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█▀║ VA - A Storm of Drones ║▀█
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█▀║ Artist: VA ║▀█
█▀║ Album: A Storm of Drones ║▀█
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█▀║ Ripper........: saintVitus ║▀█
█▀║ Supplier......: PsyCZ Team ║▀█
█▀║ Genre.........: Ambient ║▀█
█▀║ Style.........: 'Ambient Drone' ║▀█
█▀║ Ripp.With.....: EAC ║▀█
█▀║ Encode.With...: Lame 3.96 ║▀█
█▀║ Quality.......: VBRkbps / 44.1kHz / Joint-Stereo ║▀█
█▀║ Company(Label): Sombient / Asphodel ║▀█
█▀║ CatalogNr.....: 0966 ║▀█
█▀║ Url...........: http://www.asphodel.com ║▀█
█▀║ ReleaseDate...: 28.09.2004 ║▀█
█▀║ StoreDate.....: 00.00.1996 ║▀█
█▀║ Type..........: Compilation ║▀█
█▀║ Source........: CDDA ║▀█
█▀║ Tracks........: 03 ║▀█
█▀║ Playtime......: CD1: 73:37 CD2: 73:36 CD3: 73:53 ║▀█
█▀║ Size..........: 319,4 MB ║▀█
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█▀║ For Nukers: This was previously released as 2003-08-13 303 mb 35 - ║▀█
█▀║ VA-A_Storm_of_Drones-3CD-1995-DPS, but each CD of this VA has few ║▀█
█▀║ tracks continually mixed, that's why PsyCZ release is MP3+CUE. ║▀█
█▀║ ║▀█
█▀║ For DPS Friends: Sorry guys... PROPER in this case is just tag for ║▀█
█▀║ nukers, not the reason for us to release when DPS was first. PsyCZ ║▀█
█▀║ usually doesn't release mp3+cue propers for mixed and continual ║▀█
█▀║ albums, in such case we rather do an internal release. But in this ║▀█
█▀║ case we are releasing complete The Drone Trilogy (The Throne of ║▀█
█▀║ Drones, Swarm of Drones, A Storm Of Drones). It's 100% better when a ║▀█
█▀║ fan of this music can download the whole series in unified layout and ║▀█
█▀║ VBR quality in one PRE... So it's not like PROPER war between PsyCZ ║▀█
█▀║ and DPS and we hope you will understand... :O)) ║▀█
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█▀║ -------- ║▀█
█▀║ ║▀█
█▀║ The original concept for the Asphodel subsidiary Sombient was to ║▀█
█▀║ create a darker alternative to the relaxed "chill-out" music that ║▀█
█▀║ emerged from the early-'90s rave scene. The third and last ║▀█
█▀║ installment, A Storm of Drones, is a three-disc set of dense, ║▀█
█▀║ free-form space music more than befitting the title. Space pioneers ║▀█
█▀║ Steve Roach, Michael Stearns, Robert Rich, Jeff Greinke and Vidna ║▀█
█▀║ Obmana appear beside more recent experimentalists like DJ Spooky and ║▀█
█▀║ Elliot Sharp. ║▀█
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█▀║ Dating from 1995, "A Storm of Drones" is the final episode of the ║▀█
█▀║ Drones Trilogy, compiled by Naut Humon for the Sombient division of ║▀█
█▀║ Asphodel Records. In fact, this particular release is itself a ║▀█
█▀║ trilogy, providing within a single (Opak) box three well-packed (if ║▀█
█▀║ not terribly well-packaged) CDs, each offering a slightly different ║▀█
█▀║ take on music that is without any discernible tune, rhythm or beat and ║▀█
█▀║ totalling in all some 220 minutes of intense musical listening - ║▀█
█▀║ which, I hope, explains the title. ║▀█
█▀║ ║▀█
█▀║ The three-CD format of "A Storm of Drones" permits a somewhat broader ║▀█
█▀║ - and deeper - exploration of 'music of the drone' than that ║▀█
█▀║ undertaken in either of this volume's precursors. This is noticeable ║▀█
█▀║ from the outset, with the first CD in the set - bearing the subtitle ║▀█
█▀║ of "Audio" - consisting of some eleven extracts of works previously ║▀█
█▀║ released in the electroacoustic and acousmatic catalogue of the ║▀█
█▀║ Canadian recording company DIFFUSION i MΘDIA (better known nowadays as ║▀█
█▀║ electrocd.com, a company that has subsequently released the full ║▀█
█▀║ versions of some of the works featured on the second CD in this set, ║▀█
█▀║ by the way.) ║▀█
