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Tomaz
Sustar’s (aka Jadviga) first release, Nonim, could be described as a
heterogeneous, yet rhythmical and twisted electronica, coming from one
of the most precise workers of the Slovenian music scene. A high-end
computing engineer by profession, Jadviga’s crafted sounds, cuts and
beats reveal a complexity of rhythms and mathematical equations running
behind the music, with a lightness which is nowadays rarely encountered.
From events that make you move and twist to short landscapes, almost
harmonic and tame in their nature, Nonim takes you on a journey of sound,
that is another contribution, ideal for one of the most easily describable
uses of nowadays new electronic sound production: a car journey, sometime,
somewhere. And a journey it is. Using an array of analogue filtering
of the material, which is afterwards layered in rather precise structures,
using techniques such as granular synthesis and the like, Nonim presents
itself to an accustomed ear as a memory of points in time, that we have
already encountered in contemporary production, but very rarely with
such compositional strictness and a groove, that can be heard over and
over, without getting bored of it. Nonim definitely is a mature release,
for being the first of hopefully many to come by Jadviga, and the waiting
for this one can actually be heard in the material and its heterogeneous
nature.
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