Novaya zemlya means new land in russian, and the opening thunderous drops suggest at explorations of unknown territories where sound stands still, as if in a vacuum, barely escaping outside of its humid atmosphere. To listen to thomas koner one must be equipped with a great pair of headphones or a system with a powerful bass. Novaya zemlya represents a refinement of over 20 years of practice. Stream tracks and playlists from thomas koner on your desktop or mobile device. The camera and point of view of the explorers position is gradually dissolved. The novaya zemlya of thomas koner is a distant, blighted world, one punished by time, space and history, but, crucially, one still inhabited by the presence. It was a centre of experimentation for nuclear trials under the soviet era. Over one million legal mp3 tracks available at juno download. He invites audiences to enjoy impressions of depth, distance and disappearance, and to fathom the qualities of the space around our limits of perception.
With novaya zemlya, thomas koner has added another stunning masterpiece of audio art to his already impressive collection. Of course we find the unique koneresque glowing drones that we know from his previous works. The master sound sculptor takes the eponymous arctic archipelago situated in the sea north of russia as his inspiration, deploying discreet field recordings to plot a sort of sonic geography of this desolate and mountainous region used by the russian military. Climate change means retreating glaciers, which exposes new islands, which means new maps. From 76 mb thomas koner nunatak teimo permafrost type072 3cd 2010 mpx rar. Novaya zemlya literally means new land and is the name of a cluster of remote islands in the arctic ocean in the north of russia. He will be joined by thomas koner, whose novaya zemlya landed in our albums of 2012 list keep an eye on the quietus site on wednesday for an indepth interview with koner as well as greg haines, james blackshaw, poppy ackroyd, carlos cipa and talvihorros. Download thomas koner songs, singles and albums on mp3. A hypnotic journey between two visions of the future and two utopias, from footage of the monumental metropolis fritz lang 1927 and the 1980s cult movie tron s. Check out novaya zemlya by thomas koner on amazon music. Here you can buy and download music mp3 thomas koner. Novaya zemlya new land consists of two large islands, severny northern and yuzhny southern, aligned for 600 miles 1,000 km in a southwestnortheast direction, plus.
Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free bandcamp app. Includes highquality download in mp3, flac and more. Novaya zemlya is the most minimal album in ages for the label as koner focuses the albums three extended tracks on a variety of lowlevel hums and obscured field recordings that are crushed into fine bits of dust. Conclusively, novaya zemlya is a worthy thomas koner album, a masterful construction that makes most ambient music sound sappy, one dimensional and overdone. Thomas koners works are audiovisual meditations that explore our notion of time, memory and location. Making a career of giving sound to the tundra snow and ice, thomas koner does it again with his latest release, novaya zemlya new land. Novaya zemlya by thomas koner, released 30 may 2012 1. The title of this release is the name of the russian island in the arctic where the majority of their nuclear testing was done during the cold war. Thank you for this amazing mix, and apologies for taking so long to comment. Thoms koner makes a very welcome return with the bonechilling soundscapes of novaya zemlya his eleventh album and first for touch. Listen to thomas koner soundcloud is an audio platform that lets you listen to what you love and share the sounds you create 8 tracks. As well as his deep involvement with the basic channel family, as one half of the excellent porter ricks, over the past years, koner s dedication to intensive sound research in the recording studio has taken him towards collaborations with some leading film.
The islands were discovered in satellite photos by then. Administratively, it is incorporated as novaya zemlya district, one of the twentyone in arkhangelsk oblast, russia. Novaya zemlya, archipelago in northwestern russia, lying in the arctic ocean and separating the barents and kara seas. Enjoy folks, and if you feel like it, id like you to share your sensations too, here in the comments section or on my facebook page at. He has recorded several albums, worked with field recordings, and created audiovisual installations that have been exhibited in numerous museums worldwide. Until 1994 he worked with film sound as sound engineer. This is a short film about my fascination with uncharted territories. It is made of found footage material from photo archives to become a travelogue of other peoples memories. Municipally, it is incorporated as novaya zemlya urban okrug. This live performance proposes a hallucinated travel through the reversible relationship between image and sound. Enjoy folks, and if you feel like it, id like you to share your sensations too, here in.
Listen online 1 songs from novaya zemlya 2012 thomas koner. Merzbow vs thomas koner by bob vespaziani mixcloud. Noyaya zemlya is an archipelago in the arctic ocean, situated above the polar circle. If at first it doesnt make an impression on you, listen again when in a quiet place and a patient state of.
Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Novaya zemlya is an archipelago in the arctic ocean at the north of russia and the protagonist of koner s latest release on touch, a metaphysical tracing of glowing drones and the barebones of underlying melody and harmony. Either that or my hearings gone bad overnight, because much of koner s novaya zemlya is barely audible to me at typical volume levels. As one half of porter ricks and as a sound artist, film editor and sound engineer, his work finds limitless depths. Listen free to thomas koner novaya zemlya novaya zemlya 1, novaya zemlya 2 and more.
Koner and other likeminded experimental producers francisco lopez, for example, i ask. Bbc news reports that five new islands off the northeast coast of novaya zemlya, an archipelago in the russian arctic that was the site of hundreds of nuclear tests, were mapped by a russian expedition. Thomas koner releaseproduct novaya zemlya label touch catalogue number to85 3 tracks cd download type artist basic rhythm releaseproduct the basics label type catalogue number type5 8. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at.
Novaya zemlya promo by thomas koner, released 01 july 2014 1. This item has now sold out but take a look at what else we have in by thomas koner or similar artists. Thomas koner download all ambient songs thomas koner. Novaya zemlya touch, 2012 is more than a concept album because, besides being entirely devoted to one theme a vast piece of tundra that became soviet unions nuclear test site and then experienced the largest nuclear detonation in history it is also an apocalyptic vision of an ecological catastrophe about to. From 146 mb our goal is to provide highquality video, tv streams, music, software, documents or any other shared files for free. As a media artist, thomas koner is working across the spheres of composition, visual arts, installation and music. Luckily novaya zemlya is remote, a crescentshaped island group above the arctic circle between the kara and barents seas. Merzbient track playing simultaneously under thomas koner s novaya zemlya comments.