Jeremy Bible & Jason Henry

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5...according to our Ant on Wed 27 Apr, 2011.

Another gorgeously packaged LP from Infraction, presented on on white vinyl in gatefold sleeve with large obi-strip. Minutes in and I'm well in the zone, like being submerged in a submarine in the arctic while hearing smothered distant voices and ice cracking. Within the headphones I can dwell effortlessly in this soundworld where things shift slowly at times and other more unexpected strange sounds enter in and out of the mix. With a combination of crafty sound design techniques and manipulated piano tones the duo make the creation of this environment sound effortless. I often get the feeling of floating in deep sea while millions of bubbles rush past to break to the surface. Obviously everyone's ride will probably be different which is what is so appealing about these acousmatic sounds. The textures are so vibrant and rich they are very almost tangible like I could reach out and squish the plankton. Both ghostly and sublime this is an essential addition to your Infraction collection. Two lengthy pieces split in two parts over each side, both of them are gonna take you places.

"Two lengthy, sonorous tracks with looming, viscous currents offset by a seductive parade of pattering detail. Fluttering piano notes pierce shifting planes of texture, catspaws of white noise skip across the swell, and Echoplexed flurries float, like distant birdsong, back and forth across the threshold of audibility. Vryashn reveals a perfect balance between fluidity and architecture before disappearing into a haze of chiming bells." - The Wire "Here be the sad sounds of drowning. This Ohio-based pair has quietly amassed an intriguing catalogue of digitally treated dronemusic and manipulated field recordings, with Vryashn being maybe the best so far, oozing with a gorgeous subaquatic melancholia. Aside from all of their sound design tricks, the piano is the central instrument on Vryashn with its notes stretched and elongated into sinewy tones. When wrapped into the slow-motion whirlpool of oceanic reverb and and cyclical drone construction, the brooding notes of the piano sound as if they are the last notes being played by some madman trapped on the ship slowly sinking into the depths of the Black Sea. Tactile bits of organic scrapes and cracklings sweep across the stereo field and dissolve into the ever deeper and blacker void of the waters below. Like Gavin Bryars' similar opus on oceanic collapse, The Sinking Of The Titanic, there is a sublime beauty to these sinking sounds. Recommended, for sure!" - aquariusrecords.org

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