I love this Bathory album, the start of the so-called “Viking Metal” movement (whatever that means). Arvo Pãrt’s sense of harmony inspired almost all of Peripeteia‘s vocal parts. ECM as a whole has a very inspirational catalog (Steve Reich, Keith Jarrett, Jon Hassell), and Arvo’s music is the icing on the cake.
I’ve been lucky enough to witness a few performances of Pärt’s work live, and it’s always been a beautiful experience. I started listening to his compositions almost 25 years ago, and they have never ceased to impress me every time I listen to the recordings. This work by the Estonian maestro is simply mesmerizing. Peripeteia by Rafael Anton Irisarri Peripeteia by Rafael Anton Irisarri 1. Each LP selected gives a little bit more insight into his dynamic sense of texture and composition, setting him for one of the most involved and elaborate careers in ambient music that’s still going strong to this day. So to help mark the occasion, Irisarri sat down to list his Fave Five records, going with the category of his “Five Favorite Albums of All Time (At This Time)”. Its stark tone is reflected in the song titles, with tracks being named “Between the Negative Voids” and “Vanishing Points” as a way to set the listener up for a listening experience that’s brutal and beautiful.
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It is a blistering ambient piece full of tension and release. Waves of distortion get lost in echo chambers, with walls of white noise soon fading into pink and then into saturated blood red. Referred to in his press release as “power ambient”, there is assuredly a sense of dread that shapes Peripeteia that has always been present in Irisarri’s work but never so prominently featured. The duo’s gorgeous layers of melody proved to be nothing short of a gift for the ears, with that record topping out as PopMatters’ Best Ambient/Instrumental Record of the year.Įver prolific, Irisarri is back with another beautifully desolate soundscape in the form of Peripeteia, his first solo effort for Dais Records. He achieved this perhaps no better than his 2017 collaboration with Leandro Fresco called La Equidistancia. Yet his solo efforts and collaborations aren’t feel-bad listens so much as they are utterly cathartic, finding beauty in torn up digital landscapes. Whether the song is called “Infinite Stillness” with his electronic band Orcas or “Burn Me Out From the Inside” with his experimental duo known as the Sight Below or “Oh Paris, We’re Fucked” from his nuclear apocalypse daydream of a solo record Midnight Colours, Irisarri is unafraid to use his mastery of the wordless soundscape to put forth messages that reflect the bleak and uncompromising times we’re living in. For a guy that doesn’t sing, ambient kingpin Rafael Anton Irisarri still communicates a lot through this song titles - and they are often bleak affairs.