Veteran electronic music artist Laurent Boudic strikes back with his 5th
album transmission under the NÖVÖ moniker! “The Shortwaves” reveals an
interesting return to the band’s darker roots, with a conceptual theme
definitely offering space to sonic experiment: the skywave propagation.
NÖVÖ’s characteristic vintage analogue synths and reflecting minimal
melodies are invaded by viral distorted radio noises and contagious
echoing samples which are manipulated and morphed into percolating
bouncing beats or other repetitive melodic lines.
Dealing in essence with disorganized communication and organized global
(dis)information, “The Shortwaves” plunges us into a dense and heavy
cold war setting, an almost claustrophobic paranoiac cinematic
atmosphere lead by military spy broadcasts, encrypted signals and hidden
noise messages. The sharp cold industrial sequences meet treated
samples and manipulated vocals before fusing with ionized lush catchy
Kraftwerkian electronics and radio noises to form a quite oppressive and
unique lo-fi cosmic soundscape as only NÖVÖ can create them!
Undulating electronic “Shortwaves” to propagate without moderation.
Tracklist: 1. Gongs & Chimes (1:39) 2. The Shortwaves (3:47) 3. Whisky Tango Romeo (4:46) 4. Emergency (4:12) 5. Radio Moscow (Part I & II) (4:41) 6. Groupe 8/2 (4:13) 7. Radio Peking (5:21) 8. Radio Japan (4:49) 9. Backward Station (2:45) 10. The News (3:54) 11. Operator (5:33)
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