SAM ROSENTHAL & VIDNA OBMANA
TERRACE OF MEMORIES (CD / LP /MD, Projekt Records)
YES, thanks to the overwhelming crowdfunding PROJEKT RECORDS has set up, here’s the long overdue reissue of a 1992 classic between SAM ROSENTHAL (Black Tape For A Blue Girl) and VIDNA OBMANA.
Fully remastered, new design and available on various formats.
European customers, shop here.
US customers, shop here.
Some photo examples CD or Minidisc
Some photo examples coloured vinyl
The reissue of VIDNA OBMANA’s DANTE TRILOGY (Tremor, Spore, Legacy), 3 CD remastered edition on Zoharum – new experimental art reached the number 2 spot on the best of 2023 at MUSIQUE MACHINE !
1: Viera Janárčeková – Dotyk [Kairos Music]
2: Vidna Obmana – Dante Trilogy [Zoharum]
3: Yotzeret Sheydim – Sefer Yetzirah (The Book of Creation) [Deathbed Tapes]
4: Pauline Oliveros – Sound Pieces [Another Timbre]
5: Worship – Focus [Self release]
6: See Through Buildings – I Take Your Entrance Back [HNW Netlabel]
7: Khanate – To Be Cruel [Sacred Bones Records]
8: Various Artists – Sputnik!: The Launch Of The Space Race [Bear Family Records]
9: Big Hole – The Hole: A Reading Soundtrack [Ominous Recordings]
10: Stackridge – Friendliness [Esoteric Records/ Cherry Red]
11: Subhumans – The Day the Country Died [Pirates Press Records]
12: Eden Lonsdale – Clear and Hazy Moons [Another Timbre]
13: Swans – The Beggar [Young God]
14: Rien – The Transparent Blue Tape [Ominous Recordings]
15: Sebastian Tomb – Summer Of Our Discontent[Gates Of Hypnos]
16: The Necks – Travel [Northern Spy]
17 : Quentin Rollet & Romain Perrot – Le vieux fusible / The Singles [reQords]18: Inanition – Trampling Iris [HNW Netlabel]
19: RENALDO M. They Blessed The Body Breadcrumbed[Klanggalerie]
20: Elis Hallik – Born In Waves [Kairos Music]
21: Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere – θ6[Discus Music]
22: Elsa Bergman – Playon Crayon [Bergman Inspelningar]
23: Gang Green – We’ll Give It To You(CD Boxset) [Dissonance Productions/ Cherry Red
24: Rosie Kelvin – Theres Nothing Out There [Its Wall Noise]
25: Fred Frith & Núria Andorrà – Dancing Like Dust [Klanggalerie]
26: Sutcliffe No More – Normal [Klanggalerie]
27: Coffin Vomit – Glovejob [Mima Kass]
28: Officer! – Some Songs/Bandagen [Klanggalerie]
29 :Arktau Eos – Dormiveglia [Aural Hypnox]
30: Lee “Scratch” Perry – Battle of Armagideon (Millionaire Liquidator) [Doctor Bird/ Cherry Red]
DIRK SERRIES’ newest ambient release FLUCTUATION OF BEING (cd, Midira Records) just got reviewed.
