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• LIEVEN MARTENS MOANA "IDYLLS" LP + BOOK

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  LIEVEN MARTENS MOANA'S NEW LP ON PACIFIC CITY:
  
  Since Lieven Martens Moana's(Dolphins Into The Future) last lp, the massively
  overlooked "Music from the Guardhouse", our composer has moved from the
  islands of Okinawa to the Swampland of Mexico City to the Portuguese
  countryside, running his Private Press, and composing music for ensemble and
  commercials. This very pluralistic life-style and commitment has led us to his first
  full length record in three years: "Idylls". Presented as a 12 page book with an LP
  disc, the listener first hears concentrated and intentional sound-prose poems of
  the life of Robert Louis Stevenson as Martens attempts to "see through the eyes
  of RLS". Because of Martens ability to poetically reflect Stevens' obsessions, we
  can hear field recordings, not just as documents, but as compositions and
  imaginative story-boards of a poets journals in the locales of Polynesia. As we flip
  sides we enter into the colorful and active aspect of Marten's palate. Flowing from
  active electronically treated thumb piano to tranquil serene alien piano, growing
  towards a rumbling volcano and settling into archaic Goldberg Variations by Mia
  Prce of Miaux, the listener is now startled by Captain Moana's refusal for his
  music to be pure inspired decoration, but instead a world of prose and storytelling.
  By now, we ask ourselves what has changed in the music of Lieven
  Martens Moana? Its is for certain on "Idylls", that with a Polynesian Fascination
  seemingly unchanged, the intellectual palate has grown so much, that what we
  have in front of us, are wildly colorful and intellectual compositions that seem to
  have arrived from a literary mode, and grown into pieces that have an illusively
  romantic allure. The uniqueness of "Idylls" rests upon the artists willingness to
  arrive at strange and difficult compositions by way of natural story-telling and
  inspired readings; Martens further exacts his process, away from just
  appreciating Polynesia, and into the act, that Gaugain and Stevenson might have
  enjoyed, of symbiotic immersion. We can for certain hear from the Captain
  himself:
  "Being("Idylls") a portrait, an ethnographic study, an exotic illustration and a ritual. The latter
  used in the most mundane sense ever, since I’d like to stay far away from a sensational
  bubblegum approach to (religious) ethnography, to the copying of ethnic behaviour, or to
  approaching it as something odd or weird. These behaviourisms unavoidably invoke the end of
  all rituals, thus making the world a duller place. As being interested in the exotic, (c.q. the
  exotist), an act under constant scrutiny, it is a duty to observe and sustain, to withdraw and
  refrain.”
  Pacific City Sound VIsions is extremely stoked to present the new works by
  Lieven Martens Moana, in the year 2017, as we continue to grow and expand with
  an artist revelling in pushing his initially beautiful instincts to a point where they
  begin to be outright living intellectual endeavors.
  -Spencer Clark, Pacific City Antwerp, Belgium
  
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