Leif Elggren, Michael Esposito, Emanuel Swedenborg - The Summerhouse (Stockholm) flac mp3 download

============ VITAL WEEKLY ============ number 615 --------------------- week 8 --------------------- MICHEAL ESPOSITO & LEIF ELGGREN & EMANUEL SWEDENBORG - THE SUMMERHOUSE (CD by Firework Edition) The Emanuel Swedenborg mentioned as one of the three performers on this CD lived in the 18th century. He claimed to have contact with angels and spirits on a daily basis, and he noted all his dreams. The scandinavian people love those kind of stories. Leif Elggren and Micheal Esposito went to the summerhouse of Swedenborg (some how I believe all people in Sweden have a summer house by the lake) and recorded sounds there. They are present on this CD along with recordings on an installation at Färgfabriken in Stockholm. They used thirty two iron plates (2x1,3 m), placed over loudspeakers with a contact microphone on top making a low frequency feedback, like a choir. It was called 'Reception'. As with all of Elggren's work it is covered with mystery. One sound piece of fifty three minutes and eighteen seconds of ongoing noise, every now and then interrupted by 'field recordings'. The noise is like a rattle, somehow covered or muffled, like the engine that doesn't get started. It's actually quite a nice CD, quite conceptual, but in all it's minimalism it's also quite enjoyable as a stand alone piece of music. (FdW) Address: http://www.fireworkeditionrecords.com