” have been a fan of Dirk Serries’ early work as Vidna Obmana for nearly a quarter century. It largely relies on synth-driven ambiance in a similar vein as that of Steve Roach, Alio Die, Robert Rich, and so on. Landscape in Obscurity was a masterpiece. Here, he returns to that general style but with guitar and effects rather than synths. These five long tracks feature Serries generating slow-moving drone soundscapes. The textures are slightly rough with just enough distortion to be unsettling. With these building blocks, he moves deliberately from chord to chord, each sweeping into phase as a variation of a previous theme or an exploration of a new motif. The result is surprisingly melodic despite the album’s lack of traditional notions of melody, harmony, or rhythm. When listened to as a whole, Fluctuation of Being has the ability to slip in and out of any incidental background noises in the listening environment. But I also find that it grabs my attention more frequently than most ambient music. But this dual nature of the recording is not surprising, given Serries’ history of mixing passages that evoke relaxation but with dark overtones. Regardless, this effort is another strong one in Serries’ very long discography. ” AMN
“Dirk Serries prosegue imperterrito nella sua ricerca musicale che lo ha portato, nel corso di una carriera leggendaria, a sperimentare le sonorità più disparate. A mio avviso è comunque con il suo progetto Vidna Obmana che ha lasciato il segno riuscendo a ridefinire i confini della musica ambient. Tuttavia Dirk Serries è sempre stato un artista che ha giustamente guardato avanti e che ha sempre cercato di reinventare il suo linguaggio. In realtà la sua sensibilità alla materia sonora è sempre rimasta sempre la stessa così come la sua capacità di riuscire a creare delle emozioni profonde nell’ascoltatore. È solo cambiata la forma ma non la sostanza: mentre prima usava i synth ora usa le chitarre ma il musicista belga è rimasto integro e se anche, data anche la notevole produzione, ogni tanto gli capita di ripercorrere strade già battute, lo fa sempre con grande classe e con un fine artigianato. È il caso anche di questo nuovo The Fluctuation of Being, un album caratterizzato da atmosfere malinconiche che mi ha ricordato il Vidna Obmana più oscuro, quello per intenderci di The Contemporary Nocturne e Surreal Sanctuary ma anche della collaborazione con Asmus Tietchens. Fin dalla prima traccia “Nothingness” siamo proiettati in un paesaggio nebbioso dai contorni indefiniti, un paesaggio che sembra avvolgere delle città in un crepuscolo eterno. La sensazione è quella di fluttuare in una dimensione onirica ma, allo stesso tempo, estremamente reale. Serries riesce a non perdere mai il contatto con la realtà: semmai ce ne offre una visione leggermente distorta ma non per questo meno vera. Anzi la sua musica riesce a portarne alla luce, nella sua apparente immobilità, la sua essenza nascosta.” Ver Sacrum
“Fluctuation Of Being is Dirk Serries’ first foray into full-on ambience since 2018’s Epitaph. It’s a guitar & effects-based album highlighting both his skill and atmospheric scope within the ambient form. Over the five featured tracks, he moves from slowly growing drone matter, through to drifting ambience, onto felt & forlorn moodscapes.
The CD album appears on Germany’s Midira Records. It comes presented in a four-panel mini gatefold- which on its outside features what looks like a close-up colour photo of vegetation & roots locked within either frost or ice.
We open with just over twelve and a half minutes of“Nothingness” here Serries slowly but surely builds a vast & baying wall of drone matter, which sits somewhere between the sweepingly grand & glowingly felt. By track three “Confinement” and its near eight-minute unfold- we find ourselves in a floating in gliding and ebbing guitar tone- which both circles, sweeps, and lightly harmonically jangles its way along.
The longest track here is the fourth “Despairing Object” which comes in at dead on the sixteen-minute mark. It moves from felt, at points forlorn sweeps. Onto to ebbing & expanding drone fields, through to billowing & drifting pitch glides- which are half lost & half hopeful.
Serries has been active since the 1980s in the wider European experimental genre, with his sonic interest moving harsh industrial music, ambience, and on to improv/ abstract jazz in recent years. So, it’s nice to see him once again returning to the ambient form with Fluctuation Of Being, and it most certainly shows he hasn’t lost his knack for the form- as it’s both a skilled & engaging album, that rewards replays. ” Musique Machine
EARTHWORKS follows ‘GARGOYLES’ and ‘LIGHT INDUSTRY’, Colin Webster and Dirk Serries recorded their third studio album at the Sunny Side Inc. Studio in May 2022. With Colin on the baritone, the pressure is high. Carefully selected from a way longer session, this shorter album is just that : full-on free interaction with no boundaries hold, spiced by the friendship of both musicians and the respect for each other’ skills and approaches. Out on RAW TONK RECORDS. Order here.
SALT PEANUTS reviews :
“Earthworks is the third duo album of Webster and Serries, who collaborated on numerous other projects, and it was recorded at Sunny Side Studio in Anderlecht, Belgium, in May 2022 and released on Webster’s label, Raw Tonk. Webster plays here on the baritone sax and Serries on archtop guitar and the eight short pieces suggest energetic and restless sonic collisions that exhaust the extended breathing and strumming and bowing techniques of these gifted improvisers. Webster and Serries know each other’s sonic palette inside out and keep challenging each other with great respect and deep listening as well as adventurous spirit and uncompromising determination to keep pushing forward their sonic envelopes.”
What a disastrous year it was again but let us try to focus on the beautiful things in life. The music we love to create, share with our kindred spirits, listeners and supporters. It has been overwhelming to say the least : thank you all and hope to see you out there on the road as many live concerts will come in 2024 !
Wishing you a fine transition into the new year.
