Product Description

Ricardo Donoso has composed a new paradigm of ambient music, in which concrete textures and digital synthesis expand on an abstract world in constant movement and mutation. Under a chain of progressive rhythms, cinematic textures, and elegant melodicism, Donoso s work pushes through with piercing strength, manipulating a sonic wave through space with nothing but pulse and mind-blowing intensity. Although Donoso s work has coalesced into a much broader and more dynamic beast, his early work continues to be a source of inspiration. The Symmetry set compiles Donoso s first three albums, lovingly referred to as the Digitalis Trilogy, in a deluxe 3-CD edition.

Review

An expert at creating dark tension out of just a few sonic elements. --Pitchfork
A genre-defying electronic explorer. --exclaim.ca
This limited-edition box contains three previously-released albums by ambient composer Ricardo Donoso: Progress Chance (2011), Assimilating the Shadow (2012), and As Iron Sharpens Iron, One Verse Sharpens Another (2013). All of them feature dark, rather minimalist, and often slightly grouchy-sounding sound sculptures, some of them built on regular rhythms and coming close to industrial levels of beat specificity, and others much more abstract. All of it is quite beautiful, and Donoso is a talent very much worth keeping an eye on. If you try to order and find that the available stock is sold out, look for some of his other work: I particularly recommend the dark and foreboding Saravá Exu. Rick Anderson --CD Hotlist