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Ilhan Mimaroglu | Outstanding Warrants

CD, Southport

Tekst: Bas Ickenroth

Publicatiedatum: 22 oktober 2001

Ilhan Mimaroglu is a "tape music" composer from Turkey, now residing in New York. The subtitle of this album is 'Electronic Compositions Previously Unreleased', released as part of the Southport Composer Series. While the structure of the compositions is rooted in composed atonal and twelve-tone music (as developed by Schönberg), the performance itself isn't done with orchestra, but with synths. Cheap sounding synths, I might add, which probably was inevitable due to the time period they were recorded: 80s and early 90s. This sound makes the big difference. The compositions themselves are definitely not bad, sometimes even very good. With an orchestra performing them, or good electronic equipment, this would have been a good avantgarde album, but with the cheap synth and electronic sound presented here, it's rather difficult to take the music seriously. As a whole, the album sounds amateuristic, and that couldn't have been the composer's or the label's objective.

http://www.kindamuzik.net/recensie/ilhan-mimaroglu/outstanding-warrants/1056/
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