DIRAC - Phon

Format: CD

Label & Cat.Number: Valeot Records 9

Release Year: 2010

Note: third album by this Austrian project; a mixture of chamber-music, drones & electronica, executed in a great way

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"phon is dirac's third studio record and consists only of one track lasting for over 40 minutes. the whole production was done by dirac themselves, from mixing & mastering to layouting. an astonishing monument of dirac’s musical philosophy and sound." [label info]

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"The first release by Dirac was a self-titled album for U-Cover, which I missed out upon, but the second 'Emphasis' was reviewed in Vital Weekly 708. Here is their third album. Dirac is a trio of Peter Kutin, Daniel Lerchner and Florian Kindlinger, and among them they use laptops and acoustic instruments. The press text says that this CD consists of 'one track, an uncut first take recording', yet the cover of the CD says it was 'performed & arranged by Dirac 2007-2010'. That seems to be some sort of contradiction. Unless of course they have been rehearsing for three years to record this version (or perhaps recording it for three years to arrive what they see as the ultimate version. That's also possible). The one piece has four parts as outlined on a drawing on the cover, which perhaps shows how the volume evolves on this recording. Dirac say they play 21st century chamber music. The music here seems a bit 'louder', or perhaps 'more present' than on the previous release, but all along
deal with the same approach. Dirac plays some excellent mood music. Highly drone based most of the times, with some oil installation like percussive sounds in the third part. Whatever those laptops do around here is not easy to say and instrument wise I can merely say that I am bound think its a lot of guitars and effects at work here. But everything blurs in a nice way together and it doesn't seem to matter what is what here. An excellent release, that should appeal to those who like their drones to be both ambient and a bit (post-) rock inspired." [FdW, Vital Weekly]