█▀║ ║▀█
█▀║ The length of the excerpts presented here varies greatly: from a ║▀█
█▀║ couple of two-minute movements lifted from Francis Dhomont's ║▀█
█▀║ "...mourir un peu" to major (i.e. 13+ minutes) chunks of works such as ║▀█
█▀║ Robert Normandeau's "Tangram" and StΘphane Roy's "Crystal Music". The ║▀█
█▀║ extract from the latter, in fact, consists of almost the entire 14 ║▀█
█▀║ minutes of the original, although inexplicably missing the opening ║▀█
█▀║ five seconds-worth and with the final two minutes presented in a ║▀█
█▀║ different form. ("Tangram" is also presented in a different mix from ║▀█
█▀║ that appearing on Normandeau's own discs - the version that appears ║▀█
█▀║ here is more compact in places and would seem to be part of an earlier ║▀█
█▀║ edition of the work.) ║▀█
█▀║ ║▀█
█▀║ All of the materials included on this disc, though, have been chosen ║▀█
█▀║ for their slowly unfolding form, as well as for their reliance on ║▀█
█▀║ textural development as opposed to gestural articulation. They thus ║▀█
█▀║ provide a concentration of essentially drone-based material which all ║▀█
█▀║ sits well together while, of course, also fitting into the theme of ║▀█
█▀║ the series. So consistent is this material, though, that it is hard to ║▀█
█▀║ believe that it was not written to fit together this way, with each ║▀█
█▀║ composer's extract segueing seamlessly into the next - and all without ║▀█
█▀║ a single dull moment, too. ║▀█
█▀║ ║▀█
█▀║ And that's just the first disc of this set! The second, subtitled ║▀█
█▀║ "Environmental", consists of similarly slow moving, drone-based ║▀█
█▀║ sound-works, this time nearly all derived from environmental ║▀█
█▀║ recordings of one kind or another. These range from the luscious ║▀█
█▀║ thunderstorm materials of Michael Stearns' "Reky into Dark Territory", ║▀█
█▀║ to the use of wide reverberant spaces as the setting for the recording ║▀█
█▀║ of improvised trombone playing, as featured in Stuart Dempster's Deep ║▀█
█▀║ Listening work, "Morning Light" (taken from the New Albion Records ║▀█
█▀║ release, "Underground Overlays from the Cistern Chapel") and taking ║▀█
█▀║ in, along the way, Alan Lamb's use of what must count as the world's ║▀█
█▀║ largest aeolian harp in "Primal Image" (from his "Archival Recordings" ║▀█
█▀║ album, featuring unprocessed contact microphone recordings of the ║▀█
█▀║ natural vibrations in telephone cables stretching across the ║▀█
█▀║ Australian outback). Much (though not all) of the material on this ║▀█
█▀║ disc is more tonally centred - or at least note or pitch-based - than ║▀█
█▀║ is the general case on Disc 1, but the material remains every bit as ║▀█
█▀║ atmospheric and sonically fascinating. ║▀█
█▀║ ║▀█
█▀║ The trend towards a greater pitch-centring of the content continues on ║▀█
█▀║ the third disc in the set, "Immersion". Here, in a return to music ║▀█
█▀║ from the artists who provided the mainstay of material on the ║▀█
█▀║ preceding volumes in this series - such as Steve Roach, Robert Rich, ║▀█
█▀║ Maryanne Amacher, Gregory Lenczycki - the listener is truly immersed ║▀█
█▀║ in a veritable 'storm of drones' of almost stunning intensity. As ║▀█
█▀║ track blends into track, this disc proves itself an impressive ║▀█
█▀║ culmination to this massive celebration of... well, call it what you ║▀█
█▀║ will: electroacoustic; acousmatic; industrial techno or dark ambient ║▀█
█▀║ music of the drone. Whatever. For if there is one thing that this ║▀█
█▀║ release does teach, it is that labels for music are unimportant; what ║▀█
█▀║ matters are the feelings behind it. And all of the works here ║▀█
█▀║ demonstrate an intensity of feeling that is really quite awe ║▀█
█▀║ inspiring. ║▀█
█▀║ ║▀█
