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Kuvatud on postitused sildiga Vacu Sessions. Kuva kõik postitused
Kuvatud on postitused sildiga Vacu Sessions. Kuva kõik postitused

9/21/2018

Narayana – Vacu Sessions 34 (2013)




  • Avant-garde 
  • Black noise 
  • Illbient 
  • Dark ambient 
  • Experimentalism 
  • Power electronics 
  • Leftfield 
  • Neoclassical 
  • Dystopbient

Comment: heavy or light, new and old, predictable or totally unknown: the important here is the dynamic of the music. A continuous exploration of sound. This is a description of the imprint Vacu Sessions of which description is literally relevant to Narayana's whole as well. I could add one more sentence to it – this is blackened and even more blackened, occult and spiritual. Similarly to most of the releases on Vacu Sessions Narayana's one consists formally of one composition of different merged sonic facets. The listener can hear acute noisy outbursts and malicious fadeouts, horrendous reverberations and stealthy serpentine monsters to leap to your backyard. And heartbreakingly wailing women. Tectonic basses with low frequencies are varied with high-pitched sounds as if being vamped up by the debris from an abandoned junkyard. As if a soundtrack for a story of H.P. Lovecraft, a tribute to Ctulhu. I mentioned the word soundtrack and I did suggest it with proper intention because the main course is somehow cinematic, spookily cinematic. Masterfully horrible, skillfully epic.

11/01/2014

Huyk – Vacu Sessions 32 (2013)




/Experimental electronica, Glitchtronica, Noise, Avant-garde/

Comment: Huyk`s 16-minute long session is fairly intense due to closely adjacent or superimposed elements consisting mostly of insistent digital progressions, glitch-y bits and noisy semi-panoramic backgrounds. At times these noise elements are slightly more buried and coloured in brown, however, resulting in pulsating impulses and surrounded by glitch-drenched ruffles. The session is composed of 4 compartments (all of them are titled as Man Of Brass). Is it either a black quadrangle or just a box?       

4/24/2014

Terratrax - Vacu Sessions 33 (2013)



  • Ambient noise
  • Micronoise
  • Glitchtronica
  • Improvised music
  • Experimental electronica
  • Avant-electronica
  • Experimentalism
  • Jazz
  • Ambient techno
  • Psychedelic
  • Acid
  • Sampledelic
Outstanding tracks:
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5/31/2012

Micromelancoliè - Vacu Sessions 26 (2012)


Vacu Sessions

9.3

/Mixtape, Experimental electronica, Noise, Conceptual, Sound collage, Cut and paste, Avant-electronica, Organic electronica, Musique concrète/  

Comment: you can call this album "compilation" or "mixtape" which consists of different tracks by various artists. Indeed, it chimes very good because of being interlaced seamlessly with each other. Secondly, there are represented lots of genres which used to variegate this lengthy "track" (36 minutes), more profoundly, being composed of lush electronica, more rhythm-relied propulsions, and noiseful appearences at the ending part of the whole.    

11/12/2011

Sara Santos - Vacu Sessions 20 ( 2011)



/Guitar ambient, Sound art, Experimental rock, Experimentalism, Avant-garde, Noise/

Comment
: massive, abrasive guitar seaways and slapping drums are up here to dominate throughout the 37-minute session. Crashing, ingurgitating and crushing noise enlightened with some atmospherical layers coming out from it/revolving around it. In fact, having no certain idea how to entitle it exactly - is it sound art or a sort of cutting edge noise rock a la the Lightning Bolt? Never mind, first of all, Sara Santos` work reminds of Tore Elgarøy`s whilom opus The Sound Of The Sun (2001, Rune Grammofon) and Glenn Branca`s guitar noise-drenched symphonies. And it makes you smile tonight.

8/02/2011

Cornucopia - Vacu Sessions 16 (2011)



/Experimental electronica, Abstract, Avant-electronica, Drone, Noise, Experimentalism/


Comment: Portugal-based Vacu Sessions functions to issue innovative mixes and compositions by different artists all around the world. This composition (symphony?) consists of 7 tracks within 59 minutes, employing opposing visions of sound (fluttering, noiseful snippets and thundering bass sequences are set out against dream-filled droning and subtly haunting electronica; clear-cut sounds versus infiltrated progressions). It might be even more important while lots of powerful energy used to seep from the potent form.

