Digitonal - Save your light for darker days

Desde o seu primeiro álbum 23 things fall apart, lançado em 2002, que o projecto Digitonal me anda a soar nos ouvidos. Em 2006, lançam o álbum 2002 - 2006: A sampler. Este registo contém alguns temas originais e algumas remisturas feitas pelo projecto. Em 2008 é a vez de Save your light for darker day. Enamorado por bandas como os Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin ou Orbital, Andy resolve então avançar com este projecto em 1997, a quem se juntou o violinista Samy Bishai em 2001. A sonoridade do projecto combina uma orquestração neo-clássica com batidas electrónicas, resultando uma espécie de downtempo glitch cinematográfico e ambiente. Recomendado e bem! Daqui e sobre o álbum, o seguinte:

"An IDM survivor and 65daysofstatic collaborator, Digitonal's Andy Dobson has in recent years moved on a great deal from his early days. Having evolved from the output released via Toytonic and Seed, the Digitonal sound is a far more ambitious combination of programming and live instrumentation. In fact, the combination of neo-classical string orchestration and electronic beats brings to mind the likes of Olafur Arnalds or Efterklang, particularly on the exquisite 'Silver Poetry' which gets this balance just right. Not only are the sequenced elements handled with all the requisite accomplishment, but the pristine recording standards of the string parts confirm that Digitonal can work the studio in a more traditional fashion too. As expertly ccomposed and executed as it may be, there's always a danger that Save Your Light Far Darker Days could end up repeating itself, pulling off the same microbeats vs. string ensemble maneuvers over and over again, but the album turns out to be rather more dynamic than that, delving back into old-school electronics reminiscent of Herrmann & Kleine, or perhaps the lighter end of Arovane's material on 'A Lighter Touch', and laying down acoustic guitar melodies plundered straight from the baroque-era on 'Gone'."

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