█▀║ Regularly readers of my reviews will know that I normally have little ║▀█
█▀║ time or patience for compilation albums, especially those featuring ║▀█
█▀║ bleeding chunks torn from other releases. For once, though, I am more ║▀█
█▀║ than happy to set aside my prejudices and recommend this collection ║▀█
█▀║ wholeheartedly. These three CDs do a great job of bringing such ║▀█
█▀║ beautiful music together in a way that not only makes perfect musical ║▀█
█▀║ sense, but which also does much to provide a setting that may itself ║▀█
█▀║ foster further exploration by several disparate audiences into alien ║▀█
█▀║ musical territories - a truly worthy cause indeed. ║▀█
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█▀║ Although currently out of print at Asphodel, I do urge would-be buyers ║▀█
█▀║ to spare no effort hunting for copies of this release while it remains ║▀█
█▀║ reasonably easy to find. It is a great set of discs - one that should ║▀█
█▀║ not be missed. ║▀█
█▀║ Reviewer: Steve Benner (Lancaster, UK) ║▀█
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█▀║ CD1 - Audio ║▀█
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█▀║ 01. Robert Normandeau - Tangram (Excerpt) ║▀█
█▀║ 02. Denis Smalley - Valley Flow (Excerpt) ║▀█
█▀║ 03. Francis Dhomont - Marine ║▀█
█▀║ 04. Patrick Ascione - Lune noire (Excerpt) ║▀█
█▀║ 05. Annette Vande Gorne - Terre (Excerpt) ║▀█
█▀║ 06. Francis Dhomont - Il ritorno (Section 1) ║▀█
█▀║ 07. Stephane Roy - Crystal Music (Excerpt) ║▀█
█▀║ 08. Gilles Gobeil - La ou vont les nuages...(Excerpt) ║▀█
█▀║ 09. Mario Rodrigue - Cristaux liquides (Excerpt) ║▀█
█▀║ 10. Jonty Harrison - Hot Air (Excerpt) ║▀█
█▀║ 11. Paul Dolden - Veils (Excerpt) ║▀█
█▀║ 73:37 ║▀█
█▀║ CD2 - Environmental ║▀█
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█▀║ 01. Michael Stearns - Reky Into Dark Territory ║▀█
█▀║ 02. Steve Roach - Merciful Eyes ║▀█
█▀║ 03. Alan Lamb - Primal Image (Excerpt) ║▀█
█▀║ 04. Darren Copeland - Maritime Vision ║▀█
█▀║ 05. Stuart Dempster - Morning Light ║▀█
█▀║ 06. Fred Szymanski - It's Hard to Know ║▀█
█▀║ 07. Ellen Fullman - Change of Direction, a condese excerpt ║▀█
█▀║ 08. Darren Copeland - Reaching for Tomorrow (Extract) ║▀█
█▀║ 09. Maggi Payne - Moire ║▀█
█▀║ 10. Aloof Proof - The Last Leaf (Excerpt) ║▀█
█▀║ 11. DJ Spooky - In the Valley of Shadows... (DJ Spooky takes a walk ║▀█
█▀║ through New York City) ║▀█
█▀║ 12. Naut Humon - Twinge of Lunge ║▀█
█▀║ 73:36 ║▀█
█▀║ CD3 - Immersion ║▀█
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█▀║ 01. Maryanne Amacher - KARYON Sound Character ║▀█
█▀║ 02. David Kwan - +/- 1V ║▀█
█▀║ 03. Elliot Sharp - Klystron ║▀█
█▀║ 04. ISO Orchestra - Idle Sunder ║▀█
█▀║ 05. Antimatter - flyback transformer ║▀█
█▀║ 06. Gregory Lenczycki - Temporal Filter Coefficient ║▀█
█▀║ 07. Mortal Engines - Passage IV ║▀█
█▀║ 08. Robert Rich - Ephemera ║▀█
█▀║ 09. Jeff Gerinke - Out Form Under (Excerpt) ║▀█
█▀║ 10. Voice of Eye - Sirens at Propolis ║▀█
█▀║ 11. Vidna Obmana & Asmus Tietchens - VOT 3/2 (a remix) ║▀█
█▀║ 12. Maryanne Amacher - PLAYTHING Sound Character ║▀█
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█▀║ As time goes by, the world matures. PsyCZ has matured and the scene has ║▀█
█▀║ matured. PsyCZ has been releasing MP3 in VBR (using --r3mix with LAME ║▀█
█▀║ 3.89, making it archival quality enough even from today's view) since ║▀█
█▀║ end of 2001, and was met with skepticism. As time went by, more and more ║▀█
█▀║ groups realised that VBR is superiur to CBR 192. Finally, now in 2004, ║▀█
█▀║ VBR is allowed by the scene. ║▀█
█▀║ PsyCZ in 2004 will also continue to bring you the finest psychedelic ║▀█
█▀║ trance music from around the world, as we have done since 2001. ║▀█
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