5/18/2023 0 Comments Raster noton![]() Rather, you’re presented with 14 consecutive landscapes made up of the architecture and infrastructure of yourself, on a nano-mechanical level. And yes, there is a portal deep inside, but it doesn’t lead to any kind of Narnia that C. The entrance to van Abbe’s nondual universe is a Cellar Closet. With NONDUAL, van Abbe presents the listener with an opportunity to sonically explore this realization. The term refers to the recognition that what we essentially are, behind this seeming multiplicity and diversity of objects, others and selves, is a single indivisible reality. NONDUAL will be out in February 2022 alongside DUAL, a remarkable collaboration with the label’s co-founder Olaf Bender (Byetone). More than five years since his debut album, sound artist Albert van Abbe now presents NONDUAL on Raster – a contribution so perfectly tailored to the platform that it is hard to conceive it is his first. Sculpture, prosthetics, photography by sarah sitken. Yet, more than a political statement »decadent yet depraved« is an introspective journey, turning each listener into a spiritual soul-seeker staring into the abyss, reaching for some kind of cathartic truthfulness. The result is a soundtrack for this apocalyptic time, an uncompromising reflection on the state of mankind and its uncertain future – underscored by a sense of religious and secular demise referenced in track titles, samples, and soundscapes scattered throughout the album. »decadent yet depraved«, the debut album by belief defect, finds shelter and complicity in raster as home and label.įamiliar with the underground music scene and how its skeptical nature can also be an obstacle to overcome, belief defect abandon any claim or credit in an attempt to transcend the limits authorship imposes, avoid the boundaries or expectations earned or self imposed and find the clearest, most direct path to their music for themselves and the listener.Īt the core of the album is the music that inspired them, the conclusion of countless recordings listened to in their formative years that ultimately result in a life-long devotion to electronic music: from dance floor to primal anger and self-annihilating noise, to transcendental, ambient escapism and intense self-reflexive sonic layering. Programmed, engineered and mastered by an algorithm. a soundtrack for all of you hi-tech vagabonds, you godless drifters, deprived of past and present. the seductive spell of artificiality and its inherent promise of tomorrow’s bliss. indecipherable messages from another species – future faux amis. familiar vocal fragments speak to us in foreign tongues, languages still to be invented. the false promise of linear progress as it shatters, hitting the barrier of sound. unseen geometries dressed in the most basic of rhythmic patterns – simple structures of hidden symmetries. somatic exorcism via hyper realistic surfaces of binary noise. ![]() dead ideas are crushed by feet, dancing the dance of brutal elegance. dead tissue is being torn off in radical body movements. a projection of the metahuman horizon, an exercise in shedding the exoskeleton. »neuer mensch« (»new human«) is the relentless, visceral expression of metamorphosis. ![]() The continuously edited, autonomous piece of code as which atom™ defines itself enters the hot state of flow.
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