With our 22nd release, we bring you a remix album for the Free Jazz, Avant-garde, the alternative trio “Quark Effect” debut release “Lunar Soil”.
Lithuanian-Irish trio born in Scotland “Quark Effect” (Kornelijus Pukinskis – alto saxophone, Dominykas Snarskis – drums, Ronan Whittern – electronics) focuses on experimental practice with sounds of acoustic instruments and electronics and are constantly looking for different approaches to create music. Their sound can be described as a mixture of spacious, minimalistic, and rationally intricate themes, followed by idiosyncratic Avant-garde stylistics. The music is inspired by the philosophy of theoretical physics (general relativity and quantum mechanics), the sincerity of human feelings, and exceptional life moments, events, items, and remarkable stories.
“Quark Effect” - “Lunar Soil” (recorded, mixed, mastered, and produced by Vilius “Vilo” Jokubaitis) was released as a debut album in February this year. It consists of eight original compositions and combines Free Jazz, Minimalism, and Avant-garde stylistics in an electro-acoustic environment. The artwork of this album was made by Greta Rokaitė.
In this remix album, you will hear 9 different interpretations of the original “Lunar Soil” compositions made by Vilnius-based electronic music artists “Artfcl”, “Phun Thomas” and “Smpl Smpl”. The main idea of this release is to transfer “Quark Effect” sound into another musical perspective using electronic music tools only.
The First 4 remixes are highly contradictory. The first one named “Leon (Artfcl Remix)” opens this remix album with a clear and very spacious saxophone melody together with a pretty aggressive tribal beat and echoing synthesizer. However, the second piece “Auroral Backscatter (Artfcl Drop)” instantly changes the mood. Samples of acoustic drums and saxophone “pouring” hard Avant-garde are combined with a distorted synthesizer bass and electronic percussive sounds revives an “old-school” Jungle sound into a modern perspective. The third remix “Hadamard Gate (Artfcl Remix)” starts with aggressively distorted and time-stretched saxophone improvisation. As time goes by this remix organically evolves into a new, more harmonic approach that contradicts the music that was already heard by the listener. The fourth remix for the piece “Lunar Soil” is done by “Smpl Smpl”. This remix, as the artist says himself, was made to extract the Minimal, Dance stylistics from the original “Quark Effect” sound. The listener will be able to hear the strangely satisfying mixture of Avant-garde, Electro, Jazz, Breakbeat.
The next 3 remixes are presented by electronic music composer, producer, and live performer “Phun Thomas”. In “Quantum Chromodynamics (Phun Thomas Remix)” the original saxophone melody is being supplemented by an evolving synthesizer and electro-acoustic percussive elements which creates an interesting Breakbeat, IDM, Experimental sound. The following remix “Recalcitrance (Phun Thomas Remix)” starts with a much more Ambient approach with no steady pulse and spacious saxophone solo which goes through the electronic effects chain. However, the electronic bass which is following the saxophone and gradually evolving pulse gives the sense of continuity regarding the previous remix. With the next remix “To Do Things Eventually (Phun Thomas Remix)” this release travels further into different electronic music styles. This time spoken-word and Avant-garde aesthetics are being put into a Techno, Disco environment.
The following piece “Ellipse (Artfcl Remix)” is created using an odd-time signature rhythmic disposition. The synthesizer melody taken from the original track is contradicted with 4/4 pulsating IDM, Breakbeat electronic drums, and “screaming” saxophone. The closing piece of this remix album is called “Lunar Soil (Artfcl Remix)”. With this remix, “Artfcl” decides to go into more harmonic sound and lets the listener enjoy spacious saxophone melody and arpeggiator taken from original track “glued” together with newly added synthesizer sounds.
Quark Effect – Lunar Soil (Remixed) brings a great variety of different music genres such as: Free Jazz, Avant-Garde, IDM, Breakbeat, Techno, Jungle, Experimental, Minimal, Ambient. The remix album is mixed and mastered in MAMA Studios.
credits
released September 23, 2021
Written, produced, and composed by Kornelijus Pukinskis, Dominykas Snarskis, and Ronan Whittern.
Remixed by Andrius Laucevičius, Matas Samulionis, and Simas Petkevičius.
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