Bardoseneticcube & Vresnit & Kshatriy : Tvorenie, CD
Vetvei, V20
New release on Vetvei is a compilation of three groups. Two groups are one-man affairs, Vresnit (who gets credit for 'creation') and Kshatriy ('capture, transformation and manifestation') and Bardoseneticcube (which I believed was an one man project, but you see I am wrong again), a three piece of 'soundkonstrukto, overtone singing and vocal'. The latter open up with two tracks of nicely mellow electronic music, beautiful female vocals (in Russian) and no doubt some sort of processed overtone singing. The other five pieces, two by Kshatriy, one by Vresnit and two by them together, are more 'alike': its hard to tell the difference between them, in the next four tracks. Quite nice ambient/drone/atmospheric music is in play here, with deep space synthesizers, lots of sustain and field recordings. The CD closes with a solo piece by Vresnit, which is a like the preceding four, but with a slightly more orchestral feel to it. No doubt sampled together but it breaks away from the more esoteric, heavenly synths and is therefor a fine piece to end it all. Nice compilation!
Author: FdW, Vital Weekly
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum : Tryakusta, CD
Vetvei, V17
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum is a shamanistic ethno-ambient project from Russian composer Evgeny Savenko, also with releases under the name Lunar Abyss and Lunar Abyss Quartet. Since 2000, 'Tryakusta' is about the 25th release from Savenko under various monikers, and it's really quite a good one. 'Tryakusta' consists of a single track 42 minutes and 27 seconds in length that is the result of mixing together the recordings of three live concerts that took place on separate occasions in July of 2010. It's an interesting hodge-podge of field recordings, drones, and miscellaneous random elements and electronics that somehow coalesce into a unified work. There is a LOT going on here, as if one stumbled into some very active primeval jungle; chattering, chittering jibbering, whisting bird calls, buzzing and burbling, voices, and a multilayered wall of ambient drone. The amount of content is awesome, maybe even too much, but it all seems to fit together. There is a point around the 27
minute mark where it threatens to become overwhelming, but this passes and gradually subsides. 'Tryakusta' is quite an intense listening experience, extremely psychedelic and full of a wide variety of sonic expressions. Possibly a reason why it sounds so good is due to the participation of Kshatriy (Sergey Uak-Kib) in the mastering of the album. As per usual with Vetvei releases, the CD comes in six panel folder with colorfully gorgeous artwork by Vresnit. If you're looking for something experimentally adventurous, LADO's 'Tryakusta' could be just what you need.
Author: Chain D.L.K.
I believe I once saw a concert by Lunar Abyss Deus Organum, open air, small square in St. Petersburg, in which the surrounding sounds of the environment (cars, people walking and talking, birds) added a sort of nice texture to the proceedings on the small stage. I don't recall if it was an one man band, or more, but perhaps that was due to the nature of the afternoon when this took place: some ad-hoc bands were formed and played. There was an amount of instruments on stage, all filed under 'electronics' and a microphone for some kind of overtone singing. Not this concert, but three others were moulded into one forty-two minute piece of music, which is on the release 'Tryakusta', all from july last year. Lunar Abyss Deus Organum has that sort of sound that ties ambient and industrial firmly together: many layers of electronic sounds, a sort of overtone singing and field recordings. Once the mighty wheel is in motion, this goes on and on, in a positive manner. A full on drone sound that lasts for the entire forty two minutes. Maybe we hear three concerts at once I thought. Quite a refined work.
Author: FdW, Vital Weekly
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum + Hattifnatter & Neznamo & Kshatriy & Vresnit : Sonastroika, CD-R
Vetvei, V14
A collective performance recording with Vresnit, Kskatriy, Neznamo, Hattifnatter, Lunar Abyss Deus Organum, with the assistance of VJ Yury Elika from November, 4th, 2010 at the ESG-21 club, St.-Petersburg. There were no separate performances of projects that evening, the participants were entirely collaborative. Field recordings, voices, guitars, synthesizers, wind instruments and extensive electronic devices were used to create this awesome ambient soundscape. This work is nearly impossible to describe. I believe I have reviewed about four other Vetvei releases, and so far, this one has been the most daunting. On this recording over half of the Vetvei roster of artists are acting together to bring to fruition something more or less spontaneously improvised and the results are mind-blowing. The CD consists of six tracks ranging from a little over 4 minutes to a little over 16 minutes for a total of nearly 49 ½ minutes but the music tends to flow seamlessly, so you may not notice
a whole lot of difference from track to track. This is a more 'active' kind of ambient than passive, where things and events happen, and believe me, there is a whole lot happening. Considering that there are least 5 (or possibly six or more) people involved, it is amazing that they didn't step all over each other. It certainly doesn't sound like they did. There is a high psychedelic factor to this performance, much of it dense and intense, although it is episodic in a certain sense too, as it ebbs and flows. In general, 'Sonastroika' has a dark feel to it; ominous, foreboding, sometimes cosmic, sometimes jarring, even terrifying. I suppose it depends on your mood. It is not what I would call meditative, although there are some relatively calm passages. These could be construed as alien landscapes from some distant galaxy; sonic constructs that go way beyond the pale of human experience. Yet, some familiarity creeps in, a barking dog and whispered voices beneath the moaning of
unearthly voices..the distant strains of some classical music'¦but these are atypical elements. Drones are omnipresent, and washes of noise ranging from small waves to huge slabs make their appearance. Lots of echo, echo, echo, echo'¦the occasional repeated whistling sample, bass rumblings and bell tones'¦combined ity all sounds so'¦vast. If anything, you will get more than you bargained for with 'Sonastroika'. As per usual, the CD comes in a colorful 6-panel folder by Vresnit.
Author: Chain D.L.K.
