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 The CD version of the Mokira album, 'Persona' is out next week. The vinyl was released in a limited edition of 400 copies worldwide this week and is already a best seller att Boomkat. If you wanna buy the vinyl, make sure you order it today: http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=174370" Persona, like the Bergman movie of the same name, is a bit of a masterpiece" Mapsadaisical (Not rated) " Warm, fuzzy tones and textures morph and mutate, creating a hypnotic creation of cuts for those who know how to lose themselves in sound" BPM Magazine (Not rated) " Tilliander has been a pioneer in sound for some time, but here we are invited behind the curtain for the first time." Noripcord (Rated 8/10) " If anything opening number "About Last Step and Scale" more suggests the darkly beautiful ambience of early-'90s Aphex Twin or Seefeel's drumless efforts than, say, Experimental Audio Research. Persona flows from that point forward as a unified piece where each song introduces new elements, such as the stuttering burbles on "Lord, Am I Going Down?" (Meanwhile, "Oscillations and Tremolo" perhaps appropriately proves to be the one full-on tribute to the work of Sonic Boom, the phased rise and fall over almost ten minutes of interwoven parts a glazed piece of electronic psychedelia.) The whole is quite entrancing; if there are now as many drone experimental releases in the world as there are labels big and small to release them, Mokira's great strength lies in his ability to make those new changes per song work against letting Persona simply become background music in a Satie/Eno sense" AMG (Rated 3.5/5) " It's a jarring but deeply compelling diversion point that adds dimension and space to what can only be described as the best realised album in Tilliander's already impressive catalogue" Boomkat (Not rated) " Like Liv Ullmann’s Elisabet in the Bergman film of the same name, Persona finds that the only genuine human expression is that of silence, of resisting the urge to create something wholly new and accepting the humble act of building atop previous achievements with machines developed by others. A big concern of electronic music throughout its history has been that the content will always be determined by the technology and, as a result, bound to its time. Mokira (Andreas Tilliander, another Swede) approaches this problem by reaching back into this history, making something that’s hard to pinpoint on one era or style." Cokemachineglow (Rated 78/100) "Persona starts beautifully with warm waves of sound. As it flows along, breathy, whispery voices emerge, buried, as clanking, delayed, sounds introduce themselves, reminding me of rope smacking against a flagpole on a windy day. As the voices fade and the percussion momentarily drifts away, a slightly distorted, whistling feedback creeps in, only to be once again joined by the clanking in subtle chaos. From here, the music slips to dubby, slowly progressing, percussive jabs." Igloo Magazine (Not Rated) The following review is somewhat my favorite. Thanks for a great laugh, Nayt Keane: " You can perform this experiment on your own, by the way, by repeatedly cupping your ears with your hands, but Mokira does it for ten minutes - beat that! If you're just relaxing at home without loud background noise, this track just reeks of annoyance. Mokira has made a mature-sounding album. It's also pretty: pretty boring. The spark of life is dim. I hear his previous album, Album, is much better, and I'll go find that one. As a fan of ambient music, I believe there are other musicians doing this sort of thing much ********* better.." The Silent Ballet (Rated 4.5/10)
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