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cat-nr: verazität: 058, release date: June 2008, ltd.-edition: 50, mp3 
`An electro-accoustic experience. Smoothy feedbacks, drones and hidden melodies, played with e-basses and e-guitars. Slowly changes, from lower non-impulsive sounds to intensive vibrations, from deep (2 e-basses) to june paik (2 e-guitars and 1 e-bass) and back.´ | |
In a nice cover comes this 3" CDR recorded by Deep and June Paik. I know Deep as being related to Dhyana Records who releases their music with long intervals, but June Paik is a new name for me, at least if it's not Nam June Paik, but he's dead, so it must be somebody else. These two project played together at the Let There Be Rock concert in february 2007 and Deep member Bernd Spring mixed the material (from april 2007 to january 2008, mind you) which is announced as 'a collection of drones, feedbacks and melodies', which is almost true. Melodies is something I didn't hear very well, but the drones put on by this lot is quite nice. A louder version that what is usually the case in music like this and sounds, through distorted guitars like Sunn O))) or Fears Falls Burning, building in a strict linear fashion. Short but nice. by frans de waard @ vital weekly Ich kann ja nicht müde werden zu erwähnen, wie geschickt, toll und mit viel Liebe für's Detail die Veröffentlichungen von Verato Project immer aufgemacht sind. Auch diesmal: Bei diesem Release handelt es sich um eine 3" CD-R, bestimmt wieder limitiert auf 60 Stück, die in ein aus Stoffherz eingenäht ist. Das Innencover zeigt ebenfalls ein Herz, so eins dieser zum umhängen aus Lebkuchen oder so, die man auf dem Rummel mit weißem "I love You" Schriftzug kaufen kann. In diesem Fall steht da geschrieben: I mog deep. Musikalisch bieten Deep and June eine elektro-akkustische Erfahrung. "I mog deep" ist eine gelungene Melange aus Rückkopplungen, Dronen und eher versteckten Melodien. Die Klänge wurden durch Bass und Gitarre live auf dem Let There Be Rock Konzert im Februar 2007 eingespielt. Fängt "I Mog Deep" eher verhalten an, so werden die Sounds nach und nach impulsiver und steigern sich zu massiven Vibrationen. by creative eclipse I remember one day sitting in class for a lecture in college. It was winter. We sat down, listening to the person in front of us, when I saw the curtain next to him beginning to wave. At first it was a very little movement, but it grew. And I got the feeling that something is not right, even though all was peaceful. Seconds later you could feel the uneasy feeling going through class and suddenly the lecturer stopped and said "This is an earthquake, right?" As if on queue, one of the office personnel got inside the class and yelled "Earthquake! Everybody calmly out! " I got up and walked outside. I remember this day wholly because of one thing alone. It was a serious earthquake, not lethal to anyone, but serious nonetheless, but it was so quite. So gentle. A little 3", bearing a little bit under 17 minutes, enclosed in a nylon bag, enclosed inside a brown cloth bag in the shape of a heart (As in love,not as in blood pump.) and then enclosed once again, in a normal jewel case CD cover. Those bastards, they knew I will listen to this album right away! "I Mog deep" It is written on the plastic cover. For 17 minutes it gets real deep. And then, even deeper. The collaboration between the obscure deep, who make their music with only two bass guitars, while managing to sound way more interesting than this brief description, and intense screamo/ post hardcore group June Paik, was recorded live on 2007 and released this year. It's an abstract and slow process carried out by 3 electric bass guitars and two electric guitars, beginning with minimal entrance of sounds that grows heavier and denser as time goes by. Almost as in a ritual (or maybe this all is! ) more and more waves, are added to the core of the performance. Clocking at six minutes, the bass becomes so dominant one might get the feeling of drowning inside this slow and subtle pulse. Very minimal, much more experimental than the music of its contributors when they are on their own and altogether hypnotizing. Names like Sunn 0))) will come to mind, and they even come on the label's page while describing this album. But where sunn 0))) is dirty and brutal, deep and June Paik are clean and gentle. Gentle like an earthquake. Seventeen minutes of boiling, vibrating drones that intertwine with each other in a way that even at their most violent peaks, you cannot but immerse yourself in the soothing caress of these electric guitars. Bad news guys. There are only 50 copies of this album (how many cloth hearts can YOU make before giving up? Eh? ) , 50 copies of an album is a bit of a race against the clock to get something and it gives an almost futile feeling to the willingness to help out and buy this album, but that's how it is. For all it's worth I can tell you it's an interesting and worthy release! by heathen harvest In their reclusive workloop of jamming in their rehearsal basement every week and jamming on a stage in front of a handful of people every once in a while, Deep have built a small but loyal base of admirers over the last decade or two. Most of those admirers – I loathe to call them fans, because that sounds so little ambitious – are musicians themselves, like June Paik, and every other year or so there will be a collaborative effort and then some months or years later the documentation of this will find its way into the public. Or at least a few dozen people. As good as any reason for this slow procrastination is that for the packaging and design of their releases Deep and their partners in crime favour an approach, that is balanced between do it yourself and megalomaniac. “I mog deep” is a good example: Within a regular CD jewel case somes a little hand sewed heart that contains a smaller CD and there is also a button on top. Which is probably not so extravagant in comparison to the sandfilled packaging they once had or the double tape compilation with handfolded covers of a longer period back, but still. And then of course limited to 50 pieces. 16 minutes is enough to have an impact. “I mog Deep”, yes, I too. In February 2007 Deep and June Paik entered a stage at the Let there be rock concert at Provino and did exactly not what the title of the concert promised. If there is one style of music that is as far apart from rock as possible but still has loud guitars then it is drone. Heavy bass drone with not much more to it. A low humming, grumbling and rolling bass drone that is bound the reawaken the dead and soothe unborn babies with its vibrations. With a little electronic tinkering on the side or is that just the reverb in my ears starting to tingle unexpectedly? Yes, I also start to hear low screams, which are too long and too drawn out to come from a human vocal ability. Whenever there is monotony the human mind starts to seek frantically for regularities and repeating patterns. And if it doesn’t find anything the human mind starts to fill up the spaces by itself. Which, if you further enhance the idea, means that drone music and ambient music, which leaves a lot of spaces and a lot of opportunities for the brain to fill in the blanks by itself, is made up halfways by the listener and the listeners creativity, fantasy and overall mindset has a big impact on how he percieves the piece of music. Which leads me to two more conclusions. One, there is a paradox in here, when the listener starts to rate the ambient or drone music he is actually judging his own abilities to create half of the music in his head. And second, if I say I like this record, then I am actually saying I like me. “I mog Deep”. Yes, me too. by monochrom | ||