6/26/2011

Non Descript - Vacu Sessions 11 (2010)



/Conceptual, Noise, Abstract electronica, Experimentalism, Avant-garde, Electro-acoustic, Acousmatics, Pyscho-acoustic,

Comment
: As so ordinary to the issues of Vacu Sessions, a Portugal-based sound art/experimental electronic music umbrella, this publication consists only of one long-running track which is channelized into a dramaturgical/spectacular build-up. The one starts out with the elemental washes of hiss-relied progressions and the swaying of minimal rhythms from one channel to another which later will be developed into a kind of electro-acoustic rumble embellished with the deep progressions of electronics and threatening washes of minimally running and finally unleashed noise. Impressive.

3/30/2011

Rùnar Magnusson - Vacu Sessions 13 (2011)



/Abstract, Avant-electronica, Glitch-tronica, Experimental electronica, Conceptual,Post-Psychedelic electronica, Experimentalism/

Comment: This is a track of 26 minutes divided into 6 parts by the Icelandic electronic music legend Rùnar Magnusson. Initially those tracks were arranged for the theater piece The Saviour (2007). This set veers from "fault-induced", permanently repeated electronic patterns to subtly droning organ sessions which particularly makes up a near-psychedelic sense. Besides those slightly pop-alike approaches, however, there are rigidly experimentalism-centered pieces and abstract glitch crackles as well.

12/15/2010

Steven Porter Vacu Sessions 3 (Vacu Sessions)


The first and last time when I reviewed an artist (Sturqen) under the label/blog/community Vacu Sessions, I mentioned then the label is "obviously from Finland". Actually it is the Portugal-based label, having been offering solid help for soundscapes classified between music and non-music (or a peripheric side of music) to be surfaced again and again.

Steven Porter is an artist`s pseudonym behind which are hidden Yuji Kondo, and Katsunori Sawa from Kyoto, Japan. Lots of things will be happened in those 27 minutes of one track recorded in Honen-in Temple. The issue is fulfilled with a lot of turns, breaks and variable gears shifting forward and back and having its irritating outputs through effervescent facets, however, thereby it is not wrong to be considered the whole a kind of radiophonic art, for instance. More detailly, besides the chopped-and-cut-up singing at the beginning the entries of opera singers and baroque-esque wraiths are intentionally represented here, bringing forth an emotion-loaded side. On the other side, the basic core is carried along on musique concrete-infused electro-acoustic overthrows which side-effects will be developing and channelized into broadening yet intense buzzscapes and desolate industrial ambiences. In a word, it is an interesting, open-minded construction through the forging of diverse genres and evoking of wide-scale perceptions.

Listen to it here

9.2

12/02/2010

Sturqen Radio Inoculation (Vacu Sessions)


Vacu Sessions is a sound art/sound design environment/community/label/blog, offering gently live sessions, mix sets, and uncommon DJ-gigs. Obviously it is located in Finland somewhere. Their slogan is as clear as the following one: heavy or light, new and old, predictable or totally unknown: the important here is the dynamic of the music. A continuous exploration of sound.

Here is a track from Sturqen, called Radio Inoculation, specially recorded for RadiaLx 2010, an International Radio Art Festival. With the longitude of 27.58 it seems to be an endless journey via sound exploration and observant knob-twiddling manipulation. Actually Radio Inoculation do tallow our visions and preconceptions about sound art as a kind of. Undoubtedly Sturqen`s conception is rigid, minimal and doggedly insensitive. Imperative even malicious signals, digital crackling of brown noise, throbbing monotonous drone lines and spacious layers are the agents up here presenting their very role to enact an intriguing conception between music and sound design, between a kind of music and non-. In fact, it does mean that there are even some little edges for warm feelings as well. What else can I add to for you - take your time and check it out for the more releases on Vacu Sessions. It is sometimes quite purposeful to listen to it for purifying of your mind.

Listen to it here

9.0