Finomehanika by Robert Merlak - SWIMS [SWIM03] FLAC download included with physical items
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Finomehanika

Robert Merlak

A 8 track musique concrete album (41m 44s) — released July 1st 2020 on SWIMS

#electronic #musique-concrete

An essential repress of the monumental 2020 album. Finomehanika was Rijeka-based Robert's first solo release in two decades since "Albumski" on pioneering avant-garde techno label Phthalo which put him on the map next to fellow artists as diverse as Dntel, Daedelus and James 'V/Vm' Kirby.

Merging piano and field recordings, Merlak moves between musique concrete, ambient, and neo classical, crafting great layers of depth and ambience combining the frayed melancholia of Vladislav Delay's Multila with the strangely real-sounding yet otherworldly mechanics of Autechre during their Confield years. All the while sounds from the natural world prevent us from drifting too far into the abstract, keeping us grounded in a fragmented, confusing but familiar environment. What makes Finomehanika all the more impressive is that it was produced in the early 2000s pre-broadband-Internet, post-war Croatia with sparse equipment.

The album features the artist's brother Miro, better known for his releases as Qwerty. The sleeve design was commissioned from Michael Tan known for his previous work with artists such as Blanck Mass and Dopplereffekt.

“Delicately assembled combinations of organic and electronic sounds, wherein piano, field recordings and synths are made indistinguishable from one another in a layered motion of abstract ambience and gratifyingly crunchy textures - Steph Kretowicz The Wire

Finomehanika’s cover art is indicative of the music contained inside. The exposed corrugated steel, peeling paint and futurist structures that interlock hint at a tussle between the familiar and otherworldly, a synthesis of real-world materials and a preternatural focus reserved for the most experimental of compositions. - Matt Blair If-Only

Sound collages that capture the feeling of moving in and out of sleep. - Joshua Minsoo Kim Tone Glow

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