Scoprire la misteriosa etichetta russa Vetvei e le sue interessanti produzioni, sempre confezionate in edizioni dalla splendida veste grafica, limitate e numerate a mano, è stata una delle esperienze sonore più stimolanti nell'anno in corso. La label gestita da Sergey Ilchuk, mastermind dell'ottimo progetto Vresnit, sta radunando il meglio del semisconosciuto - ma qualitativamente importante - sottobosco industrial/ambient russo, e non è certo un azzardo asserire che siamo di fronte ad un catalogo davvero impeccabile e già piuttosto corposo, sapientemente edificato nel giro di soli due anni. Tanta qualità e spessore concettuale, come è riscontrabile anche in questa particolare release, registrata dal vivo il 4 novembre negli Experimental Sound Gallery di San Pietroburgo e diffusa in sole 181 unità nel formato CDr (estremamente professionale, come sempre). L'act più longevo e discograficamente attivo fra i cinque nomi coinvolti in questa operazione è senza dubbio Lunar Abyss Deus Organum (già noto in passato anche come Lunar Abyss o Lunar Abyss Quartet), ma gli altri progetti, le cui prime uscite risalgono a non più di 2-4 anni fa, risultano comunque tutti molto prolifici, peculiarità che accomuna i membri di questa sorta di 'comunità artistica' nata in seno all'ex-Unione Sovietica. Assistiti dal Vj Yury Elika, i cinque act non si sono esibiti a turno in quella sera di novembre, ma hanno invece collaborato attivamente ed all'unisono alla creazione dei sei estratti (senza titolo) racchiusi nel dischetto. Altra qualità che accomuna i progetti di casa Vetvei è il nitido e suggestivo suono che questi artisti riescono ad ottenere, e non fa eccezione la performance in esame, dove ogni dettaglio emerge nella maniera più consona. Il lotto di nomi coinvolti si rivela abilissimo nell'arricchire con intelligenza ed intensità le desolanti e minacciose trame riverberate in chiave industrial/ambient, giocando con la tensione ed incastrando al meglio samples e strumenti, con punte di severità ed inquietudine rimarchevoli; il culmine viene raggiunto col quinto estratto, che nei suoi oltre 16 minuti presenta una ricchezza di idee e suoni la cui mirabile canalizzazione è diretta testimonianza della piena riuscita degli intenti collaborativi fondanti. Un'altra uscita - e pezzo da collezione - che ha tutte le carte in regola per ingolosire i più selettivi cultori della materia dark ambient e industrial, ulteriore conferma di come la Vetvei sia degna della massima attenzione.
Author: Dark Room Magazine, Roberto Alessandro Filippozzi
In november 2010 Lunar Abyss Deus Organum, Hattifnatter, Neznamo, Kshatriy and Vresnit performed in the Experimental Sound Gallery ESG-21 Club in St. Petersburg. During this performance there were no separate concerts, but the musicians played together. Field recordings, voices, guitars, synthesizers, wind instruments and electronics. This album is the answer to the perestroika for more softness and attention for the combination of nature and culture in Russia. All the musicians are connected during this performance and the quality of this improvisation is high. The sextet created beautiful soundscapes to dream away in meditative moods. Vetvei is a interesting label, especially for lovers of music which is related to drones, psychedelica, meditation and other rituals.
Author: JKH, Vital Weekly
Vresnit : Seed Solar
Vetvei, V13
'Seed Solar' is Vresnit's 6th album on the Vetvie label and he gets a little help from Kshatriy, Hladna and Neznamo on this one. If you're familiar at all with Vresnit, you sort of know what to expect, but every Vetvie release I've come across has been a little different in subtle and sometimes not so subtle ways. 'Seed Solar' is four tracks ranging from a little over 8 minutes to a little over 24 minutes in length. "Preobrazhenie" begins with chirping birds and ominous drones in the background. A ways into the piece things evolve when a very basic tapping rhythm emerges along with bursts of white noise and other sonic elements that include some brief spoken word (Russian) and electronic squiggles. That's pretty much the piece."Zerno Sfera," the aforementioned 24 minute track, begins with a repeated (radio?) sample of some innocuous Russian music accompanied by a spoken phrase repeated in Russian. Tinkling windchimes (singing bowls really), drones and hallucinatory echoed electronic elements emerge growing in intensity and take over the piece fairly forcefully. Then out of nowhere there is a female voice singing some traditional Russian folk melody, an odd soothing contrast to the psychical storm of the swelling, ringing drones. This too morphs into something huge and unworldly and gradually subsides into an atmosphere cosmic and primeval, unfathomable in its evolution. It is as if you were witnessing the genesis of a newly formed planet sped up. Great and terrifying things happen within this opus and it is only limited by your imagination. There is an elongated 'come down' to the end somewhat mirroring the psychedelic experience too. "Veda-Tanec" employs a simple looped rhythm that sounds a bit industrial, like an alien assembly line. More drones of both higher and lower frequencies are added and the higher timbres become flutey along with windchime like tinkling. After a long while the rhythmic loop fades, then the drones, leaving the tinkling sounds and flutes. The tinkling remains to the end after the flutes depart. That's it for this one. Closing the album is "Zashitnyj Svet", a collaboration with Kshatriy that takes ambient noise to a new level. There is an ineffable vastness here that defies description, and yet there are slow moving modulated tones in the background that resemble some kind interstellar music. All too quickly it ends, at 8:10, the shortest piece on the album. This kind of soundscape is assuredly not for everyone, but for those who can't get enough deep space in their ambient music, 'Seed Solar' is definitely for you. As usual, the disc comes in a provocative six-panel cover designed by Vresnit (Ilchuk Sergey) the guy responsible for making this all happen.
Author: Chain D.L.K.
Vresnit released already more albums on Vetvei and Seed Solar is the sixth release on his own label. For this CDR he cooperated with Kshatriy, Hladna and Neznamo and they created four tracks. Seed Solar is more experimental and has a deeper mood than Tajushie. The intensity is stronger, because of the whipping beats and ever floating flutes or the singing of mantras. The album develops into more and more industrial mood, becomes more abstract and multi-layered. No easy-listening ambient, but great music for people who likes drones with a mystic character.
Author: JKH, Vital Weekly
Ilchuk Sergey is an enigmatic Russian artist and deconstructionist responsible of Vresnit, a primal obscure shamanisitc force emrging with the sole purpose to offer you in deep minimalistic atmospheres and drone soundscapes, from a very intesne levels of perceptions due how each one of the releases affects you in one oranother way. So such sensitive dismal and obscure shamanic mantras are present in this special release, including 4 compositions with intense moments from start to finsih. Drone textures and fractal emanations converging into mutative soundscapes are the first conceptions coming to our mind when exploring the first track called "Preobrazhenie" which include the collaborative spirit of Hladna, another ambient ritual project from russia, creating such vaporous atmospheres and primal soundscapes. Then comes the second one called "Zerno Sfera"a suggestive piece focusing into singing bowls, voices, drones and such diverse elements which reminds you to Finnish Halo Manash, the music is intense and obscure."Solar seed" is an album dedicated to solar currents and its mutative seeds in our subconsious realms.In this track you shall experience the colaboration of Hladna & Neznamo."Veda-Tanec" is the third opus, and really we find here a very ritualistic piece full of percussive lements drones and spectral atmopsheres, creating a dismal vortex of atavistic nature, due how the music is created here. So,closing the album is "Zashitnyj Svet", with the collaboration of Kshatriy, is another piece full of dense drone passages mixed with such ritualistic nature elemnts, field recordings and diverse instruments collapsing all the tiem to create a true masterpiece here. The album comes in a solar full-colored envelope and card inside!! ...from the solar seeds a new shining primal light is hidden waiting for you to be discovered, to be inseminated once again and again!!
