Tracklist
WHRRu | |
Roeiweijk | |
Jimmy Read | |
Bizarph | |
Yoguah | |
Soundshag | |
Ppda | |
Bldrnnr | |
4othu2 | |
Mettrix |
Versions (4)
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DEN 299 | Nadia Struiwigh | WHRRu (CD, Album) | Denovali Records | DEN 299 | Germany | 2018 | Sell This Version | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DEN 299 | Nadia Struiwigh | WHRRu (10xFile, FLAC, Album) | Denovali Records | DEN 299 | 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DEN 299 LP | Nadia Struiwigh | Whrru (2xLP, Album, Bla) | Denovali Records | DEN 299 LP | Germany | 2018 | Sell This Version | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DEN 299 | Nadia Struiwigh | Whrru (2xLP, Album, Ltd, Red) | Denovali Records | DEN 299 | Germany | 2018 | Sell This Version |
anachary
June 25, 2019I often don’t listen to tracks in order, and the 4th track (Bizarph) was beautiful to start with. For the love of guitars, those gentle plucks are so kindly picked up by soft human sounds and the dominant eight bar melody line. The limping and evolving beat that arrives with feather-light hums and vocal work takes me to the turn of the millennium downtempo/trip-hop works of Bonobo, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Madlib, and yes, Boards of Canada But the track is quirky enough to be not close to any of those sounds. It is not dusty and bare, it affords more space, in as much as it is not as committed to the beat and solders a cornucopia of sounds. Track 7, PPDA, was an intriguing composition. The rhythm that arrives with all its minimalist background grandeur evokes a South Asian, Bhangra feel, especially with the snare like hits that sometimes play in reverse. The synths pulsate restlessly and progressively over slowly congealing background of bass hums and drones best characterized as sounds of the void.
The title track, for the love of layered synths, with the glory of organ smears, begins in anticipation. The sustain of delicious dominant notes accentuates the shimmering synths with subtle low ends. All of this disintegrates into overlapping vocal loops that vanish to give way to a horizon of smooth synth tones, that consumes itself with a gulp. I have not heard anything like this before. I want to open a set with this and something from Deru’s 1979. This record is from a musician who could as well make silent films to run with her mixes. But short of that, this vinyl issue is impeccable. It is worth having it in vinyl form.