In no particular order :
DIRK SERRIES – FLUCTUATION OF BEING (CD, Midira Records)
DIRK SERRIES (in conjunction with Stefano Gentile) – THE DISINTEGRATION OF SILENCE (CD + booklet, 13/Silentes)
DIRK SERRIES – NOCTURNAL DISCORD (cassette, Cloudchamber Recordings)
DIRK SERRIES – REGENERATION : Live At Hundred Years Gallery (cdr, Hundred Years Gallery)
VIDNA OBMANA – DANTE TRILOGY (Tremor, Spore, Legacy) (3xCD, Zoharum)
VIDNA OBMANA – CROSSING THE TRAIL (CD, Zoharum)
SCATTERWOUND – TL (3xCD, Midira Records)
LOUD AS GIANTS – Empty Homes (LP/CD, Consouling Sounds)
COLIN WEBSTER & DIRK SERRIES – EARTHWORKS (CD, Raw Tonk Records)
COLIN WEBSTER LARGE ENSEMBLE – FIRST MEETING (CD, Raw Tonk Records)
JOHN EDWARDS/ANDREW LISLE/DIRK SERRIES/COLIN WEBSTER – OUT OF NOWHERE (CD, Raw Tonk Records)
DIRK SERRIES/BENEDICT TAYLOR/FRISO VAN WIJCK – LE SUD (CD, Creative Sources)
ERNESTO RODRIGUES/DIRK SERRIES/JOSÉ OLIVEIRA/JOÃO MADEIRA – DRIPPING (CD, Creative Sources)
IMPETUS GROUP – DENSITY DOTS (CD, Klanggalerie)
KODIAN PLUS – DISENGAGE – (CD, A New Wave Of Jazz)
VARIOUS ARTISTS – LIVE AT PLUS-ETAGE (3xCD, A New Wave Of Jazz)
Most titles are still available through these bandcamp sites : https://newwaveofjazz.bandcamp.com/ & https://dirkserries.bandcamp.com/ & https://vidnaobmana.bandcamp.com/
VIDNA OBMANA’s 1998 ‘CROSSING THE TRAIL’ get the royal remaster treatment on Polish label ZOHARUM. Completely remastered and with new (but related) photography by Martina Verhoeven, this album was the surprising follow-up to the highly succesful THE RIVER OF APPEARANCE (1996). Instead of following the same path of this semi-classic ambient album on Projekt Records, VIDNA OBMANA returned with an album that pushed the boundaries for him. Influenced by the tribal grooves and structures Steve Roach has been creating, VIDNA took his own turn on it. Special guests include Steve Roach himself, guitarist Jeff Pearce and Martina Verhoeven. Get your copy here.
MUSIQUE MACHINE reviewed VIDNA OBMANA’s DANTE TRILOGY 3xCD reissue on ZOHARUM and gave it a 5 out 5 rating !
Available here.
“Dante Trilogy is the next in the series of reissues of the albums from the important/ influential European ambient project Vidna Obmana by Poland’s Zoharum. As its title suggests it’s a three-album/ CD set- bringing together the following early 2000 albums- Tremor, Spore, and Legacy– all originally released by Release Entertainment, the Sub-label of Relapse Records for ambient, noise, and experimental works. The vibe over all three albums is decidedly darkly eastern & mysterious- with use of ethnic to eerily dissonating percussive elements.
The three discs come presented in an eight-panel fold digipak. This takes in on its back & front cover a moodily monochrome picture of what looks like a frost-touched strap over aged wood. With dull gold boxes featuring the various texts related to the three albums- as well as quotes from Dante’s inferno. It’s a simple, but very effective-looking package- which nicely enhances the feeling of dark timeliness running through all three of the albums featured here.
So first up we have Tremor– this was originally released in September of 2001. It features eleven tracks- which have runtimes between three and just over eight minutes. We move from “Mindtunnel” with its mix of stripped-back-but-eerily detailed ethnic percussion and broodingly waving flute-like tones. Onto steady-yet-ghostly drum battering rhythms meets the darkly swelling string-like ambience of the title track. Through to the soothing disorientation of “Descent” with its hazy layer-like shift- which hints at warble, shimmer, and scrape. The whole album really brought to my mind walking the shadowy corridors of an ancient pyramid- as leathery unseen snakes slither, nocturnal insect life scuttles, and maybe even the dead & wrapped human inhabitancy of the place decide to come back to life.
