Beginning his career as a pioneering early synthesist and teacher of computer music, over the past four decades Miguel Noya has contributed greatly to the cultural landscape of Venezuela, and yet before this reissue his music has been largely underheard outside his homeland. His transcendental, deeply intellectual take on MIDI sequencing represents a fiercely singular approach, imbibing the 1980’s Western world’s then-burgeoning ambient-electronic scene with a unique environmental gravitas and vibrant tropical colour. A brand new compilation of highlights, Canciónes Intactas finally allows us a rare and invaluable window into the strange, isolated lands from which so many uncommon, synthetic, delicate gems have been formed, made of magical and mythologic Latin American secrets.
Inspired by both the Werner Herzog documentary, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, and her own time working near the Chauvet Cave in southern France, Agathe Max's new album 'Rêves Perdus' is a subterranean journey into deep history and the inner worlds of the mind.
The result is a dark, strange and evocative album that moves between moments of ambient beauty, hushed vocals and vivid drama conjured by Agathe's violin. The fourth release on Modern Aviation, 'Rêves Perdus' will be released on 22 February on digital and limited edition numbered tape.