Jingles With Bells (Birdfriend 2022)

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1.	irgi dugnai auksti ir aopacia garsai gerai visai 06:26	buy track
2.	vel nieko toks drums su varp zemi 04:27	buy track
3.	is to pacio tesinys geras 06:54	buy track
4.	istisinis is to pacio 04:53	buy track
5.	nieko vel jingles su drums 03:24	buy track
6.	. toks pat drums ir varp zemi biski himpnotizuoj+ 04:35	buy track
7.	varpeliai noiz bugn bosas neblogai 10:18	buy track
8.	varpeliai su gugn irgi is to pacio+ 04:31	buy track
9.	nikoe dar su drums gal pabaigai+ 02:01	buy track

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originaly album released as DL and cassette by record label Birdfriend BF043 Osaka, Japan birdfriend.bandcamp.com/album/jingles-with-bells

"Album „Jingles With Bells“ was recorded live, using computer, midi keyboard & controller on July 2022." by Gintas K
released September 2, 2022

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Gintas K – Jingles With Bells
auralaggravation.com/2022/11/14/gintas-k-jingles-with-bells/
Posted: 14 November 2022 in Albums
Tags: Album Review, analogue emlation, beats, Birdfriend, distortion, electronica, Experimental, festive, Gintas K, Jingles With Bells, laptop, Lithuanian
Birdfriend – 2nd September 2022
Christopher Nosnibor
Gintas K is at it again! Last year I was compelled to break my vow not to listen to, or write a word about any Christmas-themed releases on account of his album, Christmas Till the End, released on December 25th, and now, just when I’m getting into full foaming at the mouth mode over how there’s Christmas stuff everywhere since the week before Halloween, I discover he dropped an album bearing a title with overly festive connotations, which was, in fact, released at the start of September – and which was recorded in July!

Jingles With Bells was, like a number of other works, recorded live, using computer, midi keyboard, and controller.

Despite the album title being in English, and offering something of a play on words with jingles suggesting advertisements as well as festive chimes, the track titles are in K’s native Lithianian, and I’m not entirely sure I trust Google translate when it tells me that ‘irgi dugnai auksti ir aopacia garsai gerai visai’ is ‘the bottoms are also high and the background sounds are quite good’ – although it is a fair description of the six-and-a-half-minute opener. It begins with sparse drips and drops echoing as if in a giant cave, before Kraptavičius introduces his trademark flickering electrostatic glitches and whirs. The layers build as crunches and crackles clamour into a frenzy of fucked-up robotics.

Stammering, fractured beats collide and disperse in all directions, a wheezing, groaning, creaking array of electronic simulations and rapidfire thumps like hammers and nail guns, jazz percussion and despite the complete absence of any actual percussion, Jingles With Bells is marked by a complete absence of any actual beats, instead being driven by clattering short sounds that resemble beats and even trick the ear and mind with their (ar)rhythmic explosions. The last thirty seconds of the seven-minute ‘is to pacio tesinys geras’ (which may or may not translate as therefore the continuation is good’ is marked by silence, and it’s a welcome reprieve from the blindingly busy blitzkrieg blast.

‘istisinis is to pacio’ is a snarling drilling grind of bass, but also introduces the first jangling treble that might pass at a distance as a jingle, but it more resembles a dentist’s drill than sleigh, and the whole experience is less jingle and more nerve-jangling and uncomfortable.

Echoic droplets and sounds reminiscent of jangling jamjars trickle through the album, and the ten-minute monster that is ‘varpeliai noiz bugn bosas neblogai’ (‘bells noiz bugn boss not bad’ – yeah… nah) begins with what sounds like a bath being run down the plug and a crackling blast of blocks of distortion against – finally – chimes. But against a creaking croaking, cracking low end like the bow of a wooden ship breaking against rocks in a storm, those melodic tinkles soon build to forge an oppressive, head-compressing sonic torture; it’s simply all too much. But too much is never enough, and as such, it all adds up to another album that bears all of Gintas K’s quite unique hallmarks forged from some mangled laptop machinations, manipulated in real time.

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released October 29, 2022

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Gintas K (Gintas Kraptavičius) a sound artist, composer exploring digital, live, computer music, granular synthesis sound aesthetics. Participant of Transmediale, ISEA, ISSTA, IRCAM forum workshop, xCoAx, ICMC, NYCEMF, Ars Electronica Festival. Winner of Broadcasting Art 2010, Spain; 2019 USF International Call for Scores, USA ... more

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