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Razen - The Night Receptionist
Label
Meakusma
Catalogue
MEA024
Eancode
8718723100830
Format
CD
Release Date
WK 30, 23 Jul 2018
Type
world exclusive
Stock
Out of stock

Razen

The Night Receptionist

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The Brussels-based Razen make experimental and minimal music with unconventional instruments, focusing on tuning, intonation and the use of intervals. Their The Night Receptionist album sees them working again with performance artist and poet, videographer and self-portrait painter Bryan Lewis Saunders. Recorded during a two-week residency at QO2 in Brussels in 2016, The Night Receptionist employs a just intonation system based on the tonality diamond of Harry Partch. The instruments of choice were sarangi, double bass, recorders, shawm, monochord, santur and a selection of hommels. Easily the most monochrome and minimal music the band has ever recorded, with a timbral effect that is dreamy and twilight-like, Bryan Lewis Saunders' voice adds a layer of hushed disconnection and disenchantment, recounting the story of a failed gymnast turned night receptionist, wishing for acts of anti-gravity and catching salamanders. It is music for the early hours of the morning, music that explores the undercurrent of thought processes on the threshold of deep sleep. CD comes w/ 8pg. booklet on 160 gr. paper 1. The Night Receptionist Pt. I (21:04) 2. The Night Receptionist Pt. II (07:03) 3. The Night Receptionist Pt. III. (16:14) 4. The Night Receptionist Pt. IV. (14:56)