Author: PAN.O.RA.MA
Come già accennato in una precedente recensione, Vresnit è il progetto musicale di Sergey Ilchuk, titolare della ricercata e superlativa etichetta russa Vetvei, coadiuvata dalla connazionale Aquarellist (altra label estremamente interessante, con un catalogo che vanta anche nomi quali Muslimgauze, Bardoseneticcube, Hybryds e Rapoon) per questa produzione, limitata a 484 copie numerate a mano e, come di consueto, racchiusa in una pregiata confezione apribile. Tenendo presente che l'opera in esame risale alla fine dello scorso anno, e che nel frattempo Vresnit ha presenziato su altri due split a più act, fra uscite soliste o in compagnia di altri talentuosi e misteriosi progetti del blocco ex-sovietico il Nostro è giunto a quota dieci release, e questo in meno di tre anni: una vera e propria iperproduttività, fortunatamente supportata da solide basi compositive, concettuali e qualitative. Supportato nei nove mesi di gestazione dell'opera dai colleghi e label-mates di Kshatriy, Hladna e Neznamo, Sergey è riuscito a convogliare il meglio della sua indiscussa ispirazione nelle quattro tracce che compongono questa sua fatica sulla lunga distanza, forte di un'esperienza maturata in fretta che ben si coniuga ad un raro gusto compositivo. La peculiarità dei brani di "Seed Solar" sta nel riuscire a catturare al meglio determinate atmosfere e nel metterle sagacemente in contrasto, curando in maniera certosina la fase di passaggio con arrangiamenti di gran pregio, ben sottolineati da suoni eccellenti. Field recordings naturalistiche aprono "Preobrazhenie" con grazia, ma il piacevole cinguettio mattutino degli uccelli deve cedere il passo ad una dark ambient plumbea che via via si fa sempre più minacciosa, fino a macchiarsi di abrasioni industriali; allo stesso modo, la danza tribale di "Veda-tanec", direttamente dal cuore di una impenetrabile foresta pluviale, lascia che subentri un'algida onda sonora, pronta a soggiogare prepotentemente la psiche. Il momento più alto dell'opera è però "Zerno Sfera", che nei suoi interminabili 24 minuti sa giostrare benissimo coi campionamenti (anche vocali), prima della inesorabile discesa in un Maelstrom di anime straziate, lacerante preludio ad un finale che definire spettrale è un eufemismo: un'altalena di sensazioni malevole che, per la loro efficacia evocativa, gelano il sangue nelle vene. Le superbe trame oscure dell'abissale "Zashitnyj Svet" si legano a meraviglia ad un vortice vocale realmente inquietante e mistico, a degna chiusura di un lavoro di grande spessore. Voci, strumenti a corde e a fiato, campanelli, campane tibetane, strumenti elettronici, field recordings ed i giusti collaboratori sono quanto serve a Sergey per concretizzare al meglio la propria visione artistica, ed i risultati raggiunti parlano chiarissimo: Vresnit è un act da seguire con la massima attenzione, così come ogni altro progetto legato ad una label - la Vetvei - che sta nobilitando gli sforzi dei molti talenti nascosti nel più oscuro sottobosco russo.
Author: Dark Room Magazine, Roberto Alessandro Filippozzi
Six Dead Bulgarians & Ogni Videniy : 2137, CD-R
Vetvei, V12
More interesting stuff from the Russian Vetvei label, '2137' is a collaborative project by Six Dead Bulgarians & Ogni Videniy (Fires of Images), both of the Northern Russian city of Arkhangelsk. The eleven tracks on this CD were recorded February 13-14 2010 when the moon year 2137 began, hence the numeric title. The work is supposed to be a symbol of deliverance of all negative, collected in the leaving year, and development of positive qualities in a new year. It goes back to an ancient Bon tradition with a Buddhist influence. For the record are used singing bowls, metal, wooden percussion and electronic devices, a jew's-harp, sand and voice. I am not previously acquainted with either of these projects, although I have of (but not heard) Six Dead Bulgarians vs. Moon So Far Away, another Arkhangelsk band that I am a bit familiar with. But this collaboration is quite different than Moon So Far Away's Gothic Neo-Folk.In checking out both project's couple of tracks on their respective
MySpace sites that were not on this CD, there is a little similarity in the elements used is this work but perhaps with more intensity here. Pretty much from the start my feeling about '2137' was one of ambivalence- on the one hand, the sounds are mostly intriguing, on the other, the combinations of them and the structure (if you could call it structure) of the tracks are perplexing. The basics involve chimey (think wind chimes) and klangy sounds with moaning, sweeping electronic oscillators and drone tones. Other elements are employed such as wooden percussion like claves and hand drums, but more as arrhythmic effect than anything rhythmic. A tone akin to a telephone dial tone might emerge'¦then other stray percussive elements. The percussion, chimes, singing bowls, etc., are often echoed off in slow delay. Also you almost get a feeling (no necessarily due to the echo effect) that this could have been recorded in a cave rather than a studio due to the reverberant (wet) space the
recording seems to have in general. The music tends to be largely improvisational with a generally light touch and minimal, where elements don't seem to clash much with each other. The vocals which first emerge in 'Got stuck in Sansara' are manipulated spoken word that are as intelligible as Ron Geesin's on Pink Floyd's 'Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict' from the 'Ummagumma' album. Yet where Geesin plays the mad Scotsman, these vocals sound more like a confused Euro tourist. They must have been employed to conjure a feeling more than say anything but the only feeling I got was befuddlement. I have heard this project has been categorized as 'ritualistic ambient' but from what I've know of ritual ambient music, there tends to be some type of impetus or driving force behind it, at least in the rhythmic or vocal aspects. Here there is nothing you can really pin down as a rhythm, there is no chanting or intoning incantations, and
the form seems to be amorphous. Perhaps the tracks 'Sacrifice' and 'Space Valley' are about the closest thing to the previously ascribed 'Buddhist influence' with their sonority of low Tibetan horns and a seemingly more serious approach. This actually seems to be when Six Dead Bulgarians & Ogni Videniy are at the top of their game. Unfortunately that moods ends all too soon and is replaced by the voice of the befuddled Euro tourist backed by jew's harp on the next track. He sounds like he's having a hard time of it too. Finally though on the last track, 'The Golden Age' we get something that really alludes to ritualistic ambient with low vocal intonation that could be construed as chanting, but is more like 'voweling'. It is brief though and minor as compared with the album as a whole. For those that enjoy enigmatic soundscapes though, '2137' has a lot to offer, especially if you enjoy really out-there psychedelia. Expect a lot of ringing, clangorous tones on this one. '2137' is
rather unclassifiable; not upsetting, just perplexing. As with most all Vetvei releases, the album comes in a six-panel jacket with intriguing colorful artwork by Vresnit.
