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Motion Reverse (Digital)

by Benjamin Finger

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1.
Vocal Limited 03:08
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2.
Frontal Waves 04:46
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3.
Dubstore Light 07:44
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4.
Childish Tape (feat. Eva Jacobsen on tape) 04:03
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5.
Black Hat 04:56
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6.
Sunny Echoes 07:35
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7.
Spacecore Dust 05:23
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8.
Bright Exit 04:52
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9.
Dream Logic 06:13
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"With the dust only just settling from the release of the delicate ambient textures of “Pleasurably Lost" on Eilean Rec. in april, Benjamin Finger returns with “Motion Reverse” on Shimmering Moods Records. Coming from someone in an apparent state of creative overdrive “Motion Reverse” is a surprisingly singular and coherent body of work that comes off as a bit of a side mission for an artist that has made “Onward!” his very own artistic slogan. “Motion Reverse” escapes the possible limitations implied by such a guiding imperative and sees an artist that, in accordance with the title, perhaps steps back a bit and completes a puzzle envisioned from pieces and patterns scattered around in his previous work.
The result is a refreshing and nicely schedueld departure from Finger's overall artistic journey, I soon and very readily referred to it as “the dirty dub album” and that is indeed how I like to quickly sum it up in my mind tenfolds of listens later.
There is a playful hands-on approach at work here, immediately evident on the opening track “Vocal Limited”, where Finger creates melodic and rhythmic patterns by performing a vocal sample through time variations on what appears to be a tape delay.
The following two tracks - “Frontal Waves” and “Dubstore Light” - mirrors each other and form a hypnotic, shimmering and pulsating dub-suite on their own that sounds like the classic dub of Basic Channel psychedelically reimagined, with the ghost of early Seefeel chanting in the background. “Childish Tape” is a playful interim with a sample of a child in joyous self discovery before the first half of the album is summed up and dissolved in “Black Hat”.
The second half of the album is more neatly organized in melodic pieces, still with a strong foundation in dub. “Sunny Echoes” and “Spacecore Dust” have - titles aside - a nice nocturnal feel to them, both with a lovely reminiscence of stuff we used to find on releases from labels like Skam and Source back in the nineties and the latter admittedly being an Autechre tribute.
The album then closes with two tracks - "Bright Exit", that sounds like a subtly sung phonetic blues about the massive and grand finale of the drone-like massive synth washes of “Dream Logic".
The artwork is done by Benjamin himself and the Super 8 mm stills are from his visual work: «Loops The Loop», which was screened at Smith ́s Row Gallery in the UK and at Cinema Neuf in Norway 2013".

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released June 26, 2015

All music written, composed and performed by Frank Benjamin Finger. Voice-Loops by Eva Jacobsen and Inga-Lill Farstad. Released on CD by Shimmering Moods Records (www.shimmeringmoods.com).

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Benjamin Finger Oslo, Norway

Benjamin Finger was educated at Oslo Photo Art School and UIB before he started to study film to become a director. He has done several short films, music videos and various photo exhibitions, besides working for television, NRK. He is now a freelancer and have been composing music since 2005. ... more

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