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1.	off the map 02:37	buy track
2.	unstrung 01 08:27	buy track
3.	map 03:23	buy track
4.	abstract 0 9 04:36	buy track
5.	october 2007 07:37	buy track
6.	diagram 04:16	buy track
7.	space in a can 05:36	buy track
8.	diagram 1978 - 2056 04:26	buy track
9.	now 06:24	buy track
10.	in a field 03:20	buy track

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Off The Map is a good album title, but Out Of The Stratosphere might be appropriate as well. Otherwise, these experimental guitarists gained some notoriety via their collaboration in the avant-garde ensemble known as "hwyl nofio. This album looms as the artists' freshman release within a duo framework.

Other than guitars, Fredrik Soegaard's arsenal includes a MIDI fractal converter, whereas Steve Parry integrates electronics, guitars, preparations, a violin and ukulele into the grand scheme of matters. Consisting of warbling EFX and alien soundscapes, the musicians interweave a steely-edged dreamscape designed with a few meltdowns and drone-centric scenarios.

Perhaps the music serves as an invitation into an unforgiving domain or intimates a sojourn into the other side, but the guitarists do transmit a vibe that generates a sequence of ominous circumstances. Teeming with oscillating swashes of sound and subliminal treatments, the duo pursues cyclical frequencies, supplanted by a sense of darkness throughout many of these ten tracks.

On the piece simply titled "Now", they seemingly employ reverse loops coupled with severely digitized voices, but it's up to the listener's discernment to deconstruct the electronics/instrumentation element. Overall, the musicians use their tools of the trade with great care. It's not cacophonic shock therapy, but more about nourishment for the mind's eye, which in effect, would summon an abundance of neural sensibilities and interpretations.

by Glenn Astarita - All About Jazz
April 30, 2007

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released May 5, 2021

steve parry - guitars, ukulele, violin, preparations, adaptations, electronics
fredrik soegaard - guitar, MIDI fractal converter, TC FireworX, tambourabox

recorded 2005 - 2006 at The Wern, UK & Holte, Denmark

all compositions: parry/soegaard.
produced by: parry/soegaard.
(c) HWYL 2007

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Band originated in 1997, whose name, translated from Welsh, means "Emotional Swimmers", which more or less defines their music. You can describe it as experimental, avant-garde, ambient, but mostly free improvisation. It simply blurs the boundaries of musical styles. The band is based around its originator Steve Parry. ... more

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