atmospherically dense night-cruising through the subconsicous of the hearing sou
author: Peter Sauer (WDR5 Radio, MZ Newspaper)
"Please step onboard"! RESONATOR invites you to atmospherically-dense night-cruisings through the subconsicous of the hearing-souls: part soundtrack to a John Carpenter movie, part neo-folkloristic, part bizarre-adventurous.
The technical brilliance of the sound is convincing and the multi-facetted sound is up to par with productions by the likes of a certain John Cage, the more recent Talk Talk or a David Sylvian.
Once you manage to widen your horizon, the borders between known experiences of listening blur and give way to a new dimension.
"Red Room Diner" recommends itself as a perfect mood-image of a Philipp Glass for the 21st century.
The album is a sound-carpet, captivating you in the best sense, and even though it needs your attention entirely -- the unconventional experience will be rewarding by enabling you to look over the rim of your plate of the marinade charts and mainstream and add some Crème for taste and strength.
Take 4 [Fjords] is bound to become a hit, by demonstrating Resonator's strengths as kraftwerk-esque successors to Tangerine Dream. Keep going like this!
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Music of a slow creeping kind
author: Sascha Kösch (AKA Bleed, from de:bug magazine)
After the EP release on the same label, this is the followup as an album, and Resonator's world of heavy beats, dark sceneries, french allegories and confusing-seducing things of all kings somehow remains the same but seems a lot more varied and shows other sides that manage to make the music's density graspable in spite of the accordean. Music of a slow creeping kind (like freshly cooked tar made of cinnamon) that you need to grow accustomed to.
BLEED **** (four out of five points)
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Unique project between dark ambient and soundtracking
author: Markus Weingärtner, TiP Mag, Berlin
Unique one-woman-one-man-project, with a remarkably professional style between dark ambient and soundtracking for fictitious films.
With a lightness introduced by the use of non-trendy instruments such as the accordean, you don't have to ask Resonator to sudenly switch to full "Lost-Highway-Gear", for them to create an atmosphere where you don't want to be left home alone. Fans of bands like Coild will truely rejoice.
** (two points, their secondbest rating, for "reliably good") MPW (Markus Weingärtner) in TIP Nr. 07/04 25.03.-07.04.2004)
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Dreamlike musical camerapans -- the images linger, even without the silver scree
author: Wolfgang A Müller (Intro Mag, MZ Newspaper)
"Intelligence requires countermeasures" - is Resonator's motto. That doesn't mean people should become stupid but conveys the idea that a head free from the ballast of theory is easier to get grooving.
A visit to the "Red Room Diner" kicks up the imagination-quotient by a giant notch immediately.
It's some pastiche, some amazing synthesis of different musical styles, but most of all it's such a great and direct experience.
Whispering and silenced sounds like from one of the rooms next door (there is nine of them altogether), each of those rooms with a tennant, an arcane secret, a story without words behind all those doors.
Anja Kreysing and Kai Niggemann surround the listener with acoustically moved/moving mood-pictures. Dark electronic soundscapes at times, into which the accordeon in a musette fashion -- a soullike narrative voice -- adds little melodic motifs.
Every now and then samples, sounds from conversations, surprising noises enter and buzz about like flies around a lamp.
After their silent film soundtrack for Nosferatu a few years ago, the Münster-based duo now proves with their debut-album filled with dreamlike musical camerapans how images can linger -- even without the silver screen -- in suggestive sounds alone. Trigger your imagination!
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