Arev Konn – Nospelt

Press material

• Conch 008 – release sheet (PDF)
• Conch 008 – release sheet (TXT)
• Conch 008 – cover front (TIF, CMYK, 300dpi)
• Conch 008 – cover back (TIF, CMYK, 300dpi)
• Conch 008 – cover inside (TIF, CMYK, 300dpi)
• Conch 008 – cover front (JPG, RGB, 72dpi)
• Conch 008 – cover back (JPG, RGB, 72dpi)
• Conch 008 – cover inside (JPG, RGB, 72dpi)

Reviews
normanrecords.com
Antony Harrison aka Kontinnent AKA Arev Konn has had a bunch of releases out on a few labels over the last years. Namely labels such as Sonic Pieces, Symbolic Interaction, Home Normal, Awkward Silence, Debacle and now Humming Conch. Busy lad like! Here he leaves his more familiar drifty territory with his new project Arev Konn. This veers along a more experimental sound art tip and I guess it isn’t a million miles away from the likes of Machinefabriek and other such frequency masters. The album throbs along and pulses with strange tonal noises popping in for a coffee all the while occasional bursts of noise will appear from behind some biscuits and make you dunk the fucker. It’s a dangerous job this but someone’s gotta do it! I’m particularly enjoying ‘A History In the Pine’ as the music bobs from speaker to speaker and it’s making me feel a bit dizzy. I like it when records do that. A thoroughly interesting listen which will have you gripped and you’ll see a different side to Mr. Harrison you’ve not seen before.

boomkat.com
Arev Konn is the noisier side-project of London master of drone Antony Harrison, and shows another facet to his production skill. While haunting white-noise flecked drones may have graced many of his releases already – ‘Nospelt’ is the first to feature noise so prominently and does so with an effortless expertise. Apparently the album was conceived and written in January 2010’s ‘big freeze’ and certainly this translates well to the music, which is as blissfully cold and glacial as Mika Vaino in a plunge pool with Thomas Koner. Harrison adds a little more fizz to the mix though; on top of the oscillators and customary field recordings there are distant drum beats, half-heard synthesizers and even piano. When the final piece ‘False Starts’ decomposes from clouds of noise into simple, unprocessed solo piano it feels totally right, and is the icing on the cake of an already arresting listen. Very good stuff indeed.

Vital Weekly (FdW)
Antony Harrison is Arev Konn, and if I’m to believe the press text he is best known as Konntinent, which had releases on Home Normal, Sonic Pieces, Sweet Lodge Guro and such labels, but which I never heard. Harrison choose a new name for more abstract and abrasive work, which is what Arev Konn is all about. Its however not really the sort of noise that is, well, ‘real noise’, but using guitars, synthesizers, field recordings, piano and violin are used to create something that is indeed quite abstract. Part of that is due to the analogue cassette techniques he uses and also a 60s reel-to-reel machine. Things burst and bubble, scratch the surface and bounce up and down. Quite an interesting album, I’d say, and one that fits the current wave of noise musicians which opt for a more intelligent sound, adding such things as dynamics. Arev Konn can be loud, although never really loud, but also very soft and introspective. No instruments can be really detected (except for the piano on ‘False Starts’) as they are all transformed beyond recognition. The six pieces are fine mixtures of electro-acoustic processing, noise based outbursts, drone patterns and together make up a damn fine album. Certainly a name to watch out for in the future. (FdW)

Rockerilla, April 2011
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Radio Nacional de España, RNE 3 Atmosfera, 10.04.2010, 2.00-4.00
Nospelt es el Nuevo trabajo de Arev Konn para el sello Humming Conch. Seis tracks oscuros, de atmósfera densa y ruidista.
Arev Konn es el nuevo experimento de Antony Harrison de Londres, Reino Unido, que muchos conoceréis por su trabajo más consolidado: Konntinent.
Su trabajo como artista sonoro le ha llevado a compartir escenario con Machinefabriek, Scott Simon, Jasper TX o Mira Calix, entre otros muchos.
“Nospelt ‘ te inunda en un baño de arreglos muy cuidados de sonido y ruido. A través de un proceso con cinta magnética, utilizando una máquina de Cassete del año 80 y después volviendo a grabar a bobina con una máquina de 1960, Arev hace pasar por este tamiz tan especial guitarras, sintetizadores analógicos y grabadora de sonidos de mano.
La grabación del disco se hizo durante la gran helada de enero de 2010 e incluye sonidos que fueron descubiertos por el ex miembro de la banda Konntinent Pit Weber.