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DEISON / K.K.NULL - Yugen

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Silentes / St.An.Da - 1916 Release Year: 2019 Note: YUGEN, the second collab album by praised Italian DEISON with Japan legend KK NULL, is an exciting, pure electronic "black hole" journey with lots of weird synthetic sounds, restless and endlessly morphing, sometimes moving in ambient industrial areas but never standing still, you may find glimpses of PAN SONIC, BAD SECTOR, etc. in this electro swampland.. somehow between twisted break beat industrial and apocalyptic ambience... lim. 200 Price (incl. 19% VAT): €12.00 More Info Ten years after their first collaboration (“Into”, Silentes, 2009) KK Null and Deison are back together with “Yugen”*, a new work exploring darkness and controlled chaos thru deep and dense sounds. Pulsating and fractured electronics are mixed with an eerie atmosphere of clunks, broken tribal drums and hovering electronic tones. https://deison.bandcamp.com/album/yugen "Both KK Null and Deison are musicians who love to collaborate, either in person or through the exchange of sound files. I would think this is an example of the latter, as for Null it says recorded at 'Prima Natura Studio Japan' and Deison at '1st Floor Studio Italy'. He takes credit for 'field recordings, sound processing' and Null for 'electronics, noise'. I can't say anything sensible about how this worked out. Did Deison process also sound supplied by Null, or vice versa, perhaps? Or is a question of overlaying independently created sound work and see what dialogue can be formed? As said, I don't have the answer to this question. Both men are known, well perhaps to some, for their more radical sonic enterprises (although Null more than Deison), to avoid the word 'noise' (as a genre, not as an instrument). While the music here isn't necessarily very quiet, it is also not the loudest and we see both gentlemen venture into the world of rhythm. Not techno-based, but rather minimalist beat stuff, inspired by the work of Pan Sonic. Interesting enough one could say the same thing about some of the more noisy outings on this release as well. A piece such as 'Nervi Scoperti' has some repeating sounds from a piece of vinyl that got stuck and along with that comes a bit warped electronics. Sometimes the two dwell upon a more ambient industrial/drone soundscape, thus creating a varied dish of musical interests. It is a release to play with some considerable volume, as I found out, as it will you give a slightly more presence of the music and it all shines a bit more. This is a collaboration that turned out to be great!" [FdW/Vital Weekly]