NEWS
26/9/2008
We're on the look out for a talented designer to add to the team, for more info please e-mail contact@serein.co.uk with a link to your portfolio.
1/9/2008
Hear ye, new release online by The Inventors of Aircraft, science fiction for the modern day man, release number seventeen is sure to please.
17/6/2008
Normal service resumed - all oustanding orders have now shipped - thanks for your patience
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REVIEW OF SER014
Review by Tokafi
http://www.tokafi.com/newsitems/net-decks-23/
In the former paragraph, I mentioned Serein and shame on me for not reviewing their material earlier. I can at least defend myself by claiming that this feature was originally going to focus exclusively on techno, minimal and related styles – genres, which are obviously far from the electro-acoustic soundscapes at the border of sleeping and waking that the label has excelled in since its inception two years ago. With its fourteenth release, Serein comes full-circle for the first time. Muhr, after all, was the protagonist behind the very first digital EP on the label and has published with Miasmah, Fenetre, Zymogen and Kahvi in the meantime before returning. “Pussiere”, a collection of five slowly simmering tracks, is now said to be his most personal EP. Switching between silent string arrangements and rusty beats, scraping cliffs of distortion and melancholy, it is certainly a disturbing, sensual and emotive work which searches for a mood and then stays put. Muhr is a poet, but he eschews lyrics of banale beauty. “Quiet Words and Forgotten Trees” stumbles on splintered glass and a chopped guitar riff, “Dead Leaves” crunches and stutters. Haunting synthesizer chords are continously trying to shine through the desperate and sharp-edges constructs made of futuristic nightmares and naive glockenspiel tinklings. An uneasy release, which stretches the meaning of the word “Dark Ambient” to extremes. Midnight music for bad dreams.