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MH-265 Qua - Q&A  Q&A, the latest release from Melbourne, Australia’s Qua (Cornel Wilczek), is a collection of twelve compositions brushed with strokes of guitar and electronics on a canvas of drums provided by James Cecil (Architecture in Helsinki) and Laurence Pike (Savath + Savalas, Pivot, Triosk). Qua has made the mastery of breathing life into every blip his stock in trade, and Q&A is no different. This music is very live - there are more drums, guitar and analog synths than computers - and explores tempos far north of those found in his previous work. In addition to the top-flight musicianship on display, Qua's deft knack for arrangement adds an uncanny vibrancy to each zero and one. With his feet on the dance-floor and his hand on vintage equipment, Qua has taken one step closer to perfecting his painstaking yet playful style. |
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| Think Stereolab's highly-textured instrumental/synth arrangements gone further out there, and you're getting close to what's happening here. Highly recommended. - 3D World / It might be one of the year’s most fun albums. - Cokemachine Glow / A fun, blippy style that can hit hard, scale it back, or get bodies moving. - Alarm Press |
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| The latest release from Qua (pronounced, "kwah") bounces into your grey matter like a wave of technicolor cartoon plushies. Q&A is a shimmering sonic lolly bag; it wouldn't seem out of place to hear 'Ritmo Giallo' soundtracking the latest Super Mario Brothers game. Like the best bits of laptop contemporaries Dan Deacon and Kid606, one-man-band Cornel Wilczek understands the limitless possibilities - and inherent cheesosity - of electronic music. Q&A is an instrumental album bursting at the seams with new ideas, rhythms, sounds, and melodies. Like fellow Aussies Mountains in the Sky, Qua are more prone to the warm mistakes of live analogue instruments than the gleaming perfections of synth - and the album is much more approachable for it. This is not an album that takes itself too seriously, and it's no experimental endurance test. It's an unbeatably fun adventure up into the next level. Boy-yoy-yoy-yoy-YOING! - Two Thousand |
