Parallel Worlds - Far Away Light

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Artist:		Parallel Worlds
Album:		Far Away Light

Released by:		Shima Records
Year:		2005

Nr. of discs:		1
Nr. of tracks:		10
Total playtime:		01:09:23

Artist: Parallel Worlds
Album: Far Away Light

Genres: Dreamy beats, Abstract electronic, Cinematic

Far Away Light is the third Parallel Worlds album, released by Shima Records in 2005. It features diverse tracks, from low-tempo electronica to ambient and even electro-like crossover tracks.

The tracks have been composed using everything from the Korg Electribe A, R and S, to the huge Doepfer A100 and Technosaurus SELECTOR System D Modular. Other machines that contributed to this album are Roland JP8000, Korg MS2000R, Nord Micromodular, Waldorf Microwave XT, Emax2, S750, Korg MS20, MS50, SQ10, ARP Odyssey, Yamaha FS1R, Oberheim Matrix 6R and others.

Parallel Worlds is the main project for the Greek musician Bakis Sirros. He has been active in the Greek electronic music scene since 1998 having performed at several concerts including E-PHOS electronic music festival in summer of 2001, Mad club, Club22 (2nd Summer in the city Festival), Music Day Festival 2006, Small Music Theatre and the Underworld Club. He is also involved with other muscians in collaborative work.

The music of Parallel Worlds is a combination of dreamy, atmospheric textures and pure analogue electronic rhythms and sequences, combining the feel of 70s electronic music with modern electronica and ambient music. Sirros uses huge analogue modular instruments and analogue step sequencers of the past and present combined with digital FM, virtual analogue synths and sampling. However he manages to elude the fate of many of his contemporaries in not falling into the trap of simply recycling the past. He creates a music that lives and breathes, imbued with his own personality and mannerisms. At one and the same time familiar and fresh. Steady, organic rhythmic structures are overlaid with deceptively simple melodies that remind one of some lost John Carpenter soundtrack.

Review extracts:

Encyclopedia of Electronic Music: "...supplies you with a heavy dose of well-crafted analogue sounds and some tasty soundscapes that any EM fan will eat up anytime. I would recommend this album to fans of IDM-like electronica as well as those who like the output of FAX label." Rated 4 of 5.

Ingo Zobel / Self Oscillate: "Far away light is a very good album, fully recommended for lovers of dark and moody electronic music. Somewhere between the lines of idm, ambient and classic em, it delights with a full set of interesting tunes beyond the boundaries of pure berlin school em."