Author: Chain D.L.K.
On CDR we find a collaboration between two projects from Arkhangelsk, Six Dead Bulgarians and Ogni Videniy, which translates as Fires Of Images. The work was recorded on february 13 and 14 2010, 'when a 2137 moon year began'. Maybe this will give you some clue as to what this is all about: vaguely ritualistic music, made with metal, singing bowls, wooden percussion, jews harp, sand, voice and some electronic devices, by which they mean wind like sounds from a synthesizer. Although ritualistik music (pseudo, quasi or real) is not my cup of tea, I thought this was all quite alright, although not great. I can see why it was released on CDR in a much smaller edition than the other two: unknown bands playing some improvised clutter of percussion sounds and metal scraping in a serious mood. And mood music it is: you need to be in a certain one, to fully experience this. Its the sort of mood I find myself in at times, but then rarely listening to this kind of music. Maybe I lack the space here, as I can imagine this best heard in caves and cathedrals. Also places I am not likely to visit. But surely also a fine experience.
Author: FdW, Vital Weekly
Torniamo a dare spazio alle misteriose, suggestive e sempre interessanti uscite della russa Vetvei, che continua imperterrita a sviscerare il meglio dell'estremo underground ambient/ritual/industrial di casa propria. Russi sono infatti sia Ogni Videniy, progetto di cui vi abbiamo già parlato, che Six Dead Bulgarians, act i cui esordi su nastro risalgono finanche al 1995: in questa release a quattro mani, rigorosamente confezionata nel classico e pregevole cartoncino a sei ante (nella consueta edizione in CDr professionale, limitata a sole 181 copie numerate a mano), i due nomi collaborano attivamente su registrazioni avvenute durante il passaggio dall'anno lunare 2136 al 2137, segnatamente dal 13 al 14 di febbraio del 2010. L'opera è presentata come "un simbolo di liberazione da tutta la negatività accumulata nell'anno che si conclude e lo sviluppo delle qualità positive nel nuovo anno", come recitano le note interne, e ciò ha inevitabilmente richiesto che il concepimento di queste undici tracce avvenisse proprio durante la fase di passaggio che i festaioli occidentali identificano come 'capodanno'. L'opera in esame affonda le proprie radici nella tradizione Bon (il più antico corpus di insegnamenti originati e diffusi nella regione tibetana) con influenze dal buddismo, e per crearla i due act hanno impiegato strumenti come campane tibetane, percussioni di legno e metallo, sabbia, scacciapensieri, voce e, ovviamente, un adeguato supporto elettronico. Ciò che ne è scaturito è un suono dove la ritualità percussiva, talvolta intensa e penetrante, ma più spesso serpeggiante, si colora di tinte astrali, abbracciando una spiritualità universale strettamente connessa ai dettami delle culture da cui trae ispirazione. Al solito per gli act di casa Vetvei, la qualità del suono si rivela ottima, e nel profondo e imperscrutabile buio cosmico della notte di passaggio all'anno 2137 ogni minimo scampanellio si guadagna il proprio spazio nel flusso ambientale, apportando ciò che serve alla definitiva credibilità di un lavoro certamente non facile da assimilare, ma senza dubbio degno di fare da ideale 'colonna sonora' al momento che ha inteso fissare su dischetto. Ancora un'uscita degna della massima attenzione degli estimatori del genere, per un'etichetta che non sbaglia un colpo.
Author: Dark Room Magazine, Roberto Alessandro Filippozzi
Ogni Videniy : Tajushie, CD-R
Vetvei, V11
Vetvei label is a label from Yaroslavl/Russia and run by Ilchuk Sergey, who is also the man behind Vresnit. The label is specialized in magic orientated music. The artwork of the label is of high quality, created by multi-layered images presented at a six-panel full-colored envelopes. The art is a mix between digital technics, photography and paint-art. It has a high magical character. Ogni Videniy is a duo consisting of Petr Abysov and Alexandr Chulkov. Spring 2009 they recorded they CDR Tajushie, what stands for "Melting". Petr Abysov plays singing bowls, bells, wind chimes and uses his voice. Alexandr Chulkov recorded and mixed these Buddist sounds and subtile he changes these ancient sounds with some effects. Field-recordings of the sea, water and other undefinable sounds are added. The combination of these elements is well-chosen and balanced. A great CDR for people who wants to meditate in an adventurous way.
Author: JKH, Vital Weekly
In questo primo incontro con la Vetvei, particolarissima etichetta fondata da Sergey Ilchuk (attivo musicalmente con l'act Vresnit) nel 2008 a Yaroslavl e votata alla pubblicazione di misteriose formazioni dedite a sonorità orientate verso la drone ambient (con particolare riferimento al naturalismo magico ed alla concentrazione multidimensionale delle forze vitali), facciamo la conoscenza di Ogni Videniy, duo russo con alle spalle un'autoproduzione del 2007 (ristampata due anni dopo dalla stessa Vetvei) ed un recentissimo full-length per la BioSonar^Labirint. "Tajushie" si compone dell'unica traccia omonima, che "...prende il titolo da un mantra del Buddha della medicina e si propone come un lavoro meditativo, diretto all'armonizzazione dei flussi di energia dell'ascoltatore; senza dubbio un delicato gioco di acqua ed aria, la registrazione live del ghiaccio che si scioglie, i suoni delle vibrazioni di una campana tibetana, lo scampanellio ed il canto del vento portano via con un flusso sonoro tutte le tipologie negative di coscienza, donando salute e chiarezza al nostro mondo interiore. Il processo di immersione meditativa dissolve l'ascoltatore e gli consente di fondersi nell'Assoluto Universale...", per citare le note ufficiali, indispensabili per venire introdotti adeguatamente ad un ascolto che deve necessariamente partire da presupposti ben diversi dal mero intrattenimento. L'opera in esame, come ogni altra release targata Vetvei, richiede quindi non soltanto una particolare attenzione (in un ascolto rigorosamente casalingo e solitario), ma anche e soprattutto una certa predisposizione mentale, onde sfruttare il potenziale 'curativo' per lo spirito che il duo intende condividere, in una sorta di rituale interiore da compiersi privatamente. Un suono catartico, ottenuto principalmente tramite registrazioni in presa diretta di suoni naturali e l'utilizzo di diversi tipi di campane, per raggiungere una maggior consapevolezza in congiunzione con forze ed elementi. Un lavoro tanto ambizioso quanto assolutamente credibile e riuscito nei suoi intenti, per coloro i quali hanno saputo apprezzare opere di altrettanto valore spirituale come quelle rilasciate dall'eccezionale Aural Hypnox, label finlandese che - assieme alla stessa Vetvei - meglio rappresenta le elucubrazioni ambiental-rituali applicate al ricongiungimento con le forze naturali ed interiori. Edizione in CDr (limitata a 181 copie numerate a mano) e splendida grafica nella tipica confezione a sei pannelli, come da copione per le uscite dell'etichetta russa, ben attenta a dare anche una chiara impronta visuale al proprio prezioso catalogo.
