"The tracks created under the Anzio Green moniker were started while Mark was in New Zealand often travelling between Nelson and Christchurch passing through the very Mediterranean wine growing region of Marlborough. The music evokes the beauty and calmness of this landscape. Mark then decided that the compositions needed something extra and Wil was able to tune in perfectly to the compositions and weave pure and digitally manipulated guitar textures into the mix."
Cyclic Frost Review
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"Anzio Green dabbles in strange frequencies and imaginative pairings of acoustic instrumentation with electronics over long tracks that ebb and flow through long surges and tidal recessions, in a structured yet oblique way.
Mark Streatfield and Wil Bolton – who also run Rednetic and Boltfish recordings, respectively – splash these imaginary spaces of alien energies and electronic serpentine crackle with streaks of guitar, piano, and organ, investing them with real depths, allusions, echoes, hidden pathways and magick. For the most part, though not always, they eschew obvious rhythms and beats, creating instead an organic sense of timelessness: moments of microrhythm pulse and dissolve, or swell into grand sweeps of melody.
The title track begins with a close approximation to the sound of surf washing up against the shore, before a wave of drones comes in, bringing with them an array of smashed electronic slivers, shards of choral sounds and noise. Flavors of an almost Arabic sort are introduced alongside melodic motifs, lending a grandeur of scope to the portentous tidal bend of the backing instrumentation.
They remain expansive, immersive pieces, yet they also encourage one to remain at a distance, and in so doing, see how detail, dynamism, and sonic tension play their parts."
Max Schaefer
Ear Rational Reviews
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"Anzio Green, a project which sees Mark Streatfield (aka Zainetica) and Wil Bolton (aka Cheju) conspire to sell a dummy to those anticipating a beat-slathered set of IDM pop-tronica. Previous form on their own imprints (Rednetic and Boltfish respectively) proves deceptive, as their first collab, Autumn Honey, turns out a quite different tidbit; while not wholly abstaining from rhythmicity, it largely targets reflective atmospherics and nature-inspired soundscapes, the latter partly prompted by track titles referencing skies, mountains and rivers. Streatfield and Bolton use conventional sources – predominantly electronics, keyboards, and guitars - the resulting five pieces hosting gentle cross-currents of guitar and electric pianoid melodic embellishments. Early Arabesque overtones yield to less exotic but still evocative pads layered with melodies traced by guitar lines. Overall AG seek to enshroud themselves in unwanted frequencies, spooling out creative couplings of acoustic-electronic over extended tracks. These tend to configure themselves into swell-relent surge-recede patterns in tonal swathes, here arcing in crystalline timelines, there stretching serpentine to imaginary horizons."
Customer Reviews
On 2009-12-20 00:00:00, 'Don Poe, EAR/Rational Staff Reviewer' gave the following review:
"Sad. Lonely. Alone. These are feelings I get from this album. I can see why he used the word Autumn in the title, that is the season I associate with these types of feelings. This has effected piano, sound effects and other devices to create a set of moody electronic songs. The songs pace is relatively slow, uses piano recorded backwards and forwards, and other stringed instruments. It is snowing outside as I write this and this music fits the wet leaves and grey sky very well!"