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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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- 13 oktober 2023
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- This Stolen Country of Mine (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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- N-059
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- 21 juli 2023
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- Catalogue Number
- N-058
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- 5 mei 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 juni 2020
- LP
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- Alva Noto
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- NOTON
- Catalogue Number
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- 11 mei 2020
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- Carsten Nicolai
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- NOTON
- Catalogue Number
- N0631
- Release Date
- 8 december 2023
- 10″
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- Ryoji Ikeda
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- ultratronics
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- NOTON
- Catalogue Number
- N+003
- Release Date
- 2 december 2022
- CD
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- 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 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 oktober 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 oktober 2022
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- Alva Noto, Ryuichi Sakamoto
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- City Radieuse
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- NOTON
- Catalogue Number
- N-053S1
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- 19 augustus 2022
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Electronic and Electronica
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- Olof Dreijer
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- Rosa Rugosa EP
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- Hessle Audio
- Catalogue Number
- 5050580814912
- Release Date
- 17 oktober 2023
- EP
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- The Exaltics
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- They Arrive
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- Creme Eclipse
- Catalogue Number
- CremeClassics05
- Release Date
- 10 november 2023
- EP
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- The Black Dog
- ReleaseProduct
- Silenced (Remastered)
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- Dust Science
- Catalogue Number
- dustdl120
- Release Date
- 12 april 2024
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- Björk and Rosalía featuring Olof Dreijer
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- Oral (Olof Dreijer Remix)
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- One Little Independent Records
- Catalogue Number
- 1941TP7DL
- Release Date
- 10 april 2024
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- KMRU, Kevin Richard Martin
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- Differ
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- Phantom Limb
- Catalogue Number
- PHNTM046A
- Release Date
- 11 april 2024
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- John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter, & Daniel Davies
- ReleaseProduct
- He Walks By Night
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- Sacred Bones Records
- Catalogue Number
- SBR336DIG2
- Release Date
- 9 april 2024
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- Phelimuncasi & Metal Preyers
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- Izigqinamba
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- Nyege Nyege Tapes
- Catalogue Number
- NNT053DIG
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- 5 april 2024
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- Artist
- Omar Souleyman
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- Erbil
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- Mad Decent
- Catalogue Number
- MAD614
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- 29 maart 2024
- LP (special)
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