drone music

under his guises blessed initiative and ketev, as well as his own name, composer and sound artist yair elazar glotman has explored extended techniques and processes to forge new sonic textures and musical forms. compound picks up where the previous solo work under glotman’s own name - 2015’s Études - left off. the acoustic sound palette has now expanded from solo contrabass into a trio including pianist rieko okuda and percussionist marcello silvio busato.

subtext recordings presents the soundtrack by james ginzburg and yair elazar glotman produced for the collaborative installation *nimbes*, developed with joanie lemercier for the 360 degree dome in montreals sat centre. the release is accompanied by a remix from eric holm, reforming the material through his dense custom created signal chains, and a remix from yair elazar glotman who extracts the essence of the original recording and sculpts it into an adeptly controlled vista of sound.

in a scenario of overwhelming number of instruments, musicians often do not take the time to deepen and explore the creative possibilities of each gear they possess. one instrument aims at counter-acting this tendency by challenging and limiting each artist in producing a composition by using only one instrument of their choice.

blessed initiative is a project by yair elazar glotman, which suggests a dissonant, coexistent state of extreme highs and lows. the album attempts to articulate a mental state of simultaneity, in which equilibrium is fleeting, fragile, and its scarcity is embraced.

limited edition of 300 copies, housed in a screen printed sleeve. includes a download code.
the flawed wonders that yair elazar glotman puts forth on his latest opus i know no weekend are the coldest dreams you would ever wish to immerse yourself in. they recall echoes of echoes, forced into slowly struggling shapes, ghosts of memories, whispers of life from another dimension. shamanic-repetitive beats shift slowly beneath echoing bells and fragments of past transmissions. overwhelmingly, one is taken into upon a winding mental path, with no clear resolution in sight, although the journey is ever-evolving and new.

ketev is the realm in which berlin based sound artist yair elazar glotman employs his unique ambient technoid soundscapes to explore the balance between darkness and light, fragility and strength, and tension and release. ‘traces of weakness’ follows up the solo contrabass lp ‘Études’ for subtext records, and continues to expand on the themes explored on previous ketev albums for where to now? and opal tapes. ‘traces of weakness’ was recorded at ems stockholm using their buchla modular synth, and processed with reel-to-reel tape manipulations including personal archived field recordings. the sleeve photography comes courtesy of yair’s father, the artist yehoshua shuka glotman.

basic unit are yair etziony (vermont) & shlomi avni (dj sola) pioneers of the israeli electronic music scene, and production partners since 2005. their debut release for fine art takes no prisoners, 4 tracks of jackin minimal tech. remixes from gary beck & pedro cali bring out the detroit elements from the original track and works them into a late night dancefloor frenzy.