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| Hemel (For KM Krebs) | format: online release - released: 2006 | label: No Type Go check out this online release
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This new work by Jos Smolders is part of his “beeld-kleur” (image-color) series, specifically aimed at “pictorial music” or repesentative music, as opposed to his usually non-figurative compositions. Hemel aims at a connection between a glossy and saturated outside world, and a more secretive — and furthermore spiritual — inner sanctum. |
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| REVIEWS: “Hemel” ( ‘sky’ or ‘heaven’ in Dutch) is part of a recent trilogy of No Type releases. Consisting of a single sixteen-minute track, “Hemel” pays homage to composer K. M. Krebs who releases electronic music under his own name and, also, as 833-45. K. M. Krebs has a forte for creating electronic music using several mediums from field recordings to captured radio signals to purely computer/software generated sounds, and he also has a special gift for juxtaposing opposites in his music - concrete vs. abstract, material vs. spiritual, organic vs. synthesized etc. With “Hemel”, Jos Smolders puts forth a potent composition that both encapsulates and reflects the methods, sounds, and abilities of K. M. Krebs. “Hemel” is a well thought out and meticulously sequenced collection of sounds made up of, among other things, terse startling bursts of noise, brief interludes of near silence, slightly discordant strummed guitar, melancholy chords, high frequency hiss, rhythms made from the sizzle of static, found sounds, abstract percussion, metallic noises, and distant radio voices EARLabs | Larry Johnson |
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