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Paper Streets

by Sven Laux

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'Sven Laux’s “Paper Streets” is a deeply intimate and vulnerable affair. Released on the Russian label Dronarivm, Sven paints minimal landscapes with watercolours in shades of violin, cello & piano; stripped bare & soaked in memory.

The artist’s works bares a sense of detachment & reflection that usually occurs with the passing of time. Forlorn irony shows itself as it reminds you what feels like to fall in love for the first time, while conjuring ghosts from the last time you shared a gaze.

A departure from Sven’s earlier work, “Paper Streets” is an organic, neo-classical journey heard through a cinematic lens. Orchestral notes surge like tides and resonate like heartache. Nostalgia echoes and dissolves with a disarming vulnerability.'
- Michael A. Armstrong
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'[...] Paper Streets is not so much an isolationist ambient work because the soundscapes are built via majestic arching textures, repetition and melody. If you are into modern classical music and spacious, beatless cinematic ambient, this album is for you. Recommended for fans of Arvo Part, Hilmar Hilmarsson, Loscil, Deaf Center et al.'
- www.igloomag.com
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'A paper street is a road or street that appears on maps but does not exist in reality. Here veteran German musician, DJ, & producer Sven Laux takes us on an organic neoclassical journey into imagined wide-screen landscapes awash in swells of violin, cello & piano. Bursting with cinematic flourish, but with a restrained minimalist core serving as the ballast that keeps it grounded.'
- stationarytravels.wordpress.com
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'[...] In this I feel this music is related to that of Field Rotation, Bersarin Quartett and maybe A Winged Victory For The Sullen. It’ll definitely appeal to the same audience. But in fact Sven Laux does not need comparisons like that at all: he claims his very own spot – one that will become a reference point for others probably soon.'
- www.ambientblog.net
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'[...] Music that sounds like the fading of daylight, but no doubt that is an image that just came up as I was watching outside for a bit while contemplating the meditative nature of the music. The titles of Laux’s pieces aren’t always the most optimistic ones, to say the least; ‘I Wish I Could Sleep’, ‘From Sadness To You’, ‘The Lost Violin’ or ‘Are You Still With Me?’ but throughout I would think this music is sad and melancholic, yet not necessarily without a shred of light; it is just not easy to see, I guess. Laux is one man that sounds like a chamber orchestra; long live technology I guess and he does a great job.'
- www.vitalweekly.net
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'[...] A beautiful new recording from Germany’s Sven Laux makes clear there are other ways to build texture into electronic music. Laux adds violin, cello, piano and gentle noise elements that turn what would otherwise be a rather dated-sounding album into a genuinely magnificent collection of eight new works. [...]'
- www.themoderns.blog
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released November 3, 2017

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originally released on Dronarivm
www.dronarivm.com

mastered by Tobias Lorsbach
www.tobias-lorsbach.de

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Sven Laux Berlin, Germany

German electronic ambient composer and freelance sound designer

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