{"product_id":"coen-oscar-polack-a-concrete-pasture","title":"COEN OSCAR POLACK – A CONCRETE PASTURE","description":"\u003cp\u003eTitle:\u003cspan\u003e A Concrete Pasture\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eArtist:\u003cspan\u003e Coen Oscar Polack\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eLabel: Moving Furniture Records\u003cbr\u003eGenre: \u003cspan\u003eAmbient, Experimental\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eCatalog number:\u003cspan\u003e MFR107\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eFormat: 12\"\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Media: Near Mint \/ Sleeve: Near Mint\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘A Concrete Pasture’ by Coen Oscar Polack is the follow-up to ‘Haarlemmerhout’ (2020), an album named after a park close to his home in Haarlem in the Netherlands. ‘A Concrete Pasture’ brings Polack’s interest in exploring the larger world around him back into his music. Polack is a magician in combining field recordings from all over the world, be it a temple in Bangkok, the Dutch Wadden Islands or a the percussive Gamelan instruments, and electronic processing of these recordings. With all these ingredients he creates a vivid, nostalgic, futuristic but familiar world of sounds and emotions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt first, the colors of the recordings seem scattered, the sounds unrelated, but there is a deeper train of thought running through the music. It is the persistent impression of a travelogue; of places, family and friends, helping Polack in co-creating his music. In ‘Cuore Nero’, nostalgic powerchords are composed into tapestries of ambient-noise, ‘Unseen Shores’ uses a recomposed recording of Polack’s children on the Dutch island of Schiermonnikoog and develops into visceral, almost spiritual music, and a field recording of Wat Po in Bangkok in ‘Phra Buddhasaiyas’ becomes a luminous homage that the incorporated guitar sound burns into your skull.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhile listening, it becomes evident that Polack is being reflective in auditive images and memory, giving a meaning to a music that is liberated of its formalities and charged with a poignant imagery by transformation, one that is bright and lucid and respects the process from recording until ornamentation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe longest piece of the album ‘Kraaiennest’, starts with the recording of a Hong Kong traffic light, later to be cut up and transformed into a technoid Musique Concrète piece, with a slow progression into a warm crescendo-decrescendo themed electroacoustic piece, which takes on a life on its own. The finale is Polack on this tenor saxophone putting a stamp on the completion of his work, a performance reminiscing of the raw expressiveness of Albert Ayler.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘A Concrete Pasture’ points to a landscape, or to a person’s current situation in life. Coen Oscar Polack did himself justice by writing an elegant, vibrant album, a tribute to his reflection of reality, his aesthetics, and with raw authenticity and skill, leaving a great space for the audience’s imagination.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 274px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2420743907\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/movingfurniturerecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/a-concrete-pasture\"\u003eA Concrete Pasture by Coen Oscar Polack\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Second Hand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61694619812170,"sku":"2339","price":18.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/8187\/0154\/files\/cc_front_a441a9b1-80ba-4f78-8579-31395ac8dece.jpg?v=1776954911","url":"https:\/\/chippychasers-recordstore.com\/products\/coen-oscar-polack-a-concrete-pasture","provider":"Chippy Chasers Record Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}