Corbel Stone Press
Ar : Wolf Notes (UK,2009)****
I do not know the term “Wolf Notes” yet. These are stronger resonances to certain notes due to the limitations of the equipment, especially on string instruments like the violin, something which should be avoided because they dominate their sounds without choice of expressing something different. This album project probably plays with the term with the idea to create a sort of overtone string music where some natural sounds, rhythms or tones keep on hanging in the air restricting the area of the composition. The strings follow some chord patterns based upon the overtone effects they create. After some meditating intro of 6 minutes, the next part has a voice lead improvisation on top, recorded rather loudly to the music, singing a repetitive simple tune with resonating tones and strings. This slowly evolves into the background composition, while the singing tune does not evolve much and reduces it to something simple, this I think could have been mixed a bit better on the whole. But in a way this still works, and the track becomes thoroughly a song improvisation. By the next part, “Decline”, the tune returns like in a daydreaming memory, while the minimal overtone composition evolves to something with interesting differences, with the voice once returning to the tune, and with the instrumentation vibrating or evolving very naturally, resonating freely, with quietly fading-out-in-space bells sounds and other resonances on the following track, “Rest”. The last track starts with resonating strings and rubbing tones, as another natural rhythm series of tones. In this rhythm higher tones appear, perfectly mixed in this time, of two overdub voices on the highest notes, like a curing presence of a voice. This is so much harmony seeking, that the over 8 minutes of this last track seemed to have been over before you knew it. In between an acid folk improvisation and new music.
