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O
belga Arne van Petegem é o homem por detrás do
projecto Styrofoam, uma evolução do seu anterior
nome Tin Foil Star. Se no tempo de TFS Arne se pautava
por uma aproximação experimental ao electropop fundindo-o
com elementos folk (algo que vem com ele dos tempos em que tocava em
bandas de indie rock), com Styrofoam os sintetizadores ganharam
mais destaque e controlam agora todos os aspectos da produção,
incluindo os vocals que enchem este álbum.
A Short Album About Murder é muito cinematográfico,
quase como se contasse uma história ao ouvinte - as músicas
funcionam como cenas desse "filme", tendo cada uma uma envolvência
muito própria, um "cenário" distinto - e embrenham-no
no que parece ser um drama de amores e desamores. O toque poético
dado aos nomes das peças ajuda a criar um certo misticismo ao
redor da obra.
Mas descendo à Terra um pouco, e apreciando os processos de produção
do álbum, podemos dizer que estamos ante um dos melhores álbuns
de IDM do ano, com Styrofoam a conseguir acrescentar elementos
de apreciação a um subestilo de IDM já um pouco
desgastado, o do ambient. Consegue-o através de melodias etéreas,
fazendo recordar nomes grandes do género como os Boards of
Canada, misturadas com "tweaked beats". Projectos como
King Q4 ou Bola são referências obrigatórias
neste trabalho, assim como os Arovane (cujo Uwe Zahn vocaliza
a primeira música do álbum). Deixemos o próprio
Styrofoam descrever algumas das suas músicas:
no
matter what
Arne: This was supposed to be one of the instrumental songs on the original
ep, until I decided to add some vocals the day before mastering. Uwe
Zahn (arovane) was kind enough to record these in his studio. He has
a very nice studio. There's also a nice strings section on this track
which I really like. It's about love and destruction.
it's just that we don't show it
Arne: This track used to be called failure to deliver until I changed
the title so it would fit in better with the rest of the album's titles.
There's a small hiphop a capella sample saying "took me 360 days",
and I thought naming the track failure to deliver would be somewhat
hilarious. I think there's a lot of humour in this album but maybe it
doesn't really show so well. It's about trying and not succeeding.
bad night is falling
Arne: This is the track that inspired me to get the short album about
murder album title, because of the line "wishing everybody dead"
at the end of it. There's also this little sigh at the very end which
sounds very funny. It's the track I finished last the day before leaving
to berlin. It's about past failures.
if you tell me the truth i will kill you
Arne: I think this is my favourite track on the album. I did this one
at a very nice studio at my job using lots of software stuff (which
is very different from my normal working methods). A few days after
this was finished I got kicked out of the studio (for private use at
least) :( There's a sample from my favourite movie at the end of this
track, which really kills me everytime I hear it. The sample was recorded
from the web through an iBook's little speaker onto a md walkman with
the md's headphones acting as microphone and than mixed into the track
with a dj mixer, also the day before mastering the album. It sounds
really nice. Sometimes it's better not to tell the truth. It's about
wanting to forgive but not being able to.
by anybody else i mean you
Arne: I think this is Thomas's (Morr) favourite track. It's probably
the most upbeat and poppy I've done so far and I will ever do. I've
played lots of live sets over the summer and fall of 2000 and this together
with no matter and it's just that were always in there. It's about walking
over to the next one.
Nota
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Morr
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