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cat-nr: verazität: 057, release date: February 2007, ltd.-edition: 60, mp3 
"SubDialogue is all about drones. Sometimes they are lovely and melodic, and more often they are dissonant and grungey. There are rhythms and cut-up patterns, shredded static sounds, muffled voices, and lots of drones, drones, drones. The production quality here is not pristine, but very intentional.. Things sound the way they do for a reason. In fact, this release is a culmination of sorts of sound experiments performed for many years by Mystified. It offers a set of psychedelic pieces trippy even for those stone cold sober. Artwork by Mark Jondahl" | |
While doing so many small things around here, I played 'Sub Dialogue' by Mystified twice in a row. Perhaps I was not entirely convinced what I heard, or some such reason. Or perhaps I wanted to double check things. Mystified belong to the sort of musicians who play music as a hobby. Switch on the machines, create some music through sound manipulation and see who is going to release it. No plan, no grandiose schematic to change the world of music. Just do whatever needs to be done. Nothing wrong with that. But on this end, the reviewer's end, things aren't that easy. First of all there are so many things by one and the same artist that it's hard to see what is going on and secondly, for some of the people goes, heard one, heard all. Actually I do like Mystified low resolution sampling ambient industrial wall paper. Not a lot, but it's nice and it reminds me of say City of Worms or some early Hands To, and 'Subdialogue' is no different. No development and interchangeable. Its something you hear and go 'oh nice', but you wouldn't necessarily play it again (unless of course you are reviewer). by frans de waard @ vital weekly Thomas Park, the sole member of MYSTIFIED has been involved in the electronic/experimental fields for so many years and his constant efforts and hard work experimenting with sounds, give as result the release of so many releases, all of them having important connotations, due the maximum level of sounds generated here. Mostly of them focusing into ambient drone structures with defined repetitive patterns, which melds perfectly. Thomas Park is one of such artists who through each album transform all subtle elements into a visual reality which must be experienced by all those who get his albums. with “sub dialogue” the structures are kept and the essence of MYSTIFIED is submerged more into an extensive charismatic expressionism, always offering interesting patterns in the way as the whole 10 tracks are developed here. To work “subdialogue” path is to penetrate in a dry, arid soil and to discover, wither flowers which slowly starts to open showing you to establish a contact with the most hidden organisms….so, is the perfect way to describe “sub dialogue” an album who offers you such nectars through drone organisms manipulated to generate ambient structures. At moments the whole compositions are so hallucinating because they are created through dissonant, improvisational sounds textural waves and tonal currents creating tensions that swell and drain and at moments as on “Steams” track you can hear some spoken voices surrounding the complete track. In a track as “magic” the drone vibrations seems to be elaborated with an impressive dedication because it gives you a sensation to entering to a psychedelic voyage, a deep trance through such repetitive sounds. In other tracks there are rhythmic patterns, rigid static sounds, always surrounded by drones and such eerie scenarios dressed under abstract sonic elements, which are the main point when exploring this release. In general the album contains such high moments in which you must develop more and more in order to understand the whole concept behind a release as “sub dialogue”. This album is a work and long process of improvisational material which was gathered by Thomas though many years. And now has finally released by Verato Project recs. The CDr includes an abstract colored cover. This is one of such releases who you can find so attractive if you are interested into dense eerie sounds. “Sub dialogue” is still available and ready to be devoured by you!!! by heathen harvest | ||