Disc number two takes in Spore– this was originally released in January 2003. It takes in nine tracks- with runtimes of three to seventeen minutes. We go dripping ‘n’ snapping percussion meets buzzing bass line of “Skin Strip” which is underfed by lightly gliding & shadowy ambient simmer. Onto the tight ‘n’ clipped electro pitter-patter meets drifting & warbling unease of “Creep- Isolation Trip”. Through to the gloomy bass ebbs and creepy guitar picking of the title track. This album feels less about forming a connected sonic picture, and more about creating separate snapshots of ambient unease, and subtle beat-bound atmospherics.
Finally, we of course have Legacy– this was first released in October of 2004. It’s made up of eight tracks- which have runtimes of between two and eight minutes. We move from the steady almost electro-rock-like drumbeats, shimmer & hazing ambient tones, and broodingly gliding bass lines of “Torment And Resolution”. Through to distant warbling horn unease, stripped back shuffling ‘n’ sliding percussion, and backwards tone disquiet of “The Virtual Insomnia”. Through to the gloomy unease and circling eerier disquieting of the title track- which blends together recycled bass guitar hover, and atmospheric guitar scaping. Of the three albums I’d say Legacy is the most sonically varied from track to track, we also get a few guests too like vocals from Steve Von Till on one track, and guitar from Steven Wilson on another track. As a whole, I’d say that Dante Trilogy features some of Vidna Obmana’s most approachable, at times darkly majestic work. So this would be a most excellent inroad/ introduction to the project’s discography. I can’t imagine this set has got a huge pressing- so I’d most certainly act sooner rather than later to get your hands on this set. Simply put another great addition to this reissue series, and three great early 2000s ambient-electronic albums. “
DARK ENTRIES REVIEW : “We hebben al verschillende heruitgaven van het werk van Vidna Obmana door het Poolse Zoharum besproken, en zolang ze blijven uitkomen, gaan wij verder op ons elan. Vidna Obmana is een buitengewoon productieve Belgische artiest die al sinds het midden van de jaren tachtig ambient maakt, en samengewerkt heeft met namen als Hybryds, Steve Roach, Serge Devadder, David Lee Myersen en PBK.
Tussen 1984 en 2007 bracht Vidna Obmana niet minder dan 87 uitgaves uit, om daarna onder zijn werkelijke naam Dirk Serries verder te gaan. Zoharum heeft ondertussen tien heruitgaves van Vidna Obmana op de teller staan, en daar moet u weten dat één heruitgave vaak twee of drie platen van Vidna Obmana bevat. Deze ‘Dante Trilogy’ bevat bijvoorbeeld drie platen die tussen 2001 en 2004 verschenen.
Bij zoveel overvloed aan ambient zou u kunnen denken dat het allemaal een beetje als hetzelfde klinkt, maar dat is hier uitdrukkelijk niet het geval. Waar de verschillende werken die we besproken hebben uit het einde van de jaren tachtig vooral elektronica en loops bevatten, wordt hier met een panoplie aan echte instrumenten gewerkt, en klinkt de muziek aanzienlijk minder repetitief.
U merkt aan de naam ‘Dante Trilogy’ dat de trilogie die hier voorgesteld wordt een thema heeft, en u kunt misschien wel raden dat het hier om het beroemde ‘Inferno’ van de Italiaanse middeleeuwse schrijver Dante Alighieri gaat. De beslissing om rond dit thema te werken nam Vidna Obmana blijkbaar omdat hij bij een nieuw label getekend had – Relapse Records / Release Entertainment – dat gespecialiseerd was in metal.
Nu weten we natuurlijk dat metalfans vaak interesse hebben in dark ambient, maar dan liefst als het echt donker en luguber is. De keuze voor de ‘Inferno’ van Dante als thema komt daar zeker aan tegemoet. Bovendien had Vidna Obmana het gevoel in een doodlopend straatje te zitten. Hij had hard gewerkt om zich een naam te maken in de ambientwereld, en wou nieuwe horizonten verkennen. Het bleek een heel goede zet te zijn, want zijn ‘Dante Trilogy’ werd effectief als baanbrekend beschouwd.
Eigenlijk maakt ‘Inferno’ ook deel uit van een trilogie van Dante Alighieri, die begon met de hel (Inferno), vervolgde met de louteringsberg (Purgatorio) en eindigde met de hemel (Paradiso). Vast staat dat Dante in ballingschap leefde toen hij zijn ‘Comedia’ schreef. Door een politiek conflict waarbij Dante behoorde tot een fractie die het onderspit delfde, moest hij van Florence naar Rome verkassen. U begrijpt dat Dante bijgevolg zijn politieke tegenstanders, waaronder de machtsbeluste paus Bonifatius VIII, in de hel plaatste.
