artist: HARUKI
title: To Humble A Nest
label: The Land Of
country: USA
format: CDR
title: To Humble A Nest
label: The Land Of
country: USA
format: CDR
Haruki aka Boris Snauwaert lives and makes music in Gent, Belgium.
"For this album I wanted to create a raw, free-floating, and amorphous kind of music
where all kinds of sounds (acoustic and digital, dirty and clean, sweet and irritating)
cling together to make up an abstract but somehow organic tangle. There’s quite a bit
of walking, breathing and ticking in these tracks. To me, the album feels like a walk
through different types of spaces (be it cities, suburbs, non-spaces between
countryside and the city, parks, houses or other kinds of buildings) with sounds
floating in and out of hearing. Listening with headphones is recommended."
(Boris Snauwaert)
"US label The Land Of always creates one of the nicest packages in CDR land.
Cardboard stock, full colour print work, with a nice design. Boris Snauwaert is the
man behind Haruki, who has had a couple of releases on Kaspar Hauser Records,
Rain Music and Corps-Morts Records, as well as doing a remix for Machinefabriek
and My Brightest Diamond. On ‘To Humble A Nest’ he has nine pieces of field
recordings, acoustic objects, electronic sounds and digital sounds, which he all
threw on a computer’s hard disc and then starts to unfold them - or so it seems. Let’s
say there are eight tracks, and they are all filled with sound, then Haruki will find the
dialogue between those sounds. Sometimes it seems that sounds from one piece
appear also in another, but perhaps I am imagining this. Haruki succeeds quite well
in this dialogue. The music is quite vibrant and not silent throughout, although a piece
like ‘If I Wrote You’ is a sparse violin like piece, followed by other two others pieces
that are somewhat quieter too. Otherwise his methods are a bit Brume-like: make
sure always something happens. Very nice release, which blends field recordings
together with real instruments." (Frans de Waard - Vital Weekly)
"For this album I wanted to create a raw, free-floating, and amorphous kind of music
where all kinds of sounds (acoustic and digital, dirty and clean, sweet and irritating)
cling together to make up an abstract but somehow organic tangle. There’s quite a bit
of walking, breathing and ticking in these tracks. To me, the album feels like a walk
through different types of spaces (be it cities, suburbs, non-spaces between
countryside and the city, parks, houses or other kinds of buildings) with sounds
floating in and out of hearing. Listening with headphones is recommended."
(Boris Snauwaert)
"US label The Land Of always creates one of the nicest packages in CDR land.
Cardboard stock, full colour print work, with a nice design. Boris Snauwaert is the
man behind Haruki, who has had a couple of releases on Kaspar Hauser Records,
Rain Music and Corps-Morts Records, as well as doing a remix for Machinefabriek
and My Brightest Diamond. On ‘To Humble A Nest’ he has nine pieces of field
recordings, acoustic objects, electronic sounds and digital sounds, which he all
threw on a computer’s hard disc and then starts to unfold them - or so it seems. Let’s
say there are eight tracks, and they are all filled with sound, then Haruki will find the
dialogue between those sounds. Sometimes it seems that sounds from one piece
appear also in another, but perhaps I am imagining this. Haruki succeeds quite well
in this dialogue. The music is quite vibrant and not silent throughout, although a piece
like ‘If I Wrote You’ is a sparse violin like piece, followed by other two others pieces
that are somewhat quieter too. Otherwise his methods are a bit Brume-like: make
sure always something happens. Very nice release, which blends field recordings
together with real instruments." (Frans de Waard - Vital Weekly)