Doepfer

Hello all,

first the review:

"A sound wave, dark and droning hops in opening of
Beneath Fear. A 
variegated 
intro, which lets emerge a fine piano melody, stiff in
a dense sound 
fauna. 
This soft tune shares its harmonies with a cloud of
tonalities as 
varied as 
the fear can have its reasons; flutes, whistling synth
with the 
melodious 
set of themes, percussions hopping and jerking in a
light and 
lugubrious 
environment. If the tempo is of equal appearance, it
becomes more 
implosive 
in the end, hammering the rhythm with the force of
fear. Interesting? 
Of 
course! Parallel Worlds, or Greek musician Bakis
Sirros, presents a 
totally 
awesome title in Obsessive Surrealism; the perfect
fusion between EM 
and 
electronica.
A world of rich sound textures and disconcerting
tempos, which are 
moulded 
perfectly to the sound effects and samplings
meticulously proportioned 
by 
Bakis Sirros. This defender of analogical sonorities
create thus an 
extraordinary effect of richness to juxtaposed
dimensions, as in a 
parallel 
world, which fills with wonder and which changes many
data in a musical 
world where the sound machines don?t have borders.
This gives additional languorous effects on titles
like Different 
Pathways 
and the aggressive Into the Caves of the Mind where
the ingenuous lead 
lines 
are absorbed by sound effects that propagate an
opposite rhythm. An 
incredible and subtle moulding, as if my invisible
clone would go in 
front 
of me and absorb me while passing... I mould in him
and am his forms. 
Completely brilliant. These strokes of genius
pullulate on Obsessive 
Surrealism, of the avant-gardism publisher DIN
Records, which 
specializes in 
the Contemporary Electronic Music. With its vaporous
gas jets, Empty 
Human 
Cells presents a static intro. Gradually, a circular
tempo is install 
supported on deform bass and percussive, if not
hammering, sound 
effects 
which flies, whereas environment becomes intriguing,
on short symphonic 
layers. With a title as striking as Increasing
Complexity, we expect an 
insane swirl. But we have instead a small islands
beat, with 
xylophonists 
percussions. The beauty of this track is this
distortional line of 
electronic percussions, which is moulded to a suave
and flowing tempo. 
A 
beautiful throbbing tempo wakes up Reflective senses.
Slow, like a 
hypnotic 
pulsation, a fat and round sequence oscillates through
synthetic pads 
that 
float gently, on a more and more hopping sequence. A
strange cascade, 
to 
strings synths, crosses this bouncing movement which
takes a form of 
undulating jazz with bewitching layers and very
effective percussions. 
Whereas Mindmists makes us visit the corridors as
deviating as Empty 
Human 
Cells, with more variances in the rhythms, Pale Yellow
Sky is a 
beautiful 
meeting piano/cello, in a lounge environment of
amplified percussions. 
Still, the tempo is solitary and is carved around
sound effects and 
samplings. Aggressive and tasty, Distracted strikes us
full whip with a 
heavy electronic approach, as if Ramp would have built
this movement. A 
powerful title which is an absolute synthetic
effervescence, in a loud 
ambiance, bordering Mark Shreeve and Ramp limits.
Still on the upbeat, 
Crying Spells has the look of its title. An intense
paranoiac bolero, 
with 
unpleasant choirs on satanic pulsations.

What an opus! From the first to the last key, I was
struck by the 
musical 
approach of Parallel Worlds on Obsessive Surrealism,
which gives me the 
same 
impact as Brian Eno with Nerve Net. Everywhere,
samplers and sound 
effects 
paper the parts length into broad, over sizing the
structures, all in 
their 
giving an artistic depth to the astonishing paradox.
Very good, very 
refreshing, we perceive the parallelism intrusion with
an amazing 
subtlety, 
signs of a perfect symbiosis. (Rating: 5 out of 6)"
AVAILABLE at: http://www.din.org.uk/  

http://www.gutsofdarkness.com/god/objet.php?objet=9550
Sylvain from Quebec, Canada
Guts Of Darkness: The French Website of Dark, Ambient
& Experimental 
Music
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now, the Machines used in this album:
Doepfer A100 modular, Analogue Systems RS-Integrator
modular, Technosaurus System D modular, modified EMS
VCS-3 (x2), ARP 2600, Odyssey, Roland System 100,
System 100m, modified Oberheim 2-voice, Korg MS50,
MS20, SQ10, Trident, PE1000, Analogue Solutions
Concussor modular, modified TR606, Nord modular,
JP8000, Microwave XT, MS2000R, S750, Emax 2, Korg ES1,
Roland Space Echo, Korg SE500, additional sound
manipulators.


best regards,    :-)
Bakis.



Bakis Sirros - Parallel Worlds / Interconnected / Memory Geist
[Doepfer_a100] group owner
http://www.parallel-worlds-music.com
http://www.myspace.com/parallelworldsmusic
http://www.myspace.com/interconnectedmusic
http://www.DiN.org.uk
http://www.shimarecords.co.uk
http://www.rubber.gr
Athens-Greece


 
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