Author: Dark Room Magazine, Roberto Alessandro Filippozzi
Neznamo : Zavet
Vetvei, V10
NEZNAMO is a project which emerges from russian Federation,having as principal basis the exploration of human's true ego through the development of soundscapes and atmospheres which open channels via uncosnsious currents,as a way to enter into deep states of mind. "Zavet " is the third part of a trilogy concept released by Dmitry N. Shilow,the mastermind behinds NEZNAMO, in which through dense atmospheres you shall be submerged in such enigmatic dimension full of distant soundscapes and eerie passajes with very somber elements thoguh the whole album! A long 31:15 minutes voyage to the center of earth through the well performed use of drone elements bathed with a kind of suggestive and subliminal atmospheres going perfectly arranged with the whole structure of the track. The high impressive use of percussive elements mixed with such field recordings makes of this release one of the most interesting ones by Neznamo. At moments such hypnotic composition seems to transport you to the very primal states of counciousness,due the magickal atmospheres created by Dmitry. Without a Doubt another excelent release by Russian Vetvei recs, also its worth to note this release comes in a special package of full colour six panel envelope!!! for more info just visit Vetvei's page...
Author: PAN.O.RA.MA
Hladna & Vresnit : Kornej Senju Inej
Vetvei, V09
The transmission continues, and even the organic cells of nature mutates one more time, to create the second part of this collaborative release of HLADNA & VRESNIT. This time the suggestive pulsations emerges under almost the same facet as on its first part. Offering you a vast, dense drone ambient structures gathered under such subliminal
forces with a very obscure and vaporous atmosphere. At moments music is a gateway to the worlds of elementals of nature due how each one of the four compositions here ihas been built. The second track including here has some very tribal druming parts such as its spirits opens its portals to coming to underworld. Its corridors opened and the drone passajes emerges to encapture the listener with such shamanic ritualistic soundscapes. Using some field recording ,wind isntruments and metal sounds they have created a very amazing piece having such high connotation due how the music penetrates slowly to your mind, and opens to you channels of perception to a latent magickal world. This kind of music is just perfect to be listened under the use of magickal herbs. Also some spoken voices can be hear at least on track 3. A very meditative piece of ritual musik persented by both artists creating a monumental artistical expression due its magickal connections with nature. The album comes in a six panel cardboard and limited to 181 copies only!! ...so just write Vetvei recs now!!
Author: PAN.O.RA.MA
Hladna & Vresnit : Inej Senju Kornej
Vetvei, V08
Its primal forces awakened from the icy far forest of Russia, emanating all its atavistic forces beyond the nature forces. So a proud to present the release of two of the most enigmatic projects coming from russian federation both of them creating dense and obscure pulsations though the whole three tracks included on this album. The album was recorded under the influence of winter woods of Vepsky Park, and the result was so amazing, because the music itself seems to be a transfigurative organism growing and growing with pass of minutes, at moments the music reminds me to Halo Manash, the Finnish project, but HLADNA and VRESNIT has its own characteristic sound mixed and created specially for this concept release. One of the most important aspects of this album is how osbscure pulsations generates such high states of trance and meditative structures for ritual use. I am very impressed by such suggestive enigmatic pieces of both artists namely, Nikolay Kalmykov (Hladna) and Sergey Ilchuk (Vresnit), so penetrating our sences in a very suggestive way, due to dark dense atmospheres and well created use of singing bowls, and other structures. At the second track you shall hear some strange vocal mantras as if there comes from the trees speaking in strange languages. A ritualistic piece of drone noise ambient highly recommended to all those into obscure mantras dressed with such shamanic pulsations always bringing new elements with this kind of projects!!! The album is limited to 383 copies and the whole album designed by full-color six-panel envelope from Vresnit Art.
Author: PAN.O.RA.MA
Recentemente abbiamo parlato di Vresnit in merito al suo eccellente album di fine 2010 "Seed Solar", ed ora, scavando ancora un po' nel passato del roster dell'interessante Vetvei, segnatamente tornando indietro di un anno, ritroviamo l'act russo (dietro cui si cela Sergey Ilchuk, titolare della stessa label di Yaroslavl) alle prese con la prima parte di un lavoro realizzato in collaborazione col connazionale Nikolay Kalmykov, mente unica dietro al progetto Hladna. Come Vresnit, anche Hladna ha alle spalle una decina di release, sebbene queste siano state rilasciate in un arco di tempo più esteso (si parte dal 2002, contro il 2008 di Sergey), ma se ovviamente la stragrande maggioranza delle uscite del primo recano il marchio Vetvei, per Nikolay quella in esame è la primissima produzione per la label del collega (l'altra, stampata pochi mesi dopo, è la seconda parte di questo stesso progetto, con l'ordine delle tre parole del titolo messo al contrario). Rigorosamente racchiusa nel pregiato cartoncino apribile e stampata in sole 383 copie numerate a mano (elementi che sono un marchio di fabbrica per la Vetvei), l'opera vede i due progetti collaborare attivamente in tutte e tre le tracce incluse, che destano curiosità per le modalità realizzative: le registrazioni sono avvenute in due soli giorni presso un non meglio precisato e remoto 'villaggio Jarogora' nel mese di gennaio, quindi in pieno inverno russo, e ciò ha permesso di catturare field recordings altamente suggestive, intense ed a loro modo uniche, successivamente unite ai suoni generati dai macchinari a disposizione dei due artisti dell'ex-Unione Sovietica. E le sensazioni evocate, degnamente supportate da una produzione di tutto rispetto, sono forti: i 50 minuti del dischetto sono un lento ed inesorabile peregrinare attraverso lande crepuscolari e brumose, desolate, in un cammino verso l'ignoto pregno di inquietudini, fra porte dimensionali varcate con timore e vortici abissali che generano smarrimento, fisico e mentale. Suoni che si perdono fra le nebbie, rumori sinistri, strumenti a fiato ed uno scampanellio che penetra a fondo nelle zone più remote del cervello, incanalando l'energia rituale della ciclicità dell'intera opera. Due entità sonore che, in simbiosi, emanano un flusso ambientale inebriante ed oscuro di enorme forza evocativa, armonizzando al meglio natura e tecnologia in un songwriting d'alto rango: due progetti di grande spessore che hanno molto da offrire ai più selettivi esploratori dei meandri meno ospitali del suono.