Het beeld van de hel dat Dante creëert is zeer donker, met uitvoerige beschrijving van de aangepaste straffen voor verschillende soorten misdadigers. Volgens sommige critici was Dante zelf depressief en misschien zelfs suïcidaal toen hij zijn ‘Comedia’ schreef. ‘La Divinia Comedia’ – de meer uitvoerige titel die pas twee eeuwen na de dood van Dante werd gegeven aan zijn magnum opus – wordt hoe dan ook als een literair meesterwerk uit de middeleeuwen beschouwd.
Laten we teruggaan naar de muziek en de trilogie die nu in onze cd-speler draait. Het eerste deel van de trilogie heet ‘Tremor’ en kwam in september 2001 uit. Het was een stijlbreuk voor Vidna Obmana, die hier gebruik maakt van heel wat instrumenten: boventoonfluiten, fujara’s, elektrische gitaren en ebow harmonieën, allemaal bijgestaan door heel wat galm en atmosferische geluiden en door variërende tribale ritmes. Toegegeven, Serries had reeds eerder met deze elementen gewerkt, maar hier vormen ze echt de basis van de atmosferische klankvelden.
Op het tweede deel van de trilogie – ‘Spore’, dat in januari 2003 verscheen – grijpt Vidna Obmana deels terug naar typisch elektronisch gevormde ritmes, al blijft de nadruk wel liggen op galmende fluiten en andere geluiden. Belangrijk is dat Dirk Serries hier ook andere muzikanten uitnodigt om mee te spelen. Joris De Backer brengt contrabas en strijkers aan op twee nummers, en niemand minder dan Marc Verhaegen – in wiens versie van The Klinik Dirk Serries ooit gespeeld heeft – brengt wat trompet op het slotnummer.
Het derde deel ‘Legacy’ uit 2004 verrast door te starten met een stuk gesproken woord uit ‘Inferno’ door Steve Von Till van Neurosis. Uiteraard komen de meer zweverige elementen die we uit de vorige delen kennen snel aan bod. De samenwerkingen worden nog uitgebreider, en bevatten zelfs elektrische gitaar door Steven Wilson van Porcupine Tree, waar Serries verschillende keren mee samenwerkte. Vrouwlief Martina Verhoeven – die zoals steeds instaat voor de lay-out van de heruitgaven – deed ook een bijdrage met ‘gerecycleerde stemmen’.
Zonder enige twijfel is ‘Dante Trilogy’ een van de meest gevarieerde werken van Vidna Obmana. De vraag stelt zich zelfs of dit nog ambient is, iets wat Dirk Serries zelf ook in vraag gesteld heeft. Voor mij is het dat vast en zeker wel, ook al wijkt Vidna Obmana hier behoorlijk af van de platgetreden paden in het genre. Het vormt één geheel dat rustig en galmend voorbij kabbelt. Het resultaat is een zeer opmerkelijk werk dat bijzonder rijk is aan geluiden en atmosferen, wat mij net aanzet om deze uitgave – dat terecht de drie cd’s in één pakket bevat – sterk aan te bevelen.”
YODOK III, the super band around TOMAS JÄRMYR (drums), KRISTOFFER LO (tuba) and DIRK SERRIES (electric guitar), are playing the Lowlands this Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Since their debut gathering in Norway August 2012, YODOK III have established a huge live reputation for creating these incredible soundscapes balancing between post-rock, doom, ambient, drone and avant-garde.
Performances are quite infrequent, due to the busy schedules of all 3 musicians, but now they are back with 3 new live concerts, playing Paradox (Tilburg, NL) on November 9th, November 10th at Oefenbunker (Landgraaf, NL) and JH Sojo (Leuven, B) on November 11th. Comes highly recommended.
Check out the reviews of DIRK SERRIES’ The Disintegration Of Silence album on 13/Silentes with the beautiful artwork of Stefano Gentile. Available here.
