TRAJECT

Location:
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Type:
Artist / Band / Musician
Site(s):
Label:
Spezial Material, Creative Space
Type:
Indie
New album: Birting



Digital download of the album is available on here



Immediate download of 13-track album in your choice of 320k mp3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire, for a very resonable price bought straight from the artist. One track (0718) is free to download.



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Details on availability from Creative Space:



Traject's new work, his first release for creative space, has finally hit the uk shops, unfortunately is sold out at many (boomkat, etc) from the first couple of days, so if you cannot find a copy at your favourite record shop you should either wait for restocks or mail us at creativespace@tellas.gr and order a copy for 12e + postage There still copies at rough trade for uk, ad noiseam has copies for our german customers and soon n5md will carry the title for our fans in the states. Uk distribution handled by Cargo. Copies can be found in the independent record shops in athens, zulu recs, vinyl microstore, 360. There is also going to be a very limited pressing of the album on vinyl, 200 copies, more info on this edition in the following weeks.



Traject is the artist name of Icelander Gísli Þór Guðmundsson.



In 2004 I released a track called 'Laroche & Dolson' for UK label Ai Records on their Station LP (Compilation). That was my first official release. In 2004 I released my debut album "Strengir Hrynja" on Swiss label Spezial Material. The album was 6 tracks clocking in at about 40 min. running time and released as an LP despite its short length.

Strengir Hrynja did well for itself, sweeping up great reviews in the electronic press. In 2009 I released my second album Birting for the Greek label Creative Space.



Reviews for Birting:



Cyclic Defrost



When I bring to mind the music of Iceland, I can’t help but think of epic pop or twee music-box styled experiments. It’s a pleasant surprise then, that Gisli Thor Gudmundsson, aka Traject, draws inspiration not from the current crop of Icelandic superstars, but seemingly from the subarctic landscape itself.

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A stunning collection of glacial IDM from Traject.



Boomkat



Excellent electronics from the Greek Creative Space imprint, basically picking up where Spezial Material left off with a new album from Icelandic producer Traject. We've heard very little from Traject for a few years, and his fans will be very pleased to know that his style of maudlin post-techno electronics is still as dark and intricate as ever. 'Penrose' initiates the session with a tense composition of cinematic atmospheres and contorting rhythm mechanics, both fluid and concrete. 'Bjart er yfir' follows with more doomy atmospherics of the widescreen and epic kind, weaving in whispered utterances and slow tribal drumming for the full effect. 'Samkoman' toys with minimal techno rhythms in a spatially screwed style similar to Vladislav Delay, while 'The Horns Are Gone' sets out to sea on pitching electro rhythms and ominous strings. There's a sense of narrative that ties the album togther as a complete package and the production levels are certainly intricate and complex enough to undergo intense scrutiny from the home listening crew. Fans of Robert Logan, Oberman Knocks or the old Spezial Material/Skam sound will love this.



Scannerfm.com



80th spot on top 100 albums of 2009 (scannerfm.com)

-- www.scannerfm.com/lo-mejor-de-2009/discos-internacionales-2009/



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goaconstrictor.com



I am not a massive fan of a lot of glitchy noise music. There is so much drone and glitch music that reminds me of a 6-year-old falling asleep while holding down a note on a keyboard, but then there are the artists who can expertly craft a world of tones and beats that dance along rhythm that can entrance your mind in a way that a basic four-on-the-floor could never do.



Traject’s album “Birting” is an album that blends discordant beats with a symphony of hypnotic tones. It is glitchy in an Open-Field-Sunrise-With-Boards-Of-Canada sort of way. The album sounds like a haunted house, creeping and echoing all around you as you try to navigate your way to door. Acoustic instruments echoing from distant rooms of the house being played by -or possessed by- ghosts. Not mean ghosts. Confused and scared ghosts. The ghosts don’t know what is going on or where they are at, so they start blending sounds to create a state of trance in an effort to conjure up the spirits who might have the answers that they are searching for.



Having this album back in my life is like finding the missing page that was previously torn out of my book of hymns.



While the discordant tones and industrial soundscapes that get woven into the fabric of these enchantments might be too much for some to handle, I know it will be perfect for many. Once you hear it and begin digesting it, you may discover that this album has been missing from your own ghost-filled world as well.

-- goaconstrictor.com



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resident-music.com



This is an incredible record that starts out with dark bass tones that wouldn’t have been out of place on burial’s debut before moving into the kind of murky soundscapes that murcof creates & exploring the more beaty & glitchy idm end of things, recalling the likes of autechre, gescom & aphex twin but somewhat starker.

With 14 tracks of ice cold electronics, ritualistic ambient techno & obscure rhythmical experiments, ‘birting’ is seriously some of the most epically impressive left-field electronica we’ve heard for ages. Highly recommended.

-- resident-music.com



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side-line.com

"Birting" has a lot to offer and will possibly please a wider audience moving from ambient to experimental freaks.

-- side-line.com



Reviews for Strengir Hrynja:



"This superb debut from Icelander Gisli Thor Gudmundsson is a small masterpiece of abstract, deep sea Techno, recalling the golden moments of 90s Intelligent Dance Music as purveyed by Autechre and Ken Ishii.

Traject displays the same uncanny sleight of hand, his music constantly folding itself into new shapes, particularly on the extraordinary "Path".



The whole album is faboulously produced - there's an immense sonic depth and range on display in these pieces, a hyperreal opulence that makes for an experience almost too delicous to indulge in without feeling quilty"

-- Keith Moliné, THE WIRE (issue 244, june 2004)"



- THE WIRE



"Strengir Hrynja represents a peak for Traject but also for the relatively new Zurich label Spezial Material.

Certainly it’s indebted to Autechre and Gescom for its general style but Gudmundsson

boldly pushes the album into an even more challenging realm of cold, abstract IDM.

Listening to it, one marvels at its construction, while being simultaneously

awed by its alien sonic universe."



- Stylus Magazine B+



The emphasis here is on robust, icy, deeply icelandic electronic fragmentation, inevitably bringing to mind Autechre at their most condensed. "Water For Muddy People" unfolds and opens the set with aquatic emphasis, slowed-up layers of percussion that take their time settling down with a discernable groove, a cacophony of drenched noises and soundscaping making for a hypnotic, trance-like listen through digital oceans of sound. "Chkal" is killer - a rotating snap of shattered beats and hammered strings orchestrated in the darkest tradition of IDM - a squashed haze of melody and beats littered with a sparing scatter of voice and distant MC rhymes. Awesome.



Fans of Autechre's EP7 and the more dancefloor focused Gescom will find much to admire here - Spezial material continues to build its impressive and highly collectable catalogue. Deep.



- Boomkat.com - Album of the week



"Með þessari frumraun sinni hefur Gísli Þór Guðmundsson skotist í fremstu röð íslenskra raftónlistarmanna.

Hljóðaheimur hans er fjölskrúðugur og hugmyndaflugið óstöðvandi.

Þessi plata hans er ekkert léttmeti en á henni talsvert af

músík sem ætti að falla flestum raftónlistarvinum í geð."



- Morgunblaðið 5/5
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