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Also, while Sweden was definitely a very happening place musically around that time, making proto-industrial electronic drone music was most definitely not the zeitgeist. Important Records keeps their recent string of excellent minimal drone albums intact with this long-neglected gem from the distant past. Choral music and music for wind instruments have appealed to him more than the symphony orchestra or the string quartet. Recorded using the now-primitive electronic gear at Swedish Radio, Folke's stuttering harmonics and queasy haze of overtones bear absolutely no timbral relation to Indian classical music at all. The reissue added a half-speed version though, which is considerably more drone-like and easier on the ears. Certainly not the original piece, anyway, which sounds like a hypnotic, otherworldly hum hovering above a bed of purring machinery. Apart from his composing Rabe has been active over a wide range of the realm of music:

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Originally released back in as Was?? Rabe was right to choose the more radical and challenging normal-speed version for the original release though, as it is much stronger artistically the half-speed version's softened edges blunt its impact.

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Folke Rabe

Apart from his composing Rabe has been active over a wide range of the realm of music: It still holds up as a very good album though and packs foloe more bite than I would have expected though I wish it did not ultimately resolve with a major chord.

From the s music for brass has played a prominent part in his output.

Of the two, I prefer the slowed-down version as a listening experience, as the periodic clouds of dissonant harmonizing tones do not feel nearly as harsh or tense at a lower pitch.

The reissue added a half-speed version though, which is considerably more drone-like and easier on the ears. He has also been interested in music ethnology, making field recordings in e.

Important Though it took three years to ultimately get released, Rabe originally composed this piece in the summer ofwhich is quite noteworthy for a couple of reasons. Recorded using the now-primitive electronic gear at Swedish Radio, Folke's stuttering harmonics and queasy haze of overtones bear absolutely no timbral relation to Indian classical music at all. Though it took three years to ultimately whaat released, Rabe originally composed this piece in the summer ofwhich is quite noteworthy for a couple of reasons.

There are solo concertos for trumpet, trombone and horn, and a concerto for brass quintet and symphony orchestra, as well as chamber music. Folke did share some common ground with his more psych-minded countrymen though, as much of his inspiration arose from an interest in Indian music.

There are solo concertos for trumpet, trombone and French horn and a concerto for brass quintet and symphony orchestra as well as chamber music, e.

His electronic work What?? As a composer Folke Rabe was considered an avant-gardist in the Sunday, 17 March Important Records keeps their recent string fokle excellent minimal drone albums intact with this long-neglected gem from the distant past.

I admittedly prefer some of Important's more contemporary minimal drone albums to golke one, but the gulf is not a wide one at all— What?? A less formal biography Folke Rabe born Greatness and listenability do not always coincide.

While several other experimental visionaries Steve Reich, La Monte Young, Rabs Riley, and all of the early electronic composers were already somewhat established, none of them had recorded anything quite like this. Also, while Sweden was definitely a very happening place musically around that time, making proto-industrial electronic drone music was most definitely not the zeitgeist.

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From to he was a member of the intermedia group, The New Culture Quartet, mixing electronic and live music with film projections and other visual elements. The difference is that Rabe was far more interested in ideas of monotony, repetition, and the actual qualities of sound than in more overt borrowing like buying a sitar. From through rzbe has been working for the Swedish National Broadcasting Corp.

Choral music and music for wind instruments have appealed to him more than the symphony orchestra or the string quartet. Certainly not the original piece, anyway, which sounds like a hypnotic, otherworldly hum hovering above a bed of purring machinery. Travelling in Europe, the Americas and Asia has been of importance for his whzt and cultural perspectives.

While it sounds quite contemporary today, I whwt begin to imagine how it was originally received, as it is essentially nothing less than an uncomfortably dissonant rejection of nearly every major aspect of Western music composed at the height of rock's supremacy, no less.