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| Niton | OSC 18 Video  Niton released on may 11 2015 their amazing album "Tiresias" on Pulver und Asche Records.The swiss-Italian band is now releasing their first hypnotic music video for track OSC 18 Tiresias is Niton's second album. It contains material collected and elaborated in little more than a year; fifteen months of intensive existential and poetic torment for each of the three members. In comparison to their first album, the communal musical attitude has evolved: the forms are more defined, the spaces are diluted, the sequential rhythmics have acquired more prominence, the instrumentation has been amplified through new machines such as, for example, the Theremin (the mellow, silky antenna) or the Memorymoog (the most powerful polyphonic synth). Tiresias is Greek mythological soothsayer who lived for seven years of his life in the body of a woman. When Hera - wife of Zeus - asked him whether sexual pleasures were stronger as a man or as woman, Tiresias replied without hesitation that if the pleasure of love was made up of ten parts, the woman would have nine and the man only one. Furious at his response, she blinded him. Tiresias is the only being to have incarnated the profound opposites. He experienced the unpleasant truth and told it. He overturned the commonplace. Now blinded, he predicted the barren ruins of the human race. Of these ruins, Niton has recorded the sounds. I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives, Old man with wrinkled female breasts, can see At the violet hour, the evening hour that strives Homeward T.S. Eliot, The waste land PRESS QUOTES "...l'une des oeuvres les plus passionnantes de 2015. Écoute obligatoire." Goute mes Disques "Tiresias semble se mouvoir par lui même, poussé par un souffle intrinsèque qui lui sert de nourriture, auto-gestion de spectres microscopiques aux effets macroscopiques, l'infiniment petit tutoyant l'immensément grand, grattant à la porte des cieux pour y pénétrer sans bruit et fracas mais avec l'assurance de l'inusité. Magnétique." Silence and Sound "What emerges here is a bravura sequence of diverse soundscapes which almost cry out for some kind of visual or staged accompaniment of suitably intense form to match the music's powerful presence. Until the day that transpires, listeners will have to remain content with the vibrant, synaesthetically effective images that Niton so ably paint with sound on Tiresias, reaching out towards the depiction of the all-encompassing sublime and the portentously ominous as they do so." Freq "...ce disque a le don de surprendre, l'inattendu est vraiment le maître mot de ce Tiresias." Xsilence "...an enjoyable and captivating trip of minimalistic sound works." Vital Weekly write your comments about the article :: © 2015 Jazz News :: home page |