Archive for August 2009

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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August 27, 2009: I noticed today that a review of Rusty Pile was published in the German online industrial-noise-style webzine kulturterrorismus. Sadly I don’t know German, but the review sounds positive from the Internet-generated-non-human translation below. John Whyte is speaking to a German-English-fluent-friend to have a translation done. (Today must be joining-words-together-day.) Fatigue is setting in.

Thanks to the kind folks at kulturterrorismus … and apologies for this translation.

What must an art project such as VioSac (Violence and the Sacred performing ace VioSac) move after 16th years in the sinking in addition to produce new album with “Rusty Pile”? A question for what the answers keep a lookout follows how: “No Label! No motivation! etc. etc.,! why the return put on in own achievement “Rusty Pile” the more amazes, represents the one futuristic maximum performance.

Since the foundation in 1985 as collective, around as tied on for a Chris & Cosey concert to serve, developed VioSac to the a man project of Graham Stewart that with the receptions to “Rusty Pile” in 2007 the “motors” of VioSac newly started.

In substance the first sign of life offered did not extend insanity pure after many years, that by basalt dream up to determinations such as “two persons the same eyes such as you”. To that, the Canadians “paved” yet lines of William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) on in order to complete the insanity. He, who appreciates chaotic conditions in the thematic area, does not pass by at “Rusty Pile” of VioSac!

Graham Stewart reveals on the 8 shorter like longer sound documents a minimalistische such as experimental consolidation of the styles Noise, Industrial and field reception which it presents especially reservedly and/or less krachig. In the special, “Rusty Pile” bribes through the homogeneous mixture out of synthetic components & traces of real instruments such as cello, bass, guitar & gong Tibetan by what means the Gesamtsound sounds very organically how complexly, although the participant serves exclusively with minimalistischen song structures. Altogether everyone move played trickily on the Oeuvre in the Midtempobereich, that between “easier” Rhythmik & atmosphere deep swing and to no time really in trip come, honor give it the impression a futuristic meditation to its Graham Stewart related to the Akzentuierung most different Language & Tonsamples such as a singing Chinese, old VioSac material, air sounds etc.:, which provide altogether for a high change wealth & against recognition value of the single Kunstcollagen on “Rusty Pile”.

Who Brachialität or brutality of a work expected “Rusty Pile” can forget for itself, would be allowed to please on the other hand fans of radio play out of sounds this opus, which shows no real allude tip based on its extreme homogeneity, why definitively counts: “Love it or hate it!”.

Result:

Freaks, that the special seek appreciate how, should convince himself this gelungene such as futuristic return “Rusty Pile” of VioSac out of Noise, Industrial & field reception do not escape let, which through compactness, independence & Abgedrehtheit – my absolute recommendation!

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August 20th, 2009: You are planning to enjoy the apocalypse has been out for two months now. I’ve sent over 200 copies to friends, radio stations, reviewers. I’m pleased with the response to date, which has been faster and more enthusiastic than with Rusty Pile. It has received quite a bit of airplay, particular in Montreal and Australia, and on a scattering of Canadian and American stations. Three reviews have appeared:

I particularly enjoyed Disagreement.net’s charming characterization of us as “elderly”. I suppose it’s true in a sense.

I keep thinking about where to go next with this and am torn between pushing the music toward greater formal experimentation or producing something more gentle and beautiful. The two aren’t mutually exclusive, of course. It feels like a conscious choice. I don’t really follow an intense inspiration. Much of the music stems from emotional states, but is tempered by deliberate extra-musical decisions about how it should sound. We’ll see …

A friend recently said that the couple of months after a CD is released are always hard because of the lag between the completion of your creative output and any reaction that might arise to it. It kind of goes out into a non-responsive vacuum. Given that, these two months have treated me well.

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