, and field recording realism. 'Radiance' breathes with lightness, and most importantly, majesty."
Will Long (Celer)

This blog wrote about Yui Onodera more than a year ago, enthusiastically reviewing "Suisei".
As regards Jorge Mantas (the man behind "The Beautiful Schizophonic"), instead, after "Musicamorosa" in 2007, two new releases this year: a solo work on Crónica ("Erotikon", out in July) and this collaboration with Yui, published by Basses Frequences, French label which features a remarkable, high-level catalogue of drone/ambient music.

"Radiance" moves through five tracks, slightly different each other, where personal intuitions and attitudes of the two artists converge and produce an extraordinary amalgam: not simple to distinguish one contribution from another.
"A Stationary Place", the first piece, opens with a three minutes recording of a rolling plate. Then a deep droning sound intersects it, increasing and dominating it, as long as a persistent crackling goes with the obscure melody.
"On Air" contains melancholic sequences, structured on suave, entwined textures combined with a piano.
“Vista” consists of a repeated pattern as background, and other delicate environmental recordings which lay upon it. This track is perhaps the most radiant of the disc.
“Urban Forms” is primarily conceived in The Beautiful Schizophonic’s style, with an enchanting piano score melted into voices and other intrusions coming from an urban context.
The last piece is also the longest, “Summer Snow”, about fifteen minutes which instil a sense of levity, projecting an aura of peacefulness.

An intense, highly atmospheric work, where two artists in a perfect state of grace have been able to express the best of themselves. Great pleasure and inspiration in listening to it, "Radiance" must be numbered among the finest albums of its genre.

Note: the cover image of the disc is another tangible sign of Dani's greatness.

Label: Basses Frequences
Cat. #: BF15
Format: CD
Release date: 2009

Tracklisting:
01 - A Stationary Piece (08:40)
02 - On Air (04:46)
03 - Vista (05:04)
04 - Urban Form (05:26)
05 - Summer Snow (14:42)

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The Beautiful Schizophonic’s discography:

Hyperblue.Hydrophonics
















Label: Mystery Sea
Cat. #: MS25
Format: CD-R
Release date: 2005

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Product 06
















w/ Pawel Grabowski, James Eck Rippie, Paulo Raposo

Label: Crónica
Cat. #: Crónica 023~2005
Format: CD
Release date: 2005

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Untitled
















Label: Crónica
Cat. #: Crónicast 010
Format: File, Mp3
Release date: 2006



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Musicamorosa
















Label: Crónica
Cat. #: Crónica 029~2007
Format: CD
Release date: 2007

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Live At Atlantic Waves 2007
















w/ Gintas K, Pal

Label: Crónica
Cat. #: Crónicast 024
Format: File, Mp3
Release date: 2008



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Live At Passos Manuel
















Label: Crónica
Cat. #: Crónicast 027
Format: File, Mp3
Release date: 2008



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The Lone Drone
















Label: Crónica
Cat. #: Crónicast 048
Format: File, Mp3
Release date: 2009



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Radiance
















w/ Yui Onodera

Label: Basses Frequences
Cat. #: BF15
Format: CD
Release date: 2009

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Erotikon
















Label: Crónica
Cat. #: Crónica 044~2009
Format: CD
Release date: 2009

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Night Blossom
















w/ Yui Onodera

Label: Whereabouts Records
Cat. #: WHACD-7
Format: CD
Release date: 12/2011

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Belkiss

















Label: Dynamophone Records
Cat. #:
Format: CD
Release date: 10/2012

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L’Atelier Des Filles

















Label: Anywave
Cat. #:
Format: CD
Release date: 05/2016

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The Beautiful Schizophonic's tracks appear on:
  • VV.AA. - Symptom Of Thisease (2004, Thisco, Thisk.18) tracks: Her Heart Is A Room Full Of Drones, Soul Scanner, Girl In Ecstatic Peace
  • VV.AA. - Essays On Radio: Can I Have 2 Minutes Of Your Time? (2005, Crónica, Crónica 020~2005) track: A Radiophonic Fairytale
  • VV.AA. - Essays On Radio: Can I Have 2 Minutes Of Your Time? (2005, Crónica, Crónica 021~2005) track: A Radiophonic Fairytale (w/ Ran Slavin)
  • VV.AA. - Atlantic Waves 2007 Festival Sampler (2007, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation/Wire Magazine, CGFCD107-2) track: Awake Eternal
  • VV.AA. - Mus*****c (2008, Crónica, Crónica 032~2008) track: Music For Lonely People
  • VV.AA. - Crónica L (2010, Crónica, Crónica 050~2010) track: Rêve General (w/ Tu M’)
  • VV.AA. - One Minute For The Stars (2011, SEM Label, SEM 011) track: omftStars
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Yui Onodera’s discography:

here

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Latest releases on Basses Frequences:

