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- Summary: The latest full-length release for Mira Calix was inspired by collaging and features parts of previous recordings and musical scores.
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- Record Label: Warp
- Genre(s): Electronic, Avant-Garde, Experimental Techno, Experimental Ambient, Experimental Electronic, Ambient Techno, IDM, Modern Composition, Sound Collage
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Dec 9, 2021By the time the melancholic Schoenberg soprano has drifted into the ether at the end of The Abandoned Colony Collapsed My World, you’ll be ready for a repeat listen – although you’ll hear so many different elements the second time round, you’ll wonder whether the album isn’t secretly mutating whilst your back’s turned.
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Dec 9, 2021The results are not quite like anything else to be found in Warp’s massive back catalogue, and serve as an invitation for absorption. Where her samples are from becomes less important than where, under Calix’s inspired re-imaging, they take us.
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Dec 9, 2021What is impressive about absent origin is that the sprawling album does have a focus. There are repeated themes — feminist and internationalist snippets as well as musical motifs. And the albums winds down in a logical way as the soothing string arrangements and bird song of ‘an infinite thrum (archipelago)’ give way to the piano and more operatic singing of album closer ‘the abandoned colony collapsed my world.’
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The WireDec 20, 2021It’s darkly, powerfully feminine, exquisitely produced and haunted as fuck; maybe the best record she’s ever made. [Nov 2021, p.50]
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Dec 9, 2021Like nearly all of Calix's music, absent origin is complex and challenging, but it reflects an unmistakably unique perspective on the world.