Neuronium (Michel Huygen) - Hydro
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Track Listing
- HYDRO 1 “elementum” 14.25
- HYDRO 2 “regina maris” 2.55
- HYDRO 3 “pax” 3.25
- HYDRO 4 “profundus” 21.11
- HYDRO 5 “fluctus” 5.03
- HYDRO 6 “matrix maris” 2.53
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THE 29th ALBUM COMPOSED BY MICHEL HUYGEN
Michel Huygen has created a superb album of electronic music, characterized, among other things, by an unusual and profound manipulation of sound. Water in its multiple manifestations (oceans, rivers, lakes, streams) and what it means to our planet is the theme that has inspired him and on which he has shaped his artistic impressions.
In a time when every electronic sound with an acoustic aspect comes from samplers, few synthesists seem to be able to sculpt sounds of an acoustic appearance directly on the synthesizer. Although to record Hydro, Michel Huygen utilized samplers as well, but some of the most remarkable and "acoustic" sounds in the CD were created by him by means of his skilled manipulation of the processes of electronic synthesis. Thus, for instance, the female solo vocal in "Regina Maris" is neither a true human voice, nor even a sampled one. It is a sound created by Michel. On the other hand, some of the water noises heard in several points of the album are not real, nor are they sampled ones, but rather, once again an illusion that this composer, like the good sound ceramist he is, knows how to create. The Real and The Unreal are blended and intertwined in this CD. The fact that Huygen succeeds in deceiving our ears up to such a point makes him into a sort of magician of synthesizers, capable of giving audible life to The Impossible.
(Jorge Munnshe)
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