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KISMET Prikosnovenie 042 CD œ TIMING THE LETTER SEA OF CLOUD DE JA-VU EMBRYO YOUR LONG SHADOW ONCE A LIFETIME TATARSKIY PROLIV A GIRL IN A FIELD total 9 songs 2000 |
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| Kismet is a word of Turkish origin to signify
"fate", and is very rarely used
in the English language. But if our fate wants us to listen to Kismet, then let us consider it as a rare But if our fate wants us to listen to Kismet,then let us consider it as a rare jewel... another beauty in Joj's carreer... The album opens on a very ambient track "Timing". The light electronic beats are like the ticks of a clock. Chako whispers words in her own language thus creating layers of soft light sonorities, to sound unique on the album. The second piece is more nostalgic and could express a call to a lost person. The melodious and elevated vocals are backed by cristalline jinglings and a piano. Then comes "A sea of clouds". The singer seems to be lost and to have lost sight of the known world. Synth, piano, flute and litanic phrasings suggest the image of a wind drifted movement... 4th track is instrumental and the longest on the album. The repetitive synth layers progressively meet sounds of colliding small metal objects.. The whole is like an invitation to contemplate and meditate. This track is like a junction between the 1st part and the 2nd part of the album. Chako is back on track 5, fragile, between speaking and singing, on an impressive mix of harmonium and other soundscapes. Very quiet and luminous moment, like a discovery. Track 6 opens on a piano melody, and carries on to a very Asian fragility, where voice and piano become utterers of a same language. Still very soft and contemplative. Sounscapes become dreamscapes on track 7. This dream is luminous and quiet, and contains cristalline sounds, endless sparks here and there. Based on an evolutive form, Chako's moanings become less and less distant, a second singing (harmonic technique (?)) comes progressively with the sound of the wind as if the whole was slowly coming towards us. Perhaps the deepest and most emotional (..?..) track is "Tatarskiy Proliv". It is constituted by a mixture of a one note layer and quiet flutes. Then, like a litany, Chako unfolds the story of this post war feeling. Between sadness and hope, we are left to contemplate and ponder on our memories. Here the singing technique is new and exceptional, rather high, carrying a messagein the language of the soul... To conclude the album Joj offers to us an older song, "A girl in a field". Less ethereal yet quite impalpable, the music is made of flutes and ritual sounds. Chako's singing is lesslitanic and more simple but stillvery soft and frail. On the whole, "Kismet", marking a clear step in Joj's musical and above all vocal evolution, can appear as a direct response to "The earth"'s plenitude. Kismet's wish is made under the star of cotemplation and emotion. Between timelessness and immenseland/sound/dreamscapes, "Kismet" questions the causality of our deeds and works on the level of consciousness. In other words: a heaven sent present!!! |
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| written by simon | ||
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