CHRA

Christina Nemec (Comfortzone) presents an unheimlich vision of future ambient music with ‘Empty Airport’, further to her aktions with Peter Rehberg and Christian Schachinger in Shampoo Boy. Also including additional mixing from Christian Fennesz in the gauzily layered introduction, ‘Abandoned House’, the album unfolds a finely-parsed mixture of field recordings and electronics laced with inorganic techno drums and stalked by slow moving black masses of bass. If Eno’s ‘Music For Airports’ is a dreamy experience, this is its nightmare analog; recreating, for us at least, that sensation of being encapsulated in headphones in an altered state amidst milling holiday zombies and invisible but powerful electro-magnetic waves radiating from humming x-ray scanners and conveyor belts. A bit like Liverpool John Lennon airport with the cheesy statue of John replaced by some Orwellian dictator glaring from the centre of a huge, abandoned concourse.

BOOMKAT REVIEW

‘On A Fateful Morning’ lets you enter a sphere where the imaginary and the subliminal cross. Evoking abstract images that transcend reality, Chra installs an autarchic time-and-space-continuum of vague, nocturnal beauty. Pastose bass drones, airy ambient synths and processed audio-samples form a hypnotic stream that lets you enter an altered state of mind. By subtly intertwining musical and non musical sounds chra is weaving an intensely atmospheric, poetic tableau of emptied spaces left to our imagination. It’s the pulse of arcane memories that is filling these sonic landscapes, operating deep within our subconscious.

SHINY BEAST