“The most extensive package is the 28-page booklet, 8 inches squared of collages by label boss Stefano Gentile and music by Dirk Serries. The two go back some thirty years, when Gentile’s first label enterprise, Amplexus, released a 3″CD by Serrires, then working as Vidna Obmana. Four years ago, Gentile released some more music by Serries, now working under his own name, on vinyl and ‘The Disintegration Of Silence’ is their latest offering. In the booklet, we find collages by Gentile from fashion ads, words, and newspapers, all looking quite colourful. As I am playing Serries’ music at the same time, I am thinking about his music concerning the collages. Maybe the music resembles black-and-white photography of nature shots, trees and such. Still, the relation between images and music becomes more apparent if you look at the images as worn-out pages from magazines from a long time ago. These days, Serries is more known as a player of free
improvised music, but he occasionally returns to the world of ambient music, and this is what he does here, playing five excellent moody tunes on his guitar. Many guitar effects are used, some of which are a bit hissy, such as in the second part. At times, it sounds like he has been made on a reel-to-reel tape, using various bits of tape stuck together, with the music recorded later. It creates a refined, somewhat unsettling atmosphere and sometimes just a beautiful atmosphere in the longest and final piece. It’s always good to hear Serries doing this kind of music occasionally. I understand his heart might be somewhere else, but I assume he also wants to unwind after a hard day of improvising and do what he does very well. A true beauty. ” Vital Weekly – The Netherlands
“Dirk Serries è un artista integro che ha continuato a fare la sua musica non curandosi delle mode. Ammetto personalmente di essere stato un fan di Vidna Obmana soprattutto all’epoca della mitica trilogia ambient costituita da Passage In Beauty, Shadowing In Sorrow ed Ending Mirage. Tuttavia, anche dopo aver dismesso il monicker Vidna Obmana, il musicista belga ha dimostrato di non avere perso la sua ispirazione. Attualmente continua a pubblicare lavori di grande pregio in cui predilige l’uso della chitarra elettrica. Ma a mio avviso si tratta solo di un cambio di forma: la sostanza infatti è rimasta la stessa. Anche ascoltando questo nuovo The Disintegration Of Silence, che esce per la Silentes di Stefano Gentile, la sensazione è che il feeling sia rimasto lo stesso degli esordi. Indubbiamente c’è stata una ricerca di nuove strade il che penso sia anche comprensibile. Tutte le esperienza hanno una fine ma l’importante è che il sacro fuoco dell’ispirazione continui ad ardere; e il fuoco di Dirk Serries, a differenza di altri, non si è ancora spento. Durante l’ascolto di una traccia come “Reflection” la mia mente è tornata alla raffinatezza irreale di Vidna Obmana. Una menzione poi per la lussuosa confezione e per l’artwork di Stefano Gentile, autore anche delle deliziose illustrazione pop-art che troviamo all’interno e che rendono The Disintegration Of Silence un vero e proprio oggetto da collezione.” Ver Sacrum – Italy
Digitally out on DIRK SERRIES’ bandcamp is a selection of outtakes from his acclaimed and sold-out NOCTURNAL DISCORD release on Cloudchamber Recordings. Belgium’s MUSICZINE just reviewed this digital-only album. Available here.
“Dirk Serries is een muzikant, producer en componist die van vele markten thuis is; de releases volgen elkaar in snel tempo op. Al die releases van de laatste maanden bespreken, is een onmogelijke zaak. Maar we buigen even het hoofd over zijn laatste meesterwerk ‘ Nocturnal Discord Outtakes’. Drie songs die afklokken op circa tien minuten. Waarbij Dirk Serries zijn veelzijdigheid aantoont.
Een geflirt van donkere gedachten en rustgevende soundscapes horen we op ”Alternative Lullaby”, eentje die je compleet ‘zen’ maakt, eens je in die mooie wereld bent in gestapt.
Het fijne aan Dirk Serries’ muziek is dat hij duisternis aangenaam doet aanvoelen, een gemoedsrust daalt over je neer, ipv de angst van het donkere.
Het ellenlange, wondermooie “Monumental Twitch” , met een klank gerelateerd aan strijkers, zorgt voor een sprookjesachtige wereld. Magisch mooi. “Autum Reprise” bezorgt je meer dan tien minutenlang een krop in de keel; een sound gelinkt aan klanken bij een opera . Wat dan weer het filmische van de muziek onderschrijft. Want deze muziek zou perfect passen bij romantische en suspense films. Emotie is hier het centrale gegeven. Een typische weg die hij blijft bewandelen, maar daar waar hij soms gebruikt maakt van oorverdovende drone geluiden,
‘Nocturnal Discord Outtakes’ bewandelt duidelijk de weg van rust en kalmte, die grenzen kan doen verleggen. Oorverdovende drone geluiden komen hier niet te pas.
Het is de perfecte plaat om even de jachtigheid opzij te plaatsen en gemoedsrust te laten heersen.”
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