Laced / Unlaced
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March 9, 2007 |
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Double CD |
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22nd |
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74 min 33 s (CD 1) |
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Emilie Autumn |
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Laced / Unlaced is the fourth studio album by the American musician Emilie Autumn . It was released on March 9, 2007 on the Trisol label . The double album includes 22 instrumental pieces. The first CD Laced is a re-release of their debut album On a Day ... with classical music from baroque composers and also contains five live tracks. The second CD Unlaced consists of self-composed electronic music that was recorded with a synthesizer and electric violin .
Emergence
Shortly after the release of Autumn's third studio album Opheliac in late 2006, the EP Liar / Dead Is the New Alive was released in January 2007 , with the two album titles "Liar" and "Dead Is the New Alive", as well as numerous remixes of the same. With the final track "Unlaced" the EP also contained a preview of the new album announced for March 2007, on which the track was finally recorded (in a slightly modified form).
As a contrast to the actually new album Unlaced and its characteristic, distorted electric violin sound, Autumn decided to add her debut album On a Day… , recorded in 1997 at the age of 17 and released in 2000 on her own label Traitor Records , to the album as a re-release.
“I felt that it made a nice contrast to the metal shredding fiddle album," Unlaced ", and there was really nothing I could do that was more at the polar end of things. I also loved that it was the perfect representation of "then" versus "now". ”
"I felt as a nice contrast to the Metal - Shredding -Geigen album" Unlaced "and there was really nothing I could do, which would have been entgegensätzlicher. I also really liked that it was the perfect representation of "then" versus "today". "
The double album was finally released on March 9, 2007 as a hardcover edition limited to 2,000 copies in DIN A5 format with a 20-page booklet containing pictures of the artist and her electric violin as well as personal illustrations such as handwritten sheet music , drawings and notes contains. After this edition was sold out, the album was re-released on June 15, 2007 as a jewelcase version.
music
Characteristic for the music of both parts of the album is the renunciation of any singing as well as the central importance of the instruments violin and harpsichord , which were recorded acoustically on Laced and electronically amplified or synthetically generated on Unlaced.
Laced
As a re-release of their debut album On a Day… , Laced Autumn's early classical music training on the violin and other string instruments reflects. In addition to nine compositions by baroque composers such as Arcangelo Corelli , Diego Ortiz , Johann Sebastian Bach and Jean-Marie Leclair , Laced also contains five self-composed pieces that are musically based on the former and were composed by Autumn at the age of 17. The last five pieces declared as bonus tracks are live recordings of a concert in 1997. Autumn himself plays the baroque violin on Laced while she is supported by her accompanying musicians, the Parlor Rats , on the lute , the baroque cello and the harpsichord .
Unlaced
After Autumn combined her original style with elements of electronic music on her album Opheliac , she developed this style even further on Unlaced . So that is electric violin is no longer only used as an accompanying instrument, but is the characteristic feature of the music, especially due to the highly distorted , sound the Autumn by the normally only found on electric guitars Applied Shredding generated -Spieltechnik. The resulting similarity of sound to metal music means that it is often wrongly assumed that the music was played with an electric guitar. The artist herself often speaks of her "shredolin" (word play from "shredding" and "violin") and describes her music as violindustrial or Victoriandustrial , although there is only limited proximity to industrial .
Unlaced is characterized above all by the almost continuous interplay of harpsichord and e-violin as well as the rhythm based on breakbeats or drum-and-bass elements . In contrast to Laced, the harpsichord was simulated electronically with a synthesizer and the overall sound was distorted / changed with various effects devices . Only the last track “Face the Wall”, conceived as an electric violin solo , dispenses with these elements and also represents a musical recourse to Laced's first track (“La Folia”), as various themes are varied from it .
reception
Laced / Unlaced received mostly positive reviews from critics. Particular emphasis was placed on the “extremely successful composition of graphics and sound , [as well as] classical and modern music”, which, like the album, do not have to represent irreconcilable opposites. This is mainly due to the artist's outstanding skills in dealing with acoustic violins and electric violins. On Laced, the skilful interpretation and the individual arrangement of the classical pieces show Autumn's compositional talent at a young age. The later Unlaced, composed, recorded and produced by Autumn single-handedly, was executed flawlessly and excellently succeeded despite the missing vocals (which is actually characteristic of Autumn's music).
As with the previous album Opheliac, Autumn's preference for Japanese visual kei or J-rock bands such as Malice Mizer or Moi dix Mois can be recognized both in the music and in the design . The elaborate and personal design of the extensive booklet, especially in the form of the hardcover edition of the limited edition, was also very well received.
Track list
Unless otherwise stated, all titles were written, recorded and produced by Emilie Autumn.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ vampirefreaks.com: Interview with Emilie Autumn . Retrieved December 16, 2009.
- ↑ a b discogs.com: Emilie Autumn - Laced / Unlaced . Retrieved December 16, 2009.
- ↑ a b nicolathinks.wordpress.com: Review of Laced / Unlaced . Retrieved December 16, 2009.
- ↑ emilieautumn.com: Laced / Unlaced ( Memento of the original dated November 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved December 16, 2009.
- ↑ a b cabaret-noir.de Review on Laced / Unlaced . Retrieved December 16, 2009.
- ↑ infrarot.de: Review of Laced / Unlaced . Retrieved December 16, 2009.
Web links
- Official website of Emilie Autumn
- Laced / Unlaced on Allmusic (English)