ARTEMIY ARTEMIEV & PETER FROHMADER
"Transfiguration"
(2002)
When I found out that Artemiev and
Frohmader were working together I wasn't surprised at all, it all made perfectly sense to
me! Peter Frohmader is known for playing his guitars and basses over layers of keyboards,
long lush synth chords and sequences but never throwing away the beat. This is what
happened in this case too, but it sounds like the German composer has also added more
keyboards, to those already laid down by his Russian companion, thus widening the rich
sound palette that "Transfiguration" is based by and originated from.
Considering that it took the couple almost an entire year to achieve this, it sounds like
they never met and instead mailed each other the tracks some way until done. This is their
second collaborative work (after "Space Icon", from two years ago). The five
tracks are numbered and vary in length, ranging from a little over five minutes and a half
to almost half an hour. Detailed and outlined beat structures and sytnh/synth-bass lines
make for an easier approach to Artemiev's musical art. A pleasing experience that combines
electronics, atmospherics, rock, ambient, fusion, experimental music and more, all nicely
driven by rhythms and sound sequences. Considering how many genres converge in
"Transfiguration" it is probably safer to just say that it represents a very
good example of what electroacoustic avant-garde, two terms often used to describe
Electroshock releases, is or can be.
(c) Marc Urselli-Schaerer / Chain
D.L.K.
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