A few days into the release of DIRK SERRIES’ INFINITE AND BEYOND and we’ve our first review. The album is currently available at ‘name your price’ over at Projekt’s Bandcamp.
PROGRESSIVE ROCK CENTRAL REVIEW :
Belgian composer and guitarist Dirk Serries (also known for work under the alias vidnaObmana) has released Infinite And Unbound, a digital-only album via Projekt.
Designed with electric guitar and a small set of effects, the release features five long-form, deeply mesmerizing ambient electronic pieces that move through deep ambient and drone. The tracks were created in real time, leaning into slow-evolving harmonies, hauntingly beautiful soundscapes, and a melancholic tone. Serries is often noted for balancing density and restraint. On Infinite And Unbound, that approach shows up in extended passages that hover between sound and silence, with layered washes designed for quiet, solitary listening.
OPUS REVIEW :
Expertly crafted drones that are just as ominous and foreboding as they are beautiful and entrancing.
Although he retired his vidnaObmana ambient project nearly two decades ago, Dirk Serries has continued releasing music, and no one could ever accuse him of resting on his laurels. He’s released over 30 titles in the last two years alone, ranging from solo works to collaborations with Rodrigo Amado, Benedict Taylor, Trösta, and his wife, Martina Verhoeven.
The title of Serries’ latest album, Infinite and Unbound, is quite apropos. Using nothing more than an electric guitar and some effects pedals, he creates vast soundscapes that drift, shimmer, and unfurl with seemingly no end in sight. As such, a song like “Ocean Became Light” can prove just as ominous and foreboding as it is beautiful and entrancing. Serries’ drone-work is often likened to Chihei Hatakeyama’s, though I find Serries more surreal and even alien in comparison to Hatakeyama’s naturalistic atmospheres, though no less sublime and ephemeral.
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