Author: Dark Room Magazine, Roberto Alessandro Filippozzi
Vresnit & Kshatriy : TaeT
Vetvei, V07
Again VRESNIT surprises with this amazing release, but now with a cooperation release with another russian project known as KSHATRIY handled by Uak-Kib from St. Petersburg/Moscow. This project has been developing several albums going oriented into drone ambient elements. And VRESNIT is well known by its shamanistic ritual exposition of atmospheres from time ago... So both spirits joined forces to create a vast scenario of drone ritual structures collapsing perfectly to consagrate mother gaia, in all its enormous splendour. This long 48:50 minutes composition has such intesne passages and structures based into drone soundscapes surrounded by suggestive whispers, subliminal spoken mantras and organic atmospheres whcih together generates differents sensation in human aura, as isolation, inner transformation, meditative states. The most impressive element here is how the whole composition involves you with such archaic percussive pasaages and wind instruments floating mysteriously through the whole album. Water falls sounds, past incarnated spirits evoking its proclamation in nature's world, petrified drone patterns and eerie atmospheres complements the whole stuff here,generating a very amazing release worth to check. Shamanic Ritual trance album is what both artists offer us here. Just keep an eye open because a full interview with Sergey the spirit behinds VRESNIT and Vetvei will be done soon to cover all the enigmatic reality behinds this acclaimed russian project. The album comes in 7"EP 6-panel cardboard envelope covered with the signs of Vetvei. Standing in awe of Majesty and experience of true Beauty. Tradition, vibrations for a New Cycle.
Author: PAN.O.RA.MA
Ogni Videniy : Skvozь Temnotu
Vetvei, V06
OGNI VIDENIY (Fires Of Images) is an ambient experimental project created by the shape of Petr Abysov which was born from the ashes of his other post industrial noise project called Six Dead Bulgarians. Now with OGNI VIDENIY, he has traced some parameters floating into a very impressive work of atmospheres, which seems to evolve through simple minimal sounds to diverse soundscapes, penetrating slowly through each one of the 6 compositions generated through "Skvozь Temnotu" (Through Darkness). The whole album tracks are in russian language, and has translations too. So,opening the album is "Visions Of The Source", a minimal ambient composition with such drop water atmopsheres mixed with some dense elements and arrangements which surely will surprise you due how enigmatic the track turns. Then comes "Keepers Of Fires" and the spirits of fires burn high through the forest, with a very interesting piece in which OGNI VIDENIY offer us part of his potential with an ambient track full of desolation and obscure atmopheres, gathered around the whole picture of the track.The next composition is called "Clearing The Wind", and the enigmatic journey continues this time with a call to the spirits of air, with such sutile but effective atmopsheres, bells and field recordings."Sacral Days", is perhaps one of the bes tracks here. The whole track is built into eerie, dense atmopsheres and subliminal passages covered by defragmentation of diverse sounds and the characterized dynamism in which OGNI VEDENIY seems to focus through each one of the tracks. "Internal Hearing" and "Shadows Of Grasses" closes the album, in which everything its transformed through shamanic ritual atmospheres opening so many gateways to explore the obscure mysterious of nature. Its important to note the use of acoustic instrumnets which gives to the album a very interesting touch due how music evolves from time to time. The Release is presented in six-panel fullcolour envelope, with the always amazing visual art by Vresnit!!
Author: PAN.O.RA.MA
Vresnit : Vjuga.Ljet.Duj.
Vetvei, V05
Vresnit present a long mysterious voyage to such ancestral primordial tribes which rules the desolated territories in earth thoudsand years ago, with an impressive solo piece track of 41:55 minutes. The impressinism when hearing this album was simply amazing, it generates in oneself a kind of retro atavism in which all structures of mind seems to devour themselves to create a pictoric idea of how such tribes worships its own gods, the nature open so many path of such search of knowledge. Drone ritual spaces crawling within the whole composition with intense moments and well performed use of flute sounds and hypnotizing acoustic analog atmospheres, also the use of percussive tunes are enough elements worth to expore,due how in a sutile form the whole composition if filed with dynamism and structures which appears and start to grows slowly with the pass of minutes. Some spoken voices emerges as primal evocations to complement the perfect drone ambient structures here. All is integrating in a solid structure with such dynamism and ritualistic elements which makes of VRESNIT, one of the best projects coming from russian federation. The release comes in 8-sided red paperboard booklet + A5 insert. 19 copies include 4 colored A5 inserts. And strictly limited to 181 copies only.
Author: PAN.O.RA.MA
That’s the kind of music I was calling for and I needed and which I finally discovered. It is completely soaked with the spirit of near-to primordial tribes, when nature was the god and all the emanations of natural power were worshipped, when people were more free in their expression and less bound by conventions and moral principles dictated by contemporary society. It is the time of spirituality and the abilities not only to watch, but to see. And it is wonderful that there are people who made an attempt to create the atmosphere and let us dive into this artificial world of natural past. Vresnit is a band coming from Russia, formed in 2008, and as bands of the kind coming from the land of snow and wood are most of the time pretty deep and definitely have many distinctive features, mystery being one of them, it didn't get far away from all those particular features that form this unique sound. CD was issued by Vetvei, Russian label aiming at the search of archetypes manifestations within the near-musical realm, close to ambient, drone, ritual and folk. Although generally the releases are different, I had quite similar feelings and even sensations when I listened to certain ambient tracks of The Blood of the Black Owl – A Feral Spirit, reviewed some issues ago. The great idea is 41 minute long track which is not interrupted by pauses that usually ruin all the atmosphere of ambient album. Ambient music has to flow and develop throughout the album, change directions maybe, but never be interrupted in such a violent way as switching from track to track. The composition starts with silent, almost unheard sounds which gradually, step by step become more solid, accompanied with various elements. If compared to something, it may remind entering a dark cold northern forest in the fog, having a feeling that it watches you and the spirits that inhabit the woods surround you and observe with interest. You slowly get deeper and deeper to a sacred place, some altar for a ritual, accompanied by the soundscapes constructed from improvisation on wind instrument and straight beat performed on a ritual drum. Meanwhile the background becomes more and more intense and eventually exchanges the secondary role on the one of primary kind. And then it reveals many elements as if they were hidden in the fog and now come out of the dark – crackles, ravens cries, whistles, steps. And the culmination may be considered the part when we eventually hear the lyrics narrated by two voices that appear and then disappear, travel from one part of your mind to another one and then back, hypnotizing and putting you in a state when you get out of the world of your reality and are transferred to the world of your irreality. In fact it creates quite terrific atmosphere of something special and frightening approaching, but you cannot move and have nothing else but stand and face the gloom that comes into your face, as in a nightmare. Or maybe there is nothing out there in the dark. And it is just your imagination plays the tricks. Probably and according to the package, red, made of hard paper with symbols looking like the ones sketched in cave, the album contains four “stages” represented by 4 animals: an eagle - immortality, liberation of the soul, a dear - a symbol of cyclic rebirth and at the same time a guide to underworld, and other two seem to look like wolves, enemies and evil, a smaller and a larger ones, which, when the paper is unfolded, seem to be confronting each other. This release makes me think much to Northern nations of far east of Eurasia, which live connected to their ancestors and in the world filled with spirits and their own gods, legends, stories and traditions, celebrations and rituals, the world which may be much more rich than ours in fact.Author: Heathen Harvest
