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excellent buddy congratualtions! ill have to catch up with you again in person and celebrate this one;-) big hugs Luis On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Sjaak Overgaauw <tcplugin@gmail.com> wrote: > POT = Partly of topic.....but this review contains the words "live > looping" ;-) Anyway, I'm very happy with it, looks like I've found the > right direction with the Premonition Factory project and we have to > celebrate it. I've created a special Premonition Factory EP with 4 > tracks which you can download for free. Track 1 and 2 are from the > album "59 Airplanes waiting for New York", track 3 and 4 are from the > new album "The Sense of Time". Enjoy :) > > 1. To those worthy of honour 05:44 > 2. 59 Airplanes waiting for New York 06:58 > 3. The sense of time 07:12 > 4. Dream within a dream 05:49 > > Download link = > http://premonitionfactory.bandcamp.com/album/ep-promo-tracks-free > > Enjoy! :) > > --- > I was really excited when I found the new Premonition Factory album in > my mailbox a few weeks ago. The first album, 59 Airplanes Waiting for > New York, was warmly received here, so then there’s always some > pleasant anticipation for whatever follows after. The anticipation > changed into profound joy, because this is an extremely fine ambient > album that is immediately pleasant to listen to, with loads of deeper > layers to discover after multiple rounds. > > The basics remain the same: Sjaak Overgaauw, the Dutchman in Flanders > who is behind the project, uses live looping techniques on synth to > build his layered ambient sounds, and these recorded improvisations > make up the music on his albums and shows. Compared to the last album, > however, the sound on The Sense of Time is thoroughly refined, > seamlessly blending layers of soft synth waves, drones, piano > melodies, and some rhythm here and there. > > The atmosphere of Premonition Factory I would describe as abstract > ambient: not necessarily reproducing or referring to elements in the > real world, but acting as pure soundforms, and direct aural emotion. > That Overgaauw is able to find a perfect balance in these emotions is > evident here. Darker musical visions can be found on tracks like > “Chasing the Unknown” and “Magic Box”, while bright calm material > features prominently in the gentle opener and the piano-based > “Mediate”. One of the big surprises and obvious highlights of this > album is the title track with its excellent glitchy rhythmic work, but > for the absolute peak of the album is “Darkest Hour Pt. 2″, a > deceptively minimalist track with a melodic progression that brings > tears to my eyes every time I hear it. Not because it reminds me of > anything emotional, but simply because of the pure emotion coming from > the music itself. It is a calmly moving piece that has quickly found > its way into my all time favourite ambient tracks. > > So, there. Heaps of deserved praise for an album that proves you don’t > need to be innovative if you’re just damn good. I’m not going to >waste > time by listing ambient giants that have gone before and obviously > inspired this music. Where some artists impress by pushing musical > boundaries and experimenting, Overgaauw achieves equally stunning > results by mastering a tradition and refining it. Here’s to the next > one! > > -- > Sjaak Overgaauw > http://premonitionfactory.com/ > http://livelooping.be/ > > -- www.luis-angulo.com