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Luigi Archetti / Bo Wiget
Low Tide Digitals I
Rune Grammofon RCD 2019
The WIRE 2001
...Swiss Sounds scientists Luigi Archetti and Bo Wiget ride a vibe that takes them way beyond Ambient into contemporary classical music. That dimension is partly defined by Wigetâs cello playing and Archettiâs arched guitar style, but their masterful and sparing application of electronics is also an important consideration. This fusion of the mechanical and the organic is sensual, thrilling and mysteriously moving."
www.jazzecho.de
9.19.2003
Archetti/Wiget ist das erste Projekt auf Rune Grammofon, das nicht aus Norwegen kommt. Mit einem außerordentlich reduziert eingesetzten Instrumentarium von Gitarre, Cello und Electronics passen sich die beiden Schweizer Luigi Archetti und Bo Wiget jedoch nahtlos ins Repertoire der Skandinavier. Archetti, seit einem Jahrzehnt Mitglied in der Post-Krautrock-Band Guru Guru, und Wiget bauen auf den Errungenschaften Brian Enos auf, führen Ambient aber zurück zu den Quellen der elektro-akustischen und Neuen Musik. Sie betreiben einen hintergründigen Trialog mit der absoluten Stille, die dem Hörer weite Assoziationsräume gewährt. Die bedingungslose Offenheit aller Projektionsflächen und Koordinaten ist ein unverwechselbares Qualitätsmerkmal des Duos. So treffen verhaltene World-Beat-Andeutungen auf virtuelle Klanganimationen, intellektuelle Kraft auf emotionale Schönheit.
http://aural-innovations.com
January 2004
Two precious treasures are to be introduced that should appeal to Aural Innovations readers with an interest in improvisational as well as electronic music. Both CDs stand for some of the latest developments in the genre of improvisation duos which they partly extend. Though filed under Jazz at times and reviewed in Jazz magazines, in both cases you rather not receive what you might expect as contemporary Jazz productions. Both CDs use electronics means as improvisational elements that are known from Ambient and even Techno productions, but you can be sure that this music will not appeal to Ambient and Techno listners. If you might think that you know the name Luigi Archetti somewhere, yes, he’s the current guitarist with the legendary German Krautrockers Guru Guru, but you won’t hear this on one of these CDs.
Low Tide Digitals features Luigi Archetti on guitar and electronics and Bo Wiget on Cello and electronics, and the eleven tracks on this CD are called track one, track two et cetera until track eleven. Quite "democratically" there are no stand outs and all of them transport the "almost nothing" principle to modern music, minimalism on its highest level. You hear modulated pulses, fragments of ethnic music, ultra deep basses, scratch noises produced with the help of the guitar fretboard, the cello and the guitar as such, clicking electronic percussion, drones, thunder, sound snippets of undefinable origins, and all this in homeopathic doses. But, astonishingly enough, once you get used to these presentations of
almost silence, they turn out to be perceived as sonic revelries, a little bit like delicious small dishes in the French nouvelle cuisine or like one drop of water after having been thirsty for a while. Going a bit deeper, we’re dealing with concepts of perception, attitudes and behavior. You need the time to do nothing else then listening to this music. You have to be patient, and may not expect any superficial sensation.
Reviewed by Frank Gingeleit
http://spazioinwind.libero.it
A minor classic, a diamond in the dust of unknown records. Eleven small fragments of extreme intelligence, never too busy (especially in the second half of the CD) and always a pleasure for my taste. Most duos -guitar and cello- are bathed in quite simple electronic treatment and keep sending your ears messages that need attention. You can listen to these communications or, on the other hand, you can even relax and fall asleep at late night if you keep it at low volume. In a way or another, this is one of the cutest releases I've put my hands on in 2002...with good delay.
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