In my opinion Vjuga.Ljet.Duj may be considered as one of the best achievements of moulding the subconscious into a sound shape. Before listening to this one piece CD (duration: 41.55 minutes), you'd better not prepare yourself for a smooth and easy ambient piece. Contrary,you'd better expect a slightly unnerving, dark ambient, ritual drone piece that mainly consists of earthly sounds that drag you straight into an unearthly world of dark dreams with an archetypical quality. If Carl Gustav Jung and Sigmund Freud were musicians, this might be their sound at some stage of their carreer. Now, would you please lie down on that couch, close your eyes and press the button that says 'Play'? The track starts off relatively innocent with a five minutes' lenght muffled and strict (like a heartbeat) percussion beat , accompanied by the sound of a now and then distorted flute. After some five minutes some other elements shift into the over all sound picture, while the beat is slowly drifting away. The flute is now accompanied by the sounds of a metallic background noise (as if metallic percussion is extremely delayed in time, and, consequenlty, has gotten another role: ambient sound) and some vaguely screeching bird like sounds, while the metallic sound is gaining volume. Meanwhile something is being scratched. Very slowly the sound structure is shifting, while the atmosphere is getting more dense and nightmarish. As if there's no escape from this subconscious trip. The metallic ambient sound is gaining volume and the flute is shifting to the background. After about 16 minutes human voices enter the sound picture. Unfortunately you're not able to understand the words. Real time metal sounds enter the sound picture accompanied by some distant deep rumbling, while the flute and slow metallic ambient sounds are still present. After some 37 minutes a very simple stringlike hint of a melody announces the nearing end of the track, again accompanied by some muffled percussion sounds. The track is fading out. You may open your eyes again. Just for a while the world seems so empty and trivial. Perhaps you'll consider to lie back on that couch and push the 'Play' button again, instead of pushing 'Eject'. You may open your eyes again. Just for a while the world seems so empty and trivial. Perhaps you'll consider to lie back on that couch and push the 'Play' button again, instead of pushing 'Eject'.Author: Gothronic
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum : Bereg Teploj Vesny
Vetvei, V03
Since 2004, shamanic Russian composer, Evgeniy Savenko, has been creating fever-dream soundtracks under the guise of Lunar Abyss Deus Organum(also known as L.A.D.O.). This project's stated intent is to "glorify the deep forces of nature and natural life in all of it's manifestations", with a further interest in early pagan customs, Indo-European Vedic cosmogony and "ritualistic traditions of northern heathens". In live performance, most often with a partner, Savenko creates compositions that ebb and flow with the sound of voices, bells, percussives, traditional flutes and acoustic instruments, but through brilliant manipulation of the improvised source material, he is able to forge these churning, fluxing abysses of sound. Using all manner of sonic debris, he drones his way through a single nearly hour-long composition on this album, "Bereg Teploj Vesny", a limited edition cdr release on the Vetvei label in Russia. Vetvei specializes in experimental music releases of "nature inspired art as seen through the Russian mentality". This correlation to romanticism, embodying the picturesque qualities of nature through sound, also extends to their graphics and packaging.They have a nice organic style(the "Vetvei style"?) of hand-painting their covers and the cdr's. This one comes in cardboard packaging with three photo inserts and the cover is decorated with stenciled paintings. The album consists of fragments from a live performance at the open-air festival called the Systo Togethering. This is the first of a two-piece opus, titled "Spring Shores", which incorporates the best from both Savenko's performances at Systo in 2006 and '07. Savenko, who hails from St. Petersburg, is expert at weaving disparate sounds together into an abstract expressionistic musical statement. He uses loops, vinyl records, field recordings, acoustic instruments and voices to create a dynamic soundscape that never loses interest for the listener. One thing I've noticed about the Russian experimental scene is how many of the artists seem to be influenced by film music. Savenko is no different, by instinct if not design, this composition contains dramatic qualities characteristic of cinematic tradition. But there is also an element here of psych-folk sound, similar to what I've heard coming out of Finland, particularly during the passages that use vocals. "Bereg Teploj Vesny" presents a visionary sonic statement that seems both ancient and new. At times the soundtrack is alien, other times it seems very pastoral, you are on Jupiter at one moment and the next you're in a lush field with birds flying past, and it all folds into and out of itself, revealing new layers and a deeper resonance on each listen. Thus, a recording like this doesn't disclose it's secrets at first but always becomes something new when listened to again... and again.
Author: Heathen Harvest
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum is the project of Evgeny Savenko and is also known under the monikers Lunar Abyss and Lunar Abyss Quartet, among other variations. This album is released on the new Russian label Vetvei. The first thing that is noticeable is the beautiful handmade cardboard packaging, together with three inserts. I did however hard to try real hard to find and then try to read which band made the music and the name of the album, since from my copy it was extremely hard to read. Also, "Bereg Teploj Vesny" is the first in a two part series; the second will be titled "Spring shores". The music is one long track of around 52 minutes of music. We move from a dark underworld to a more dark fantasy setting. The music feels very organic and has a lot of different sounds and moods. 52 minutes is quite long, but the album manages to be interesting all the way through, since "Bereg Teploj Vesny" is also a very visceral experience. A good release and one with a lot of texture. The beautiful packaging makes this release complete and a must-have for ambient connoisseurs. Iam really looking forward to "Spring shores"!Author: Gothronic
Vresnit: Kalen Ven
Vetvei, V01
VRESNIT emerges again, this time with its second album. Offering us a long 33:33 minutes track, in which the archaic ritualistic atmospheres converges in its own symbolism, creating a vast ambient composition with such eerie passajes, cthonic structures and subliminal atavisms evoking pure sensitive spirits though this long piece. At moments you seems to floats through such dense drone soundscapes and profound eerie atmospheres as if you were found in midle of jungle and elemental spirits calls you to its own worlds.This project is one of the best I have heard through the ambient ritual scene. Its raw, dense, obscure, it gathers all the parameters we search in an ambient ritual project! Dark pulsations carries you slowly to such cthonic underground regions of your subconscious, being primal and dark. Without a doubt "Kalen Ven" is one of such releases which you will never forget! As the whole Vetvei releases this one comes in a especial package, this time - triple brown cardboard incl. 4 cards. Lets just immerse yourself though the Cthonic corridors and primal dakness evoked by such ritual ambient project VRESNIT!
