Kiasmos / Kiasmos
Album: Kiasmos   Collection:General
Artist:Kiasmos   Added:Jul 2016
Label:Erased Tapes Records  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2016-07-19 Pull Date: 2016-09-18 Charts: Electronic, Classical/Experimental
Week Ending: Sep 4 Aug 21 Aug 14 Aug 7 Jul 31 Jul 24
Airplays: 1 2 2 4 3 1

Recent Airplay
1. Jun 09, 2017: The Lord's Last Supper
Bent
4. Sep 03, 2016: Narnia
Burnt
2. Feb 11, 2017: Reckless Burning
Bent
5. Aug 20, 2016: Music Casserole
Burnt
3. Jan 14, 2017: Narnia
Looped
6. Aug 18, 2016: a strange pursuit
Lit

Album Review
DJ Aporia
Reviewed 2016-07-12
Minimal, slow-burning techno that evokes the glacial grandeur of the Nordic landscape. Kiasmos is the fruit of two Icelandic musicians, experimental composer Ólafur Arnalds and electronic producer Janus Rasmussen, and they’ve combined their artistic senses into a real masterpiece closest in comparison to Jon Hopkins’ Immunity. It's longform dance music held together by delicate ambient washes, four-on-the-floor beats, and minimal touches of violin and piano. The music swells and releases at just the right moments, anchored by steady, shadowy pulses that drive the sound into dazzling, shapeshifting territories. This is deeply moving techno best experienced in solitude—headphones on, dreams open, intuiting the universe.

1. (6:25) ** Lit—Patient ambient intro, thick drumming, strings, hopeful.
2. (5:01) ** Held—Elegant piano, celestial strings that crest and fall, bittersweet.
3. (6:01) **** Looped—Music to die to. Piano-driven with some synth fills. Spectacular rise until its softly glowing finish.
4. (4:24) ** Swayed—House track! Pensive, still danceable. Play with the next track.
5. (8:59) *** Thrown—Massive, introspective house. Crying on the dance floor. Ends beatless.
6. (5:01) ** Dragged—Bassy, dark and cavernous, clapping sounds, really entrancing.
7. (5:45) ***** Bent—Jagged bass line, translucent piano brimming beneath, relentless ascension, devastatingly beautiful.
8. (9:21) **** Burnt—Atmospheric, churning, restless. Three-minute ambient afterglow with some stray piano lines. Epic closer.

Track Listing
1. Lit   5. Thrown
2. Held   6. Dragged
3. Looped   7. Bent
4. Swayed   8. Burnt