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Review/ V.A.: "Volume IX: One Day We Will All Live Under the Sea"

  Tobias

Olafur Arnalds, whose Kiasmos-split with Rival Consols is featured in this issue of „Net Decks“, is also one of the artists to shine on "One Day...", the latest installment of The Silent Ballet's download compilations. Now entering its second succesful year, the sampler-series collaboratively compiled by the online magazine and the Lost Children Netlabel, has already reached its 9th volume and spans artists from both the cc-license/netlabel scene and the „commercial“ creative world.

Those who still believe in a quality-raft between the free-download ideology and the pay-for-artistry camps, will probably not bother to give this 13-part collection a listen anyway, but to the open-eared will of course know what they're missing: From the opening drone of The Dead Sea's „Nulla Desiderata“ and the almost unbearably intimate chambermusical thunderstorm of Bersarin Quartet's „Mehr als alles Andere“ to Rudi Arapahoe's juxtaposition of mediaeval elements and ambient atmospheres, the album presents the experimental scene in all of its colourful diversity.

The focus is firmly on slighly melancholic mood-work, which may disturb those desperately praying for the arrival of Summer but win over the hearts of all those relishing the last, beautifully depressed days of Spring.
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