Water From Air

Water is the element of life: life on earth was started in water and it was only later that it conquered the land. Even there it is always a necessary basis so that everything remains live. Do we therefore still feel today attracted by water landscapes so as magnet? Die Plitvice Lakes in Croatia is a location, where water demonstrates its totally fascinating power and beauty. The existence of this landscape of lakes is due to the fascinating interaction of different natural powers.

The first three volumes of the Air series are high-water marks for Pete Namlook. Like the Silence series they show some rich ethnic and neo-classical leanings, and they remain particularly effective examples of how he uses live acoustic instruments in an electronic setting. The delicate, tinkling cymbals and soft tom-tom beats on "Je suis seule et triste ici" from Air I (1993), for instance, are utterly refreshing because Namlook is able to maintain a deep electronic ambient feel while still expanding electronica's instrumental vocabulary.
Air II (1994) is deeply psychedelic. An eleven-part "trip" subtitled "Traveling Without Moving", it takes it's thematic cue from Frank Herbert's cult sci-fi novel and movie Dune…