Label: Unexplained Sounds Group

北欧地下界で活動するベテラン勢が多く参加!!フィールドレコーディング作家Brandon Augerらが参加!!音楽と科学、また芸術形式との関係をコンセプトに、現在進行形の世界のアンダーグラウンド音楽シーンの調査を行なっているイタリアのRaffaele Pezzella。氏のレーベルUnexplained Sounds Groupが展開する人気のV.Aタイトル・シリーズ。現在も精力的に活動している音楽家にフォーカスし新たな現代音楽アンソロジーとして纏め上げたものであり、所謂トラディショナルなものだけではなく、それらに影響され本国にてエレクトロアコースティックやコンピュータミュージック、フィールドレコーディング、サウンドスケープを制作する実験作家をコンパイル。本作は現在のスカンジナビア半島の動向をまとめた音源集。有名無名問わず一曲一曲の完成度が素晴らしい新たなアーカイヴとして提示した濃い一枚。









4 panels Digipack; glass master CD

The electronic music emanating from the Scandinavian region encompasses a vast universe and has a long tradition behind it. In 1964 the electronic music studio EMS in Stockholm opened as a conventional analogue studio, its primary intention being to build the world’s most advanced hybrid studio and to conduct an international research program into sound and sound perception. Since then the Scandinavian electronic music scene has continued to flourish decade upon decade, culminating in the most recent ambient and minimalistic sound shapes. Unexplained Sounds Group, started researching Scandinavian electronic and experimental music in 2015 when it published the Scandinavian experimental underground 015 survey. A second anthology was released 2016, its remit being much wider than the first, and entitled Northern Lights - The Scandinavian experimental 016 survey. Both of them were published in digital format only, but finally a CD edition containing a selection of 12 tracks from those compilations emerges into the light. This is an appropriate tribute to an experimental electronic music scene that is still evolving and growing, and as such the Unexplained Sounds network will continue to chart its ever-expanding boundaries as the future unfolds.

Raffaele Pezzella