Author: PAN.O.RA.MA
Vresnit intrigues me in more ways then I first thought possible. Firstly the very album is extremely rich in both character and style with its handmade cover and a minimalistic rune etched like a seal on a dreamlike portal. Inside the cardboard cover are some really nice pictures of branches, simple but extremely effective in creating the right feeling. All put together make a great introduction to the music lurking inside this work of art. Kalen Ven is a piece of ether distilled into pure music. The song brings something primeval to life, a sensation that lingers on in the back of ones mind a long time after the song fades away. The drums in this ambient serenity is what gives this creation a certain pulse, like a lifeblood that pumps on through the night. After listening to this song in a variety of settings such as the subway, the nebular landscapes of northern Scandinavia and my darkened room bathing in candlelight I get the feeling that this is more then just atmosphere. It is hard to describe what this song really projects inside ones hollow mind but the best expression I have for it is a chthonic feeling of dank smelly caves. The songs natural evolution drags on and takes the listener on a long journey through misty landscapes, the mood constantly building up towards a final tangible echo of the past. Kalen Ven is something unique, its nigh impossible to put down with words the unspeakable emotion it produced inside this brooding husk. It would be like a bumblebee describing its view on life to a newt; it is on such a vastly different plane that words have little to no meaning. When the flutelike sounds start piping in the background and the otherworldly drumming increases in pace the one thing that enters my mind is Azathoth. When Lovecraft described the piping and drumming of the outer gods that keep the demon sultan pacified this might have been quite what he imagined. Vresnit combines the simplicity of minimal ambient structures with simple yet effective percussion and it just becomes so right. Usually long tracks of minimal ambient tend to have an affinity for getting bland, but in this case the song just lingers in the back of your mind and really enhances the feelings that the song almost instantly set. When the songs gentle whispers fade away I am left stunned for a moment, tranquil yet intrigued. Kalen Ven is a mighty album and a even more intriguing song. This is something that anyone into chthonic drones should not miss. The otherworldly aspects of this album is extremely strong and the atmosphere thick. For meditation or relaxation this is pure gold but I guess it could relieve you on your way through the machine searching for a deeper meaning to life. There is something deep lurking inside that really answer to Kalen Ven, perhaps not in everyone but then again not everyone is as primal as me..Author: Heathen Harvest
Drifting into dream state with archaic drones caused by sound bowls or something like that. Drowned reverb stretches slowly to fill the atmosphere. A ritualistic humming surrounds you on the bare Nordic fields. Cold glacial ambient inspired by natural symbolism. An enchanting ritual proceeds. Kalen Ven is the second release by Russian act Vresnit and the first for the new Vetvei label. Vresnit makes pagan inspired ambient in the vein of Halo manash. There is one ritual preformed on this release that takes a bit more than thirty minutes. The atmosphere is very relaxed and the music minimal with just some hand percussion, voice and small flutes. Archaic droning of a pagan ritual. Shimmering acoustic sounds that works on the unconsciousness. Kalen Ven comes in a beautiful brown handmade triple cardboard package with pictures of branches. This really looks very good and fits perfectly to the atmosphere of the music. I absolutely like it when people take care of the artwork, it make a release more complete and precious.Author: Gothronic
Vresnit : Tunvet
Vegvisir music, 008
When talking about creativity and intense magickal development we must mention this Russian project known as VRESNIT, which has been polluting the world with all of its interesting releases, all of them with such hypnotic elements which encaptures the listener though a ritual shamanic voyage, due how the music is developed. So, this time through "Zavet" an album which fill my spectatives in a proper way, coz through the solo track of this release you shall explore the intense drone ambient atmospheres and eerie elements created here. At moments its as if a natural vortex of energy is open ready to devour and transport yourself to another level of existence. Through the whole album the well executed use of floating wind instruments and such archaic persussive sounds are gathered to offer you something more than just an album,but a chtonic voyage to the labyrinths of nature in all its forms, showing you strange symbols and wooden totems. A perfect equilibrium when hearing the metal gongs and diverse ritual instruments mutating all the time,going around with such dense drone atmopsheres. The natural development in "Tunvet" is the path of nature with its own mysteries and enigmatic elements ready to be explored by yourself. Again VRESNIT surprise me a lot with such kind of ritualistic music, always offering intense and in deep moments from start to finish. The album comes in a special package, having six panel digi file with archaic visuals reprsenting just the visual side of what you shall experience when hearing the ritual mantras generated at "Tunvet".
Author: PAN.O.RA.MA
Vresnit : Stalist Lik Sveta
Kerpg XVI
Vresnit 2008 release through Kerpg is a one-song affair, clocking in at 52 minutes of sound. Vresnit is the product of Sergey Ilchuk (Vagranok, Nrodum, Voy and KERPG label). Although initially released through Kerpg, Vresnit now finds a home with the Vetvei label in Russia. While Mr. Ilchuk is a member of various incarnations, here he combines elements of industrial, drone and noise. Yet somehow through everything, it still seems organic and natural. Showing both sides of electronic and homemade somehow on this disc makes sense. From the first subtle murmur, to the last noisy effect, Stalist Lik Sveta is a netherworld of supernatural sounds. The clever combination of desolate, industrial reverberation with ghostly, rattling ambient touches gives a grand and lofty feel to the piece. Static rumbles and soars, while persistent distant pounding and chilling ambience bring the composition together as one. Sounds twist and divide into each other. Nearing vibrations ebb and flow closer, crescendo to a din, then culminate to quiet. A discord that crawls, levitates and finally clatters, leaving the listener spent. If ever there was a music composition so deserving of headphones this may very well be the poster child. What it very well may be is a metallic, howling soundtrack to our own limitations and imaginations. Encompassing the feeling of industrial and natural extends to the presentation also. Just a handmade cardboard cutout folder with 2 photographs decorates the inner and outer sleeve of the release. Throughout the listener gets the feeling that there are many sides to Vresnit. Certainly many sides yet to come. Whether within this band or any of the other he is involved in. A sense of combining the complexities of what is man made to what is already found in nature and the struggle found between the two is heard throughout. As with a lot of material that is released through small labels there is a feeling that this should be heard on a larger scale. Something we already know, that the masses is waiting for, but not expecting, something to make them think. How long will it be before the mainstream music industry stops trying to sell us what they think is “profitable product” to what the listener truly wants to hear? We can only hope that through releases like this, and many others like it, that this will be apparent sooner than later
Author: Heathen Harvest