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ILLUSION OF SAFETY - Sedation & Quell

Format: 10inch Label & Cat.Number: Crippled Întellect Productions CIP 021 Release Year: 2008 Note: the great comeback after 4 years! Price (incl. 19% VAT): €13.50 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info Endlich neues Material von DAN BURKE aka ILLUSION OF SAFETY, zwei schwelend-spannungsgeladenen ambient Industrial Stücke, die ganz leise & bedächtig beginnen und sich unheimlich fortbewegen, während zunehmend knirschende Kurzwellen- oder Digital-Sounds & Effekte ins Hörfeld geraten... ein sehr sehr dichtes Klanggewebe, kommt auf hellgelb / goldenem, klaren Vinyl. "the first 10" by IOS, one of a handful of American icons of experimental music. Dan Burke is entering his 25th year of developing challenging, engaging audio, having performed nearly 200 times in the United States, Canada, and Europe and releasing material on labels worldwide. Side one is a pleasantly dense, yet not cluttered by any means, assemblage of diverse elements including an old typewriter, turntable pops/crackles, and what ~appears~ to be shortwave radio interference topped by subtle frequency and oscillation tweaks. Side two offers a beautiful counterbalance: after an initial punch announcing the track, we waver through numerous delicate swimming tones that are eventually subdued by a listing rhythmic faction suffused with other surprises... Those familiar with Dan's work will not be disappointed, and for folks who may not be familiar with it, if you enjoy artists such as Joe Colley or the Hafler Trio, or enjoy musique concrete this will be of interest to you." [label info] "... These days Illusion Of Safety celebrate their twenty-fifth anniversary and it's mainly Dan Burke solo. Still on the road, still on top of things, but music is no longer his main thing, diversing with other activities in life and away from the endless pressure of having to deliver music. So the releases have become sparse, but are still great. Two pieces on this 10" 'Sedation' and 'Quell'. Both pieces are concentrated works of densely knitted web of sounds. Apparently Burke uses an old typewriter, turntable pops/crackles, shortwave and oscillations. The two pieces could be brothers in arms. Slow development, taking time to take shape. Dense but not blurred. This is the Illusion Of Safety side of ambient - not comforting quiet, but discomforting beautiful. 'Sedation' is a humming low end piece with tension lurking underneath. Two great pieces of someone who should have his name writing large in the annals of music history (but of course won't, since there is no such thing as justification)." [FdW / Vital Weekly] "...This milestone has not softened the psychologically dark currents of one of America's finest producers of post-industrial abstraction and silence-plus-noise sound construction. Sedation & Quell is the first of many releases slated for 2008, being a vinyl-only release pressed on translucent gold vinyl. Sedation bristles with low end frequencies capable of delivering catatonic states. Vinyl crackling and warm swathes of radio hiss billow out of the deep deep deep dronings, and huge oceanic swells of growling frequencies offer a lethargic rhythm to this dark ambient opus. On Quell, a brusque crunch of electronic malfunction is followed by a steady hypnosis of rumbling drones which in turn are engulfed by a wash of hiss and white noise. While it's not the aggressiveness of Prurient or Merzbow that Illusion Of Safety is going for, there is a malevolent strain to this production, as if Machinefabriek were to gingerly steer towards power electronics ever so slightly. Very well done!" [Aquarius Records review]