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Ypsmael
„[…] Beautiful. Two delicate pieces of highly atmospheric music […] Some eleven minutes is the total time of this record, and that’s way too short. Each side could have lasted longer, and I would have enjoyed it all the same, so maybe doing an album with more of this concert (or, if appropriate, from this period) would be most welcome."
Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly (Netherlands), 2024
"[...] Seven pieces cloaked in dense and dark atmospheres [...] gorgeous atmospheres to unfold, wrapped in infinite loops. Ypsmael skilfully weaves the creation of evocative soundscapes as haunting as they are poignant."
Guillermo Escudero, Loop Music Magazine (Chile), 2024
„[...] Ypsmael stops short of producing old-fashioned “noise”, and remains true to exploring the grains and textures of his materials; it’s that genius in the build-up [...] I think he has the potential to create a very distinctive language of his own. Promising."
Ed Pinsent, The Sound Projector Magazine (UK), 2022
Smaely P
„[...] The studio as an instrument, cooking up surrealistic pieces of music. Throughout, there is a solid musical thread in these pieces, which makes it less electro-acoustic improvisations and more something, well, for the lack of a better word, musical. [...] Smaely P knows what he’s doing.
A very refined album."
Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly (Netherlands), 2023
„An opulent, raw, almost physical piece, a tour de force, a confrontation [...] just like the powerful soundscape, in constant motion. [...] A sound composition that creates powerful images of two worlds [...].’"
Award Jury, Hörspielwiese Köln (Germany), 2022
(Text: D. Irtenkauf; Composition & Realisation: SmaelyP)
Krausen Ypsmael
„Black Forest enigma”
Rigo Dittmann, Bad Alchemy Magazine (Germany), 2024
„[…] It has that somewhat more improvised feeling of musique concrète approaches but lacks the refinement to make it that kind of thing. [...] I prefer the rough ‘n tumble of this over, as things can’t always be all too refined."
Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly (Netherlands), 2024
(Painting: S. Krausen, Music: Ypsmael)
Eloine + Ypsmael
„[...] Electroacoustic music, veering towards the noise end of things while maintaining clarity in sounds, which is a rare thing. They hit, scratch and scrape but keep their music together all along, i.e. it sounds less improvised, which I enjoy very much. The music reminds me of AMM, Morphogenesis, Kapotte Muziek and Kontakta."
Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly (Netherlands), 2023
„[...] The beautiful yet unprecious recording and the bounty of friction throughout Lost Teeth bring to mind a compact, super-portable Nuova Consonanza. [...] The homemade instrument, the field recording, the non-musical object, and the musical instrument manipulated outside the bounds of tradition propriety serve the needs of these two freedom-lickers [...]"
S. Glass, Tedium House (USA), 2022
[...] Something far darker, the sound of two cracked minds trying to locate their inner black boxes via the medium of live electro-acoustic scrambling & rummaging. Murky fruit indeed. [...]
Dylan Nyoukis, Chocolate Monk (UK), 2025