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VROMB - Sous Hypnose

Format: CD
Label & Cat.Number: Ant-Zen act202
Release Year: 2007
Note: 7th album
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"hypnosis - a process in which the critical thinking faculties of the mind are bypassed and a type of selective thinking/perception is established. this process can be achieved without any impact (consider the mind when it is half asleep or half awake). this album's intention is to aurally simulate a hypnosis session (such as one conducted by a hypnotherapist). if a 'subject' is willing to engage with the topic then different steps of hypnosis can be retraced while listening: preparation, induction (taking the subject from normal awareness to a state of enhanced relaxation), deepening (taking the subject from a very relaxed state into the fully 'hypnotized' state, where conscious thinking is minimized), purpose (when the subjects are asked to say or perform things) and finally awakening (when the subject is taken out of the hypnotic state). the music starts with straight forward (but calm) rhythmic patterns - patterns that are in place to reach a state of trance. the music changes the same way as the subject's perception does: rhythm is replaced with surreal ambient soundscapes, incomprehensible voices start to talk and then a constant but always changing flow takes over - a strange and unfamiliar experience is the result - due to the subject's inexperience. but the experience is never threatening as the final process of awakening is performed very carefully. either way, the subject will immediately realize the session is over. it matters not if you take the invitation to use 'sous hypnose' as an occasion to start a fascinating experiment, or if you just want to enjoy the new work of vromb; this album is a highly recommended document of today's serious electronic music (as all of this great canadian artist's releases are)." [label info]

"There has always been a ritualistic and trance-inducing feeling in the music from Canadian composer Vromb. The brain behind the project, Hugo Girrard, has a quite unique expression with oscillating, minimalist frequencies, rotating sequences and bubbling technoid sounds creating his quite unique repetitiveness. The ritual factor is intact on this seventh full-length album titled "Sous hypnose" released on German label Ant-Zen Recordings. With a title that in English means "Under hypnosis" experienced listeners of Vromb should know that the ritual style remains. And it definitely does. Despite the intended titled, I doubt that many hypno-therapists would dare to let their average customer sink into this world of icy drones and cynic rhythm textures. Unquestionably though it would be a quite interesting experience for the patient. The nine tracks drift back and forth between futuristic sci-fi ambient and rhythm textures that develop from non-existing across subdued layers moving up to the front of the sound picture. The great French spoken voice of Vromb does penetrate occasionally sounding like the hypnotist himself. If you enjoy the frostbitten sonic world of Vromb you will definitely appreciate this latest sci-fi launch from the Canadian." [Vital Weekly]


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