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AUN - Motorsleep

Format: CD
Label & Cat.Number: Alien 8 Recordings ALIEN CD 80
Release Year: 2009
Note: new album by one of our favourite new drone-acts!! deeply recommended and soon with a 7" on Drone Records!!
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Eine der schönsten Drone-Alben des Jahres 2009 ist für uns dieses Klang-Juwel von AUN! So behutsam wie mysteriös beginnend, in fuzzigen Bass-Sirenentönen und wallenden Tremolos wandelnd, bevor wundersamste polyphone Drone-Harmonien entstehen, die zwischen sehnsuchtsvoller, fast schon romantischer Sanftheit und rauhen Distortionpassagen oszillieren. 8 Indexe die ineinander übergehen, 56+ minutes. "Wie Schönbergs „Luft von anderem Planeten“ diesen Planeten meinte, nur anders, so zeigen AUNs ‚Unworlds‘ ebenfalls diese Welt, nur wie posthuman ausgeräumt. H. G. Ballard hat solche Szenerien beschrieben - etwa in ‚The Terminal Beach‘." [Bad Alchemy]
"Blight Metal nennt er seinen Stil selbst („blight" kann für Pesthauch oder Verschandelung stehen), Ambient Doom träfe es aber auch: über-, hinter- und nebeneinander schichtet Dumais atmosphärische Gitarrensounds, die er durch eine ganze Armada von Effektgeräten schickt, ähnlich also, wie es aktuell auch TO BLACKEN THE PAGES oder NADJA angehen." [Andre Bohnensack, OX-Fanzine]

"AUN is the ambient doom project of Montreal's Martin Dumais, who describes his take on outsider metal meets shoegaze as 'blight metal'. He has been a crucial contributor to the Montreal music scene for years and has recently reinvented himself with some of his deepest and most contemplative work to date under the AUN moniker. Elements of AUN's sound can be traced to the classic period of ambient music marked by the likes of Cluster & Eno as well as to contemporary players such as Tim Hecker. On Motorsleep the intensity of the drone gently climaxes to the point where ambience gives way to power and grandeur. It is here that the influence of early industrial music is revealed and trace elements of bands such as Swans lie just beneath the surface. Motorsleep is the result of the better part of a year's work spent shaping and solidifying the body of compositions that make up the recording. There is a strong sense of structure, continuity and flow that breathes throughout the long player. The release is broken down into seven movements all of them blending into one another almost seamlessly. The intensity slowly picks up over the course of the first few movements and reaches full power during the third and fourth pieces. Here the sound is rather dense and saturated with grainy ambient noise that slowly subsides and eventually gives way to a series of closing movements that recall the likes of Fennesz or a more menacing William Basinski. In a live situation AUN crafts his sound through guitar and a bevy of effects, offering a far more engaging visual experience than your average laptop-based performance. AUN's live show has been steadily improving alongside his recorded efforts and Motorsleep is without a doubt his most mature work to date. Motorsleep was skillfully mastered by former Khanate member James Plotkin, who has created plenty of like-minded music of his own over the years. To date AUN has released three solo records as well as a collaborative effort with Allseits on Montreal-based label Oral and released another outing as AUN entitled Multigone for the American label, Crucial Blast." [label info]

"...No arpeggio's around here, but long, endless sustaining sounds, with sounds captured in a chain of sound effects. As chilling as warm. More abstract than 'Irrlicht', this is music that should appeal to lovers of the old German sound, attached to the latter day experimentalists of Maeror Tri/Troum, Köner and to some extent Asmus Tietchens. Or, to be hip, Emeralds raw take on the genre. Nice one." [FdW / Vital Weekly]

"...The music at its most minimal shimmers and glistens, spidery bits of crystalline sound set amidst deep rumbling tones and slow shifting textures, often building into almost orchestral swells, sometimes slipping into something murky and blurred and barely metallic, other times glimmering like and expanse of starry sky, not
so much doomy as just dark and dolorous. This might well be too dreamy and drifty for troo doomlords, but for anyone into fuzzy distorted shimmer, Japer TX, Machinefabriek, Tim Hecker and that sort of washed out buzz flecked loveliness, then Aun will definitely hit the spot." [Aquarius Records review]

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