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The Cure’s ‘A Forest’ is one of those songs that you’ll be familiar with even if you’ve never knowingly put the record on. A masterpiece of Gothic rock, the track is one of the band’s early masterpieces and a cornerstone of their catalogue - indeed, ‘A Forest’ has been played in concert by Robert Smith et al more than a thousand times.
To mark the 40th anniversary of this release, veteran electronic composer Carsten Nicolai AKA Alva Noto has created a mesmerising cover version. In The Cure’s hands ‘A Forest’ was dark, urgent and poppy. However, on this cover from Alva Noto, The Cure’s original is inverted to stunning effect. Alva Noto does away with the beat and Smith’s singing, instead opting to float the track on a bed of cinematic electronic tones. As globules of bass map out ‘A Forest’s chord progression, Alva Noto drapes a hissing synthetic fog over the track in a manner that invokes, albeit in a rather more abstract way, the same Gothic atmospheres of The Cure’s original. Xylophone-aping keyboard tones then enter to sketch out Smith’s vocals and iconic lead-guitar lick.
Given the inherent tension of the original, one might expect Alva Noto to use the ten-plus minutes of ‘A Forest’ as space in which to swell the track to some great climax. However, he only gently pushes the piece here via the addition of some ever-so-slightly harsher synth pads and depth-charge bass hits. In opting for subtlety rather than grandeur, Alva Noto gives ‘A Forest’ a feeling not dissimilar to the collaborative records he has made with Ryuichi Sakamoto.
‘A Forest’ is an exquisite ambient cover of The Cure’s ‘A Forest’. Clocking in at more than ten minutes, we present you ‘A Forest’ on an exclusive single-sided 12”.
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Alva Noto
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- Alva Noto
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- HYbr:ID II
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- NOTON
- Catalogue Number
- N-061
- Release Date
- 13 October 2023
- LP (special)
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- Alva Noto
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- This Stolen Country of Mine (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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- NOTON
- Catalogue Number
- N-059
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- 21 July 2023
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- Alva Noto
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- Kinder der Sonne (From "Komplizen")
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- NOTON
- Catalogue Number
- N-058
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- 5 May 2023
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- Alva Noto
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- Subterraneans
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- NOTON
- Catalogue Number
- N-057
- Release Date
- 16 December 2022
- 12”
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- Alva Noto
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- Xerrox Vol. 4
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- NOTON
- Catalogue Number
- N-049
- Release Date
- 19 June 2020
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- Alva Noto
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- Xerrox, Vol. 2
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- NOTON
- Catalogue Number
- N-033
- Release Date
- 11 May 2020
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NOTON
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- Carsten Nicolai
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- Ray Collector
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- NOTON
- Catalogue Number
- N0631
- Release Date
- 8 December 2023
- 10″
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- Artist
- Ryoji Ikeda
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- ultratronics
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- NOTON
- Catalogue Number
- N+003
- Release Date
- 2 December 2022
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- Ryoji Ikeda
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- ultratronics
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- NOTON
- Catalogue Number
- N+003
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- 2 December 2022
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- Ryoji Ikeda
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- ultratronics 15
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- NOTON
- Catalogue Number
- N+003S2
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- 4 November 2022
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- Alva Noto, Ryuichi Sakamoto
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- Kizuna
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- NOTON
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- N-055-S2
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- 14 October 2022
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- Ryoji Ikeda
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- ultratronics 01
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- NOTON
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- N+003S1
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- 7 October 2022
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- Alva Noto, Ryuichi Sakamoto
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- City Radieuse
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- NOTON
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- N-053S1
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- 19 August 2022
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- Alva Noto, Ryuichi Sakamoto
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- Barco
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- NOTON
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- N-052S1
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- 25 July 2022
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Electronic and Electronica
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- pigbaby
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- i don't care if anyone listens to this shit once you do
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- PLZ Make It Ruins
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- PLZ050D
- Release Date
- 26 April 2024
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- mui zyu
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- the rules of what an earthling can be
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- Father/Daughter Records
- Catalogue Number
- FD127DIG4
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- 23 April 2024
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- Maria Chiara Argiro
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- Closer
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- Innovative Leisure
- Catalogue Number
- 810874027146
- Release Date
- 26 April 2024
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- Lanark Artefax
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- Metallur
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- AD 93
- Catalogue Number
- WHYT078
- Release Date
- 26 April 2024
- EP
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- Actress
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- Dolphin Spray / Static
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- Smalltown Supersound
- Catalogue Number
- STS428DIGI1
- Release Date
- 25 April 2024
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- Yosa Peit
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- Gut Buster
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- Fire Records
- Catalogue Number
- FIRE704
- Release Date
- 26 April 2024
- LP
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- Artist
- Sega Bodega
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- Dennis
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- ambient tweets
- Catalogue Number
- at001
- Release Date
- 26 April 2024
- LP
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- Artist
- Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling, Andreas Werliin
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- Ghosted II
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- Drag City
- Catalogue Number
- DC917
- Release Date
- 26 April 2024
- LP
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