[R-N 123] Kangding Ray – OR CD (Album) 2011

Kangding Ray – OR
Label: Raster-Noton
Catalog#: r-n 123
Format: CD, Album
Country: Germany
Released: May 2011
Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract, IDM

Mastered By – Andreas (Lupo) Lubich*
Voice, Lyrics By – Magne Mostue* (tracks: 3, 4, 7)
Written-By, Producer – David Letellier
All tracks written and produced in Berlin 2010-2011.

Tracklist:
1 Athem 5:06
Words By – Hakim Bey
Voice – Rose Tizane Merrill
2 Mojave 4:16
3 Odd Sympathy 6:23
Percussion – Achille Farese
4 Pruitt Igoe (OR Version) 4:04
5 Or 5:54
Keyboards [Progressive Keys] – Ben Frost
6 Mirrors 2:46
7 Coracoid Process 5:29
Drums – Yacine Djeradi
8 En Amaryllis Jour 5:02
9 Leavaila Scheme 5:42
10 Monsters 2:27
Voice – Rose Tizane Merrill
11 La Belle 6:25

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After the Pruitt Igoe E.P, Kangding Ray returns with his third album for raster-noton, pushing further his explorations on the edge of digital and analog sounds. With OR, Kangding Ray continues to blur the borders between experimental and bass music, and brings his signature sound to another level, somewhere at the darkest fringe of club culture.

With the massive metallic beats of « athem », the frightening distorded waves of « Mojave », the elevated groove of « Odd Sympathy », the modulated guitar walls of « Leavaila Scheme », or the low-bitrate Everest of « La Belle », KR creates deep atmospheres, loaded with echoes of collapsing economies, dysfunctional political systems, and corporate alienation.

In an abstract manner, OR depicts the desillusions of modern civilizations, while initiating a positive reflection on crisis as a creative state.

OR (« gold » in french), as the only chemical element that seems to keep its value for eternity, refers to the cult of endless consumption and the absurdity of fluctuating currency valuations, while in english, as a logical operator or grammatical conjunction, OR represents the possibility of another choice, an « inclusive disjunction » which suggests that there might be another answer, a different path to follow.

Noticeable inputs have been provided by Ben Frost, who composed a keyboard line for « Or », Rose Tizane Merrill who lend her voice to the anarchist poem « Monsters », and Magne Mostue who wrote the words and sang on « Coracoid Process » as well as the vocal version of the prophetic electronic mantra « Pruitt Igoe ».


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