Ital Tek - Hollowed [CD]

Leave your preconceptions
behind because Ital Teks brilliant new album Hollowed is his best and most
rewarding yet. Created from new beginnings, it's a journey through the naÔve
exploratory methods with which Alan Myson started to make music over a decade
ago. The record is dark and maximalist but at the same time the huge sounds are
minutely detailed and elegantly rendered. Cutting himself off in a new studio
at the start of 2014, Alan experimented and worked out the core sounds of the
album by going back to the techniques he started with: "when I was 15 I
would make endless minidiscs with my guitar and effects. With this record I
bought the guitar I wanted back then and hit record, creating hours of drones,
loops and textures. I wanted to make the album that was in my head when I was
14 but I had no idea how to". With Hollowed Ital Tek gone far beyond his
earlier more dance-genre based work, leaving just the footprint and especially
the sonic weight and space of dubstep. But the sound here is designed from the
ground up and carved into something much more abstract, impressionistic and
elegant. As Alan puts it "I'm moving away from dance music and letting
sound inhabit a space without shoving everything at the listener in the first
few bars". One of the biggest musical experiences that left an impression
on him while recording this album was hearing "Henryk Goreckis Symphony
No 3 being played live, starting very small and soaring, then returning to
stillness&" It was this that made him think about reassembling his
approach to making music.

• Format Detail: CD
• Format: CD
• Genre: Dance & Electronic