Cyclotimia - TimeBank [CD]

Cyclotimia
"TimeBank"

CD (ltd. 500)
ZHB-XXIII

1. Bank Lounge 1 [mp3]
2. Toyota
3. Magiclerx
4. Going Down
5. Bloomberg TV
6. Venture
7. Eighties' Demon
8. Bank Lounge 2
9. Nocturne [mp3]
10. Oil-for-Food
11. Office
12. Ask Dow Jones
13. WSJ Theme
14. Bankomat [mp3]
15. Media
16. Economic Meditation [live]

total length: 49:02
release date: December 30, 2009


* bandcamp.com
* cyclotimia.com "TimeBank" is a collection of exclusive compositions recorded by Cyclotimia in 2003-2007 and for some reasons left out of the main albums. The material presented here is hard to fit in the Procrustean bed of common musical styles, but we can try to list the ingredients from which this post-industrial "dish" was cooked: both cyber jazz and idm, neoclassics and trademark technological ambient, old-school electronics and atmospheric new age, experimental and many more can be found here...

Despite the seeming stylistic incompatibility the band succeeded in creating a self-sufficient album with a spectacular plot no worse than a good Hollywood thriller. A special jewel of the disk is the track "Nocturne" combining aerial melodies and uneasy sonic "cinematography". Also worth mentioning is the "live" 10-minute prog-industrial suite "Economic Meditation", imbued with psychedelic dramatism.

Words written about the band several years ago remain true even today: "While actively using the possibilities of analogue and vintage equipment Cyclotimia creates unique soundscapes, suspenseful and sublime at the same time. Not so many projects can successfully implement such impressively "cold" atmospheres and, despite being "technological", fill the sound with such a deep humanistic sense." ["Audio Video Saloon" magazine]