ONODERA, YUI - Suisei

Format: CD

Label & Cat.Number: and/OAR and/28

Release Year: 2007

Note: wonderful drone-waves with very soft concrete drops, watersounds, etc... a highlight of meditative / minimal drone muzak this year! one-tracker 41+ minutes / digipack / lim. 300

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Wunderbare Drone-Wallungen mit sehr soften konkreten Tupfern, Wassersounds, etc.. ein wahrer Hauch an aromatisiertem, magischem Wohlklang, definitiv eines der Highlights des Jahres in Sachen "meditative / minimale" Drones...

"Suisei is a work composed from field recordings and pump organ. Edited and re-mastered by Dale Lloyd. With Suisei, each listener's inner cinema will find its camera lens slowly panning and cross-fading from one enigmatic location to another, as if unveiling ambiguous visual clues pertaining to some wondrous culminating event that many might not fully understand, yet it will still manage to leave an indelible impression upon the subconscious mind and a very subtle pull on the emotions. A mystery drone soundscape journey along the shores of an unfathomable glistening sea. Packaged in four-color digipak. Very limited at 300 copies." [label info]

".... as Suisei is a gorgeous album of darkly textured drones with parallels to Thomas Koner's isolationist compositions or Keith Berry's precious deconstructions. Wind, rain, and water all make themselves known in the collection of field recordings, as does the pump organ, which reveals itself in harmonic sustained tones with a spectral timbre
(e.g. Niblock, Radigue, Chalk, etc.). During a particular enigmatic episode, wooden creaks and sodden groans duet with a motorized persistant soft-grind, giving the impression that some unscrupulous machine is quietly compacting sinews, meat, and bone. Strangely, it never sounds macabre or unsettlingly grotesque; rather, these crunching textures situate humbly next to a hypnotic wash of compressed static and melancholic shadowy drone, which sublimely
shift into a slippery crescendo of grey massed sound. Very, very well done!" [Aquarius Records review]

label-website: www.and-oar.org