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r e l e a s e . i n f o
Artist.....: Asmus Tietchens & Vidna Obmana
Title......: Untitled (Syrenia 2)
Rip Date...: Mar-17-2007 Cat.No.....: Syrenia 2
Style......: Ambient Label......: Syrenia
Quality....: VBRkbps Type.......: Album
Size.......: 68,7 MB Source.....: CDDA
r e l e a s e . n o t e s
"Vidna Obmana laid down the original material, Asmus Tietchens
re-processed it yielding 5 tracks ranging from 8:28 to 11:45.
(Witness their more recent role-reversal in their newest collab,
Motives for Recycling.)
The slurred organ bursts of vot 2 sound rather like the dying
gasps of a circus calliope. A somber grey gem of sonic surrealism,
vot 1 features a low, rhythmic looping overlain with twisted
keyboard strands. The simmering, surging power source of vot 3
will be familiar to those who own the Sombient Storm of Drones
comp. Solemn bells tolling through a swirling electronic fogbank
add a gothic touch to vanishing habitat. Decidedly esoteric
listening and definitely recommended as such."
www.spiderbytes.com/ambientrance
"Recorded in 1991-92 and released on the Musica Maxima Magnetica
sublabel Syrenia, is a collaboration that may at first seem less
likely. Although they both share an innate passion for
experimentation, Vidna Obmana's ambient stylings seem a far cry
from the abstract sound manipulations and loop effects of Asmus
Tietchens. And yet they use these differences to their advantage,
creating a complex soundworld full of details and unique to both
of their bodies of work. Tietchens opens up the disc with
"hydrophonie 13a", and sets the tone for the entire disc. There is
no gentle introduction here; the piece begins immediately with its
barrage of dense layerings, heavy ambient loops and a bizarre and
shifting undercurrent of gurglings and little sounds. What follows
are three pieces entitled "vot" (1, 2 and 3), in which Tietchens
gets the final mix on basic sound material recorded by Obmana.
These pieces, very much like the first with their dense sounds and
heavy, tolling loops, create opaque soundscapes which seem to be
fully submerged as in a deep sea. There's a great wealth of sound
elements on this album. Listening, my attention will often isolate
one stream and then another, and returning to this music kindles a
new appreciation for its subtlety and richness. Obmana gets the
final mix on only one track here, the final piece "Vanishing
Habitat". It is immediately apparent that this is Obmana's work
from the way the piece begins; its gradual rise from silence
contrasts with the more abrupt openings of the earlier pieces.
With its main sound source of clanging bells and resonance ("in
that muffled monotone"), the piece brings to mind a stanza from
Poe's "The Bells", which, as a description of this piece (and in
fact the entire album), does it more justice than I ever could:
Hear the tolling of the bells -
Iron bells!
What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!
In the silence of the night,
How we shiver with affright
At the melancholy menace of their tone!
For every sound that floats
From the rust within their throats
Is a groan.
Highly recommended. [Richard di Santo]"
www.incursion.org
http://www.tietchens.de
http://www.vidnaobmana.be
p l a y l i s t
01 Hydrophonie 13a 10:40
02 Vot 2 11:29
03 Vot 1 11:14
04 Vot 3 11:46
05 Vanishing Habitat 08:28
53:37 min
g r e e t i n g s
agw - amok - bass - bcc - bex - boss - cmg - cmc - cms - d2h
def - dh - disc0 - drum - emp - ftd - fwyh - gem - i8 - ipc
jce - jfk - jrp - just - khz - kinky - kw - lame - maem - mbs
mgc - psycz - r2r - rac - radial - rapid - rks - rtb - sb
sever - sfe - soup - sour - sq - tr - trt - ube - uc - upe
uki - xtc - yard - zi
respect to music lovers worldwide
never forget : go to the show. buy the t-shirt. order the vinyl