GALÁN / VOGT // The Sweet Wait LP

過去にPast Inside the Presentなどから発表しているスペインのアンビエント作家Pepo Galánと、オーストラリアのドリームポップ作家Karen Vogtが、2021年11月に自主リリースした共作レコードです。

ドリーミーなシューゲイズ・アンビエントポップ9曲を収録。180g重量盤、白盤です。DLコードとポストカード付属。

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Edition of 300. Each LP comes with download code and postcard.

Editions Furioso:

"Debut album from GALÁN / VOGT; a collaboration between Spanish ambient/experimental composer Pepo Galán and Australian dream pop vocalist/musician Karen Vogt. American composer Akira Rabelais contributes to tracks "Panacea" and "Above The Aether". Guests include Jolanda Moletta on backing vocals (SHE OWL), Mark Beazley on bass (ROTHKO/BAND OF HOLY JOY), Simon McCorry on cello and Achim Färber on drums (AUTOMAT). Album artwork features 2 photographs by French photographer Aurélie Scouarnec; known for beautifully capturing shadows in her work." 

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Reviews:

FLUID RADIO (UK)
" Taking in dark ambient, dreampop, shoegaze, neo-classical, and ambient elements... a beautiful blurring between Pepo’s elegant, sweeping, and deeply textured ambient soundscapes and Karen’s vocals " bit.ly/3Bcy4Pb

INIQUITOUS GLORY (UK)
"Galán’s music is majestic and utterly compelling. It has the rare quality of being incredibly subtle whilst feeling totally absorbing, transporting you to a place of reflection and thought. That is aided by Vogt’s lyrics, which can be melancholic and even dark but somehow manage to raise you up, to make you aware, and to get you thinking. There is an existential edge to some of the songs, heightened by Vogt’s vocal delivery which is unreservedly unique and devastatingly beautiful" bit.ly/322afgU

RATE YOUR MUSIC (US)
"The standout here for me was Opa, and is perhaps my favorite track of the year. There's a very deep, indescribable feeling inside it that gives me chills even after listening to it countless times. It was also the first track I've heard off the record, since the first time I heard it was on a set on WFMU by my friend and radio tutor, and I was completely floored by it; I couldn't believe a song like that existed, but it's true, and it's really amazing." bit.ly/32kWWse

POST-PUNK . COM (US)
"A dark and beautiful ambient dream pop collaboration in GALÁN VOGT’s “Starseed”... weaves elements of dark ambient, dream pop, shoegaze, experimental, drone, and neo-classical music with the beautiful, haunting single" bit.ly/3kXXSci

SOWHAT (ITALY)
"... the virtuous balance between melodic and rarefied ambient, an effective blend capable of highlighting the two souls of the project without defining dominant hierarchies. The vaporous flows arising from the combination of guitar drones, piano resonances and electronic textures create the perfect substrate... it is worth highlighting [the contribution] of Akira Rabelais - who was entrusted with the creation of an extension to the songs... capable of expanding the sound landscape towards haunting vaguely ghostly horizons and the finishing work in the mastering phase of Rafael Anton Irisarri." bit.ly/3ALTVNQ

TEXTURA (CAN)
"Galán, whose work has appeared as part of Kompakt's Pop Ambient series, doesn't overwhelm Vogt's voice... even when the music swells epically, her delivery ensures a feeling of intimacy remains... Processed guitar, piano, and electronic textures blur together in the backdrop, over which Vogt's slow unfurl appears, her voice positioned so high in the mix it feels like it's whispering in your ear...While one could spend time trying to classify the material, it resists being easily slotted into ambient, dreampop, shoegaze, or any other category. The Sweet Wait could be described as an alluring set of vocal-driven meditations, but one is better advised to simply surrender to the music's intoxicating pull. "
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A DECOUVRIR ABSOLUMENT (FR) "
Pepo and Karen seem to construct a mysticism without code or grammar, including the codes of a haunted pop... The Sweet Wait is a pocket of air, a lagoon on a sea on fire...Masterfully chilling, prodigiously comforting." bit.ly/3uiHvuk

FOXY DIGITALIS (US)
"When the overcast skies begin to part, those first stray beams of light pierce the veil, like celestial spotlights searching the ground for answers to questions not yet asked. Karen Vogt’s voice on “Panacea” propels the pristine stillness of Pepo Galán’s composition into motion, languidly moving from cloud to cloud, a weightless angel pulling the planetary strings." bit.ly/3kVEIEF

BACKSEAT MAFIA (UK/AUS)
"Vogt’s magical vocals are stunning: naked and exposed over a wash of ambience and a distant piano, with double tracked vocal interludes that are ethereal and ghostly.....The overall effect is something glittering and beautiful, filled with a deep and rich melancholy that hides within its dark heart a spark of hope and resilience." bit.ly/3ASikBh

WHITE LIGHT WHITE HEAT (ITALY/US)
"Soft glowing auras cut in minimal tinkling piano keys expand droning synth modulations to shiver anxiously under long drawn outbreaths of beautiful, atmospheric female vocals releasing cathartic inhibitions. "

Artist : GALÁN / VOGT

Label : Editions Furioso