chmafu nocords

Do not expect, do not judge. Travel with your attention to find your conditionings and laugh of your ego.

Spirit elevating brains makes music that hijacks into memory, digital nostalgia, pins and needles for the cerebrum. Microscopic sounds come together like intricate metal sculptures, surgeons’ tools, watchmakers’ gadgets, all joining together in unlikely organic assemblages that leap and flap around the room.

SEB...'s songs are a dichotomy of instantaneousness “nowness” and daydreaming playbacks of past emotional memories.

The Evidence & Process EP is lo-fi micro phonic sounds and background noise that decorate melancholic glitch and mellow pieces of music.

Do Not Expect and Evidence & Process (EP) are the first part of SEB...'s 4 cd (2 full lengths & 2 eps) work of which the second part can be found here: Ideact.

Listen to samples from

Do Not Expect (cd 1)
Anti-nihilism

Evidence & Process (cd 2)
Evidence

I am watching over this guy for couple of years in the past.
He sent me couple of tracks via net during our regular communication just to hear his sound, despite I asked him for more tracks or a CD so I can get better idea of his work.
I really liked what he produced and what I have heard from those tracks. And he is cool indeed.
I was asking him for more tracks, so he was sending me his latest material; despite I didn?t get any CD with his music for intention to maybe release it on my label.
In the meantime I realized that my friend maru from Chmafu nocords will release his stuff.
I was glad that someone will release his music because it is pretty good and worth for that.
This release is collection of his material probably done by years and applied on two CDRs placed in nice DVD cover.
Both of them are produced by Sebastian Alvarez AKA SEB AKA spirit elevating brains (as he is also signed on this cover).
The sound on this album is sound that I expected to hear.
His recognizable sound of pseudo rhythmic glitchy arrangements speeded up and slowed down is fully present.
Unusual sounds appear in moments when you don?t expect.
Unexpected cuts and drops are also here just to make disturbance, change the atmosphere and make it more dynamic.
First CD is probably the main, full length album, named "Do Not Expect" and it is collection of fifteen tracks.
And second CD "Evidence And Process" is (as it stands) EP collection but contained of eight tracks which means it can be another full length.
According to the sound, this EP is similar to first CD and these tracks can be counted as some kind of follow-up or maybe even predecessor. They are just a bit rawer and harder but also full with inspiration. If this guy continues from where he began and with his initial idea he will definitely have future.
Review by Staalplaat/Vital

album title: Do Not Expect	artist: SEB...	Feb. 2004	EUR 14.-
			USD 18.-
			JPY 1.900.-
		format: 2 cd-rs	(shipping included)