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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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- Artist
- Alva Noto
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- HYbr:ID II
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- NOTON
- Catalogue Number
- N-061
- Release Date
- October 13, 2023
- LP (special)
- CD
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- Artist
- Alva Noto
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- This Stolen Country of Mine (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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- NOTON
- Catalogue Number
- N-059
- Release Date
- July 21, 2023
- LP
- CD
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- Artist
- Alva Noto
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- Kinder der Sonne (From "Komplizen")
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- NOTON
- Catalogue Number
- N-058
- Release Date
- May 5, 2023
- LP
- CD
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- Artist
- Alva Noto
- ReleaseProduct
- Subterraneans
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- NOTON
- Catalogue Number
- N-057
- Release Date
- December 16, 2022
- 12”
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- Artist
- Alva Noto
- ReleaseProduct
- Xerrox Vol. 4
- Label
- NOTON
- Catalogue Number
- N-049
- Release Date
- June 19, 2020
- LP
- CD
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- Artist
- Alva Noto
- ReleaseProduct
- Xerrox, Vol. 2
- Label
- NOTON
- Catalogue Number
- N-033
- Release Date
- May 11, 2020
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NOTON
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- Artist
- Carsten Nicolai
- ReleaseProduct
- Ray Collector
- Label
- NOTON
- Catalogue Number
- N0631
- Release Date
- December 8, 2023
- 10″
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- Artist
- Ryoji Ikeda
- ReleaseProduct
- ultratronics
- Label
- NOTON
- Catalogue Number
- N+003
- Release Date
- December 2, 2022
- CD
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- Artist
- Ryoji Ikeda
- ReleaseProduct
- ultratronics
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- NOTON
- Catalogue Number
- N+003
- Release Date
- December 2, 2022
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- Artist
- Ryoji Ikeda
- ReleaseProduct
- ultratronics 15
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- NOTON
- Catalogue Number
- N+003S2
- Release Date
- November 4, 2022
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- Artist
- Alva Noto, Ryuichi Sakamoto
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- Kizuna
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- NOTON
- Catalogue Number
- N-055-S2
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- October 14, 2022
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- Artist
- Ryoji Ikeda
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- ultratronics 01
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- NOTON
- Catalogue Number
- N+003S1
- Release Date
- October 7, 2022
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- Artist
- Alva Noto, Ryuichi Sakamoto
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- City Radieuse
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- NOTON
- Catalogue Number
- N-053S1
- Release Date
- August 19, 2022
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- Alva Noto, Ryuichi Sakamoto
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- Barco
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- NOTON
- Catalogue Number
- N-052S1
- Release Date
- July 25, 2022
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Electronic and Electronica
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- Artist
- Oneohtrix Point Never
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- Again (Special Edition Blu-ray)
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- Warp Records
- Release Date
- April 5, 2024
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- Artist
- Dopplereffekt
- ReleaseProduct
- INFINITE TETRASPACE
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- Curtis Electronix
- Catalogue Number
- CRTSX011
- Release Date
- March 1, 2024
- EP
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- Artist
- DMX Krew
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- Spiral Dance
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- Hypercolour
- Catalogue Number
- HYPELP026
- Release Date
- April 5, 2024
- LP
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- Artist
- Orbital
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- Orbital
- Label
- London Music Stream Ltd.
- Catalogue Number
- 179501
- Release Date
- December 15, 2017
- LP (special)
- CD
- Vinyl Boxset
- CD Boxset
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- Artist
- Sevendeaths
- ReleaseProduct
- Concreté Misery Decayed Edition
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- LUCKYME®
- Catalogue Number
- LM020XD
- Release Date
- April 5, 2024
- Cassette
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- Artist
- Khotin
- ReleaseProduct
- Alterac Acid / Mornings II
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- Khotin Industries
- Catalogue Number
- KIND 007
- Release Date
- April 19, 2024
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- Artist
- Olof Dreijer
- ReleaseProduct
- Rosa Rugosa EP
- Label
- Hessle Audio
- Catalogue Number
- 5050580814912
- Release Date
- October 17, 2023
- EP
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- Artist
- The Exaltics
- ReleaseProduct
- They Arrive
- Label
- Creme Eclipse
- Catalogue Number
- CremeClassics05
- Release Date
- November 10, 2023
- EP