Elementaural Research Project - Elementality
















Cat. #: BF13
Format: CD
Release date: 2009

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VV.AA. - Elementality Revisited
















Cat. #: BF14
Format: CD-R
Release date: 2009

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Nicholas Szczepanik - The Chiasmus
















Cat. #: BF16
Format: CD
Release date: 2009

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Andreas Brandal - A History Of Labyrinths
















Cat. #: BF17
Format: CD-R
Release date: 2009

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Mark Bradley - Absolution
















Cat. #: BF18
Format: CD-R
Release date: 2009

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Locrian - Rain Of Ashes
















Cat. #: BF19
Format: CD
Release date: 11/2009

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Aidan Baker - Blue Figures
















Cat. #: BF20
Format: CD
Release date: 11/2009

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Lunar Miasma - Crystal Covered
















Cat. #: BF21
Format: CD
Release date: 02/2010

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Locrian - Territories
















Cat. #: BF23
Format: LP
Release date: 03/2010

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deAnimator - ((Thirty Three And One Third) Degrees) Per Second
















Cat. #: BF24
Format: CD-R
Release date: 03/2010

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Nicholas Szczepanik - Dear Dad
















Cat. #: BF22
Format: CD
Release date: 04/2010

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ThisQuietArmy - Aftermath
















Cat. #: BF25
Format: CD
Release date: 05/2010

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Aidan Baker - I Will Always And Forever Hold You In My Heart And Mind
















Cat. #: BF26
Format: CD
Release date: 05/2010
Notes: Reissue

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Celer - Panoramic Dreams Bathed In Seldomness
















Cat. #: BF27
Format: CD
Release date: 07/2010

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Pleq - Good Night
















Cat. #: BF29
Format: 10"
Release date: 09/2010

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Celer - Weavings Of A Rapid Disenchantment
















Cat. #: BF28
Format: 10"
Release date: 09/2010

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Thisquietarmy + Yellow6 - Death
















Cat. #: BF31A
Format: LP
Release date: 12/2010

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VV.AA. - Winter Leads To Spring
















Cat. #: BFSI04
Format: CD-R + DVD
Release date: 12/2010

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Pleq - Ballet Mechanic
















Cat. #: BF32
Format: CD
Release date: 01/2011

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Messebasse - III: Ame
















Cat. #: BF30
Format: CD
Release date: 01/2011

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Hoor-paar-Kraat - The Eureka Tapes
















Cat. #: BF33
Format: CD
Release date: 01/2011

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Jérémie Mathes - Gjöll
















Cat. #: BF35
Format: CD
Release date: 03/2011

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Peter Wright - Let's Hide Under The House Until They're Gone
















Cat. #: BF34
Format: LP
Release date: 04/2011

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Thisquietarmy + Yellow6 - Valley
















Cat. #: BF31B
Format: LP
Release date: 06/2011

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Aidan Baker With Kevin Micka - Green Figures
















Cat. #: BF38
Format: CD
Release date: 09/2011

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Larkian & Yellow6 - Offtempo
















Cat. #: BF37
Format: CD
Release date: 10/2011

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Duane Pitre - ED09 (For String Ensemble): Live At The Stone
















Cat. #: BF36
Format: LP
Release date: 11/2011

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Julien Demoulin & IA - The Bay
















Cat. #: BF40
Format: CD
Release date: 02/2012

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VV.AA. - Particule Arises
















Cat. #: BFSI05
Format: CD-R
Release date: 02/2012

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Tamagawa - Lives Vol.2
















Cat. #: BF41
Format: CD-R
Release date: 02/2012

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Wastelanders - Cosmic Despair
















Cat. #: BF39
Format: CD
Release date: 02/2012

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Thisquietarmy + Yellow6 - Death Valley
















Cat. #: BF31CD
Format: 2xCD
Release date: 03/2012

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Stratosphere - Dreamscape
















Cat. #: BF42
Format: CD
Release date: 04/2012

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Asva & Philippe Petit - Empires Should Burn...
















Cat. #: BF43CD / BF43LP
Format: CD / LP
Release date: 07/2012

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Maninkari - Continuum Sonore
















Cat. #: BF44
Format: CD
Release date: 07/2012

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Links:
Yui Onodera
The Beautiful Schizophonic
Basses Frequences