Pawn - Above The Winter Oaks (2010)
Pawn - Above The Winter Oaks (2010)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 340 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 158 MB | Covers (15 MB) included
Genre: Ambient | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: The Land of (LND011), CDr
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 340 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 158 MB | Covers (15 MB) included
Genre: Ambient | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: The Land of (LND011), CDr
From the twinkling glockenspiel that opens "Above The Winter Oaks", it’s clear that Japanese sound-artist Hideki Umezawa has set out to construct a shimmering world of floating textures. Sounds of breathing sift delicately around sustained reverb-y tones; metallic sounds crackle between the speakers as isolated vibraphone sketches outline ambiguous chords. There’s little sense of harmonic gravity: the music exists as suspended drones, creating a meditative "OM" of sound that empties your head.Tracklist:
Pawn’s greatest strength is its sense of restraint - an ability to create a space that unfolds just barely fast enough to keep you intrigued without revealing too much too quickly. As slow and seemingly minimal as the music is, every note sounds deliberate, every ambient texture purposefully manipulated. Acoustic guitar chords sound pointilistically around held keyboard notes and subtle electronics. Crunching leaves, birds, and voices emerge imperceptibly through the textures before sinking back into quiet washes of sound. Glass-harp, handbells, and harmonica bring to mind the sounds of dusty toy instruments discovered in an attic and lend a sense of antiquity to the music.
As the album’s title implies, the music conjures images of a quiet winter forest. The mallet percussion sound like delicate wind chimes; the bowed glass-harp like icy air moving between trees. The volume never rises above the hush of a quiet evening. Delicate sounds fade in and out of the textures seamlessly and imperceptibly. "Grund (Bottom Of Bottle)" floats largely on a single held note for over 7 minutes, with constantly changing (but barely noticeable) textural densities. In "Wild Owls," a sea of static gradually overwhelms ghostly reversed tones and wind sounds until only white noise remains. As a result, the few abrupt changes that do occur over the course of the music - dissonant bell-like hits that begin ¾ through "Winter Came Again," the crunching metallics that break the opening lull of "Snow Piles" - are particularly powerful.
"Above The Winter Oaks" can be a bit trying at times - particularly when taking in the album as a whole - but the longer you listen, the more nuances you discover. When you abandom preconceptions and absorb it as ambient textures/sound art, the album’s colors take you to a sedate and really beautiful corner of your head.
01. Snow Piles
02. Winter Came Again
03. Fallen
04. Bottom Of Bottle
05. Above The Winter Oaks
06. Snow Piles (remix by My Fun)
07. Winter Came Again (remix by Off The Sky)
08. Fallen (remix by The Green Kingdom)
09. Grund (Bottom Of Bottle) (remix by Steinbruchel)
10. Wild Owls (Above The Winter Oaks) (remix by Billy Gomberg)
Total time: 01:00:43
Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 5 from 4. May 2009
EAC extraction logfile from 11. November 2010, 16:23
Pawn / Above The Winter Oaks
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Defeat audio cache : Yes
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Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
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Command line compressor : C:\Program Files\FLAC\flac.exe
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Copy OK
No errors occurred
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No tracks could be verified as accurate
You may have a different pressing from the one(s) in the database
End of status report
EAC extraction logfile from 11. November 2010, 16:23
Pawn / Above The Winter Oaks
Used drive : Optiarc DVD RW AD-5260S Adapter: 1 ID: 1
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 48
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Installed external ASPI interface
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 256 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files\FLAC\flac.exe
Additional command line options : -8 -V %s
TOC of the extracted CD
Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
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1 | 0:00.00 | 5:55.42 | 0 | 26666
2 | 5:55.42 | 5:49.35 | 26667 | 52876
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4 | 20:27.73 | 5:43.53 | 92098 | 117875
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6 | 30:44.39 | 4:44.69 | 138339 | 159707
7 | 35:29.33 | 5:53.01 | 159708 | 186183
8 | 41:22.34 | 4:32.06 | 186184 | 206589
9 | 45:54.40 | 7:54.15 | 206590 | 242154
10 | 53:48.55 | 6:54.15 | 242155 | 273219
Range status and errors
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Filename C:\Music\Pawn - Above The Winter Oaks\Pawn - Above The Winter Oaks.wav
Peak level 99.6 %
Range quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 13762ED9
Copy CRC 13762ED9
Copy OK
No errors occurred
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No tracks could be verified as accurate
You may have a different pressing from the one(s) in the database
End of status report
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Thanks to Буба Стеккер