Spellewauerynsherde

by Akira Rabelais

Spellewauerynsherde cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 16 August 2004
  • Label: Samadhisound
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 56:35
  • Community rating: 3.73/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Using a bespoke software program he designed himself, the American composer meticulously deconstructs a cassette recording of traditional Icelandic a cappella singing. The algorithmic manipulation stretches and blurs the haunting female vocals into vast, deeply spiritual drone textures, creating a timeless, funereal ambient masterpiece.

Genres

Descriptors: choral, medieval, experimental, electronic, atmospheric, conceptual, diverse, piano, ambient, glitchy, delicate, shimmering

Tracklist

  1. 1382 Wyclif Gen. II. 7 and Spiride in to the Face of Hym an Entre of Breth of Lijf. (6:18)
  2. 1390 Gower Conf. II. 20 I Can Noght Thanne Unethes Spelle That I Wende Altherbest Have Rad. (7:24)
  3. 1440 Promp. Parv. 518/2 Wawyn, Or Waueryn, Yn a Myry Totyr, Oscillo. (6:36)
  4. 1483 Caxton Golden Leg. 208 B/2 He Put Not Away the Wodenes of His Flessh With a Sherde or Shelle. (21:15)
  5. 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 125 Within Which Draw an Other Circle, A Finger Bredth Distant. (0:44)
  6. Gorgeous Curves Lovely Fragments Labyrinthed On Occasions Entwined Charms, A Few Stories At Any Longer Sworn to Gathered from a Guileless Angel and the Hilt Edges of Old Hearts, If They Do in the Guilt of Deep Despondency. (6:09)
  7. 1671 Milton Samson 1122 Add Thy Spear, A Weavers Beam, And Seven-Times-Folded Shield. (8:06)

Credits

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