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Koan - When Invisible Becomes Visible EP (Otium.ru, December 2005)
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pr0fane
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Posted : Dec 15, 2005 20:26
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Artist: Koan
Title: When Invisible Becomes Visible
Label: Otium.ru
Format: WAV/MP3
Released: December, 2005
Cover: http://otium.ru/img/upload/release/bimg/otr024.jpg
Review:
Based in the enormous Russia, mainly known for the dark and heavy psychedelic trance, Daniel Roeth & Vladimir Sedov, are going in a completely different direction. Under the project names Vacuum Stalkers and Koan they are starting to make a name of themselves in progressive and chillout circles, so far appearing on a few releases on Horns And Hoofs. "When Invisible Becomes Visible" is a new chillout release with their Koan project, released on the Russian netlabel otium.ru.
01. Nasca Lines
"Nasca Lines" has a very eastern influenced-atmosphere, but not with those sunny summer-vibes that seem to come out on a lot of psychillout releases lately. The sound is colder, and maybe a bit on the static side, but definitely has its charm. A fine track - sweet and with a very loveable naïve touch.
02. Mai's Crystal Bridge
"Mai's Crystal Bridge" is exactly the kind of feel good tune that fits my mood in these cold northern European winter days. It seems to be based on the same theme of sounds as "Nasca Lines", but the result is a lot better, more organic and generally more distinct. The sound is again relatively cold, but with a very catchy, uplifting theme-melody. Overall the track kind of reminds me of going through a beautiful snow-covered landscape. Delicious.
Bottom line:
"When Invisible Becomes Visible" is a sweet release. Don't be fooled by the fact that it's 100% free - it's far from being amateur, and especially "Mai's Crystal Bridge" is a very enjoyable track, which, in my opinion, might as well could have been released on a well-respected labels on the psychedelic chillout scene. Not the best chillout-release I've heard this year, but given the fact that it's free, I can only recommend it.
Favourites:
1, 2 (!!)
Verdict:
7/10
Link:
Otium netlabel: http://www.otium.ru
Download the release: http://otium.ru/en/releases/?id=32  DJ pr0fane (Iboga Records) | Multiphase
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furthur
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Posted : Dec 15, 2005 23:04
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will check out
their full length release on otium was good too
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Voice of All
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Posted : Dec 19, 2005 02:14
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just have noticed this topic... well... also post my review here... thnx
number: OTR024
artist: koan
title: when invisible becomes visible EP
date: 15.12.2004
style: ambient
cover: violet
you can get this release in two variants: mp3/wav
enjoy: http://www.otium.ru
less then a year since koan chill-out and downtempo project of daniel roeth and vladimir sedov (they are also known as participants of tecnho-psy project vacuum stalkers) released their debut talking stones. album was out also at otium label. now koan release their next pair of tracks with ep when invisible becomes visible.
since their previous work guys turned their style to more traditional sounding. while talking stones was full of asian influences and oriental natural scent new work shows their interst to new music direction. still enchanted with east harmony and features tracks sounds more saturated and crispy. but koan still ramains faithful adepts of expressing various national and ancient music traditions. leaving indonesian and philippine features behind they decide to incarnate some of chinease and peruan motifs and do it with pair of great tracks.
.....nasca lines
"the nasca lines are an engima. no one has proof who built them or why. since their discovery, the nasca lines have inspired fantastic explanations from ancient gods, a landing strip for returning aliens, a celestial calendar created by the ancient Nazca civilization -- putting the creation of the lines between 200 BC and 600 AD, used for rituals probably related to astronomy, to confirm the ayllus or clans who made up the population and to determine through ritual their economic functions held up by reciprocity and redistribution, or a map of underground water supplies."
with this track koan try to attract our attention to ancient inca culture. it starts with distorted voice echo that sounds from far away and with breakbeat-like but soft drums. nice delicate melody performed with combination of synthetic and guitar-string sounds