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Kangding Ray
Automne Fold
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Special Interest, Pop

Track Listings (14) - Disc #1
1. Konstruktiv
2. Automne Fold
3. Downshifters
4. The Distance
5. A Protest Song
6. Apn?e - Kangding Ray, Cannon, Andrew
7. Idle
8. Quarante
9. Altiz
10. Parallel
11. World Within Words
12. Epoque
13. Apn?e, Pt. 2
14. Palisades

CD Details

All Artists: Kangding Ray
Title: Automne Fold
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Raster Music
Original Release Date: 1/1/2008
Re-Release Date: 7/22/2008
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Special Interest, Pop
Styles: Electronica, Techno, Experimental Music, Dance Pop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 4260115990948

Synopsis

Album Description

Following his highly successful debut Stabil, Kangding Ray (David Letellier) releases his second full-length record on Raster-Noton, entitled Automne Fold. With this release, Letellier has evolved from the quiet, pristine flow of his debut record to sounds that are raw, dark and organic. Pulsating rhythms become lost within walls of saturated strings, words are spoken over bowed acoustic guitars, and analog synths collide with urban field recordings. Vocals are a central theme throughout the record. Treated as raw material, like any other sound, the voice operates as beat, speaks melodies or sets themes. In some moments, Automne Fold retains the emotional simplicity of traditional song structures, where message and image come together, but also manages radical abstract textures, when tracks morph in closed forms of static sounds. Automne Fold is an instrumental record, an album of 14 "folded" tracks, and a cinematic journey between the senses and the groove.

CD Reviews

Headphone Commute Review

Headphone Commute | 08/01/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"An amazing array of releases from Raster-Noton can drain any serious collector's wallet. My latest search includes the twelve super rare twenty-minute monthly releases titled 20' to 2000, and I highly doubt that I'll be able to score it for anything less than a thousand bucks. Oh well... So instead I'll give myself a present of Kangding Ray's sophomore release, Automne Fold. And the album more than satisfies my experimental, organic, and dark rhythmic cravings. Kangding Ray is an alias of Berlin based David Letellier who creates synthetic, glitchy, and yet very musical compositions of analog tones, micro-programmed beats, and digital errors. Letellier's musical experience includes being a guitarist and a drummer for a band with rock and jazz influences. Stacking against his electronic music design is his diploma in architecture - perhaps Letellier erects and demolishes soundscapes in the same way. The sound of Kangding Ray is not as minimal as the usual roster of Raster-Noton (e.g. CoH, Ø, and the label owner, Carsten Nicolai). It is still experimental, super intelligent, yet at the same time very listenable - I found Alva Noto's Xerrox Vol. 1 conceptually very fascinating, but for some reason the album did not remain in my rotations. Kangding Ray, on the other hand, seems to fit more along his contemporaries, like Hecq, Subheim, Kattoo and Murcof. There are even lyrics in some of the "songs". Perhaps Automne Fold will create a gateway into the label's catalogue for listeners with a less sensitive ear. Be sure to pick up Kangding Ray's 2006 release on Raster-Noton, titled Stabil. Highly recommended. Makes my Best of 2008 list so far..."