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Vidna Obmana
Obmana has these insights to offer. "The Surreal Sanctuary is the first chapter of a double album work in which I hope to shed light on my fascination for the avant-garde and more experimental sound design. Both parts are a melange of my experiences as a participating artist in my latest series of collaborations with an electric guitarist, a jazz musician and an organist. Apart from my previous and rhythm-orientated work on Crossing the Trail, The Surreal Sanctuary and its counterpart The Contemporary Nocturne (to be released on Hypnos in late 2000) reach again for a very minimal and purely atmospheric approach to sound. Utilizing the recycling method I've been recently using in collaborative mode got me to access a particular mood and atmosphere which translates my fascination for this genre in sound but also gives me the perfect ability to moderate my inspiration to an unique level of blending and creating harmonies. Both albums resent this method and incorporate new elements, varying from electric guitar, double ass, and overtone signing to the rare overtone flute'Fujaro'. To accomplish my Project it was a fine opportunity to score this work over two separate albums, increasing the space of time to a maximum in which I could develop the design according to my specific ideas and at the right pace. Perhaps while the work requires more energy and attention to absorb, I sincerely hope this collection of abstract and soothing collage music truly contains an equally calm and introspective atmosphere to repose with." --Vidna Obmana, Jan. 2000 For the most part, The Surreal Sanctuary depicts music and Images in rhythmless suspension, as Obmana lavishly paints poignant, loomIng Images with his arsenal of digital electronics. Vidna Obmana drinks deep of these delicate platitudes in a music as unpretentious as it is lovingly constructed. Highly recommended. Review by Ben Kettlewell information: |
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Comprised
of seven songs ranging from four minutes to eighteen minutes, The Surreal
Sanctuary is the Obmana's first solo work since 'Crossing the Trail'.
The new album is an intoxicating blend of ethno-ambient musicality and
deep space ambience, which is actually the first half of a double-album
project, scheduled to be completed with the Iate-2000 release on Hypnos
of 'The Contemporary Nocturne'. Mike Griffin from Hypnos offers these
comments; "With contributions from Steve Roach (electric guitar atmospheres),
Jim Cole (overtone singing and tamboura) and Joris De Backer (double bass),
'The Surreal Sanctuary' represents another step in the process of artistic
maturation for Vidna Obmana, as commenced with his landmark works 'The
River of Appearance' and 'Crossing the Trail'."