August 15, 2010: Last week, two very nice reviews of were published:

1. Wonderful Wooden Reasons … quoting:

“I love this sort of vintage sci-fi soundworld that old tech just oozes so well and couple with some truly delightful and restrained musicianship this album is an absolute dream.”

The full review is here, near the bottom of the page.

2. Massimo Ricci’s Temporary Fault. This is actually a review of all three recent Viosac releases. I really appreciated his serious and considered approach. Quoting:

“Hey you, people who spent a fortune for NWW’s Chance Meeting On A Dissecting Table: there’s more attractive substance herein.”

The review is here.

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May 21, 2010: This is a Google Translate interpretation of Kulturterrorismus‘ review of Dawning Luminosity:

Into three “acts” VioSac celebrates “Dawning Luminosity” a world full of sadness and determination that is reminiscent only in terms of sound (analog instrumentation) to previous works and otherwise a return or further disclosed to deep drones, which certainly new listeners layers opens up, if this performance is no “flash in the pan is.

Actually, there should be no problem to find a suitable label for VioSac, but somehow seems the Canadians on high-quality products (made in press) abzufahren & self-distribution, probably to keep all the reins in his hands (to be).

Content immerses the artist in a mysterious matter that is derived from the images, between the Middle Ages and a modern winter moves and the horned lark is dedicated, which somehow does not fit in the majors overall context “Understand, and be free!”, But in the end the mass of lunatics VioSac shows what this project became known. If you are looking madness comes to actually VioSac not over – point!

In contrast to the previously very experimental ideas VioSac delivers on “Dawning Luminosity from” a simple, almost monotonous soundscapes, which can be described best with minimalist drones that have a lot of atmosphere but also monotony and quickly burn in my memory “. Persons who wish Draught & hypnosis also should approve these three overly long tracks on “Dawning Luminosity” and dive in head relaxing cinema. Especially like the very clear structures like the individual songs that never make the music themselves, but their effect in the foreground, so the Konsumentenschaft here expecting a phenomenal listening experience, which gives freedom of thought, when one enters it.

All the individuals, which was previously too VioSac rather queer and turned to with “Dawning Luminosity” risk a new attempt, the result of the lighter (sound should) succeed fare! VioSac real fans should, however, a little missing from the experimental spirit of bygone days, hopefully on future albums is growing again!

Conclusion:

VioSac revealed with “Dawning Luminosity” an almost catchy release, the ambient & drone fetishists necessarily have to call their own, however VioSac followers of earlier days could be a little disappointed. Although the absolute change my recommendation, based on the high (almost overwhelming) expression of the plays, which invite to a beautiful mind movie that, under the motto “Understand, and be free!” Runs out!

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May 19, 2010: Dawning LuminosityA nice little review of Dawning Luminosity was published today in the Vital Weekly newsletter. Quoted here:

VIOLENCE AND THE SACRED PERFORMING AS VIOSAC – DAWING LUMINOSITY (CD by VioSac)
Back in Vital Weekly 656 we were re-introduced to Violence And The Sacred performing as Viosac, the new name of what was once known as just Violence And The Sacred. Still I have no idea why they hold on to the addition ‘Performing As Viosac’, and not just simply return to the old name. ‘Rusty Pile’ wasn’t a convincing come-back album I thought. Perhaps a bit too much of an unedited jam-session. The CD after that ‘You Are PLanning To Enjoy The Apocalypse’ wasn’t received here. The new work ‘Dawing Luminosity’ is however a great work. Viosac move into a more ambient territory here, which not necessarily adds much to the world of ambient and drones, but the quality is great. Its one piece in three parts and I’m told its all analogue synthesizers and analogue processing. Very slow moves around here, this an almost perfect piece of surround sound, ambient in the very most true sense of the word. An excellent disc of some heavenly music. As said, it doesn’t add much, if anything at all, to what we already know about this kind of music, but its very rare that it unfolds into such a beauty. (FdW)

The original context will be here in a day or two. It is also here, near the middle of the page.

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Marcb 30, 2010: Seven months is far too long between posts. Viosac has been busy and not busy, completely dedicated to music and thoroughly distracted, alive with a unique and fresh vigour and on the verge of death.

Under those circumstances an improbable and atypical CD has been released. I’ve been using the phrase Dawning Luminosity for a personal blog I keep, but is a very appropriate title for this new CD, describing as it does: death, rebirth, and the cycling and closing a very old ellipsis.

Dawning Luminosity

The music is best described as ambient drone, with an emphasis on stasis and insistence. A single 53 minute piece. Instrumentation is entirely a Moog Voyager OS, modified with a Vermona Retroverb and a Roland SBF-325. The mix was post-processed through two Tascam 32 half tracks: Frippertronicy as best I can. As with Rusty Pile and You are planning to enjoy the apocalypse, the sound remained in analogue form until mastering.

We have not done music quite like this before …

Excerpts are available here and here. Dawning Luminosity can be purchased here.

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August 29, 2009: Once again a review from kulturterrorismus, this time of You are planning to enjoy the apocalypse. I am impressed with their enthusiasm … translation below, non-human-generated, hence pretty much useless, but it does convey some meaning, I believe. Apologies to the author. I really must learn some more languages.

Though I work with computers, easily 12 hours a day, more or less, I strongly believe they will never be able to successfully parody human thinking.

After the impressive return “Rusty Pile” (2008), which appear after 16th years in the sinking, VioSac with “You are planning to enjoy the apocalypse” offer its second work that gets threatening Apocalypse mood into domestic living rooms.

Did where the comeback yet alone find through Graham Stewart creation, the participants Ted Wheeler (guitar, Synthesizer), St. Deborah (song), John Whyte (design), Maureen Paxton (Kollagen) helped in “You are planning to enjoy the apocalypse” & Scott Kerr (?) with by what means VioSac “recaptures” a few the charm of past days, where one was collective another.

To approach contents light offered this publication the possibility the apocalypse and to be sure in the format of a “happening” in chip, Cola & beer by what means side-effect such as for example the loss of the own life stay away. Is named, who would like the end of the world antesten of the sofa out of already once, “You are planning to enjoy the apocalypse” of VioSac should consume, around which perhaps impending end of the world test on. Whom was “Rusty Pile” thematic too confused, would be allowed to accept this Release with its clear boundaries, or?

Analogous sound scenery determine the musical general view on “You are planning to enjoy the apocalypse”, which up to gloomily earth moving atmospherically tend of easily futuristically rhythmic and demand the complete attention of the interested listener community, which loses otherwise definitively the red path of this publication. He, who demands of publications a high change wealth, gets offered this event here and not too tightly why the majority of the world population might be overcharged with “You are planning to enjoy the apocalypse”. To the Akzentuierung, Graham Stewart in that 8 to hearing scattered played trickily most varied tone & Sprachsamples on, which perfect the chaos. To notice in would be in this context, that “You are planning to enjoy the apocalypse” substantially more structured out of the loudspeakers sounded than be predecessor “Rusty Pile” in order to not to mediate the impression of the inaudibility.

Individuen which artistic freedom wish, that opposes each conventions, a light gets offered with this second Oeuvre after the resurrection of VioSac certainly, hung would have to wind itself the remainder in the consumption before “pains” why the designation of an explicit allude tip falls.

These emotionally loaded sound scenery persons, whom prefer the free-thinking variant of the music, which far away all “underground normality” moves, must themselves on “You are planning to enjoy the apocalypse” of VioSac “pure pull” to experience around the feeling of the total personality – my absolute recommendation if one would like to drop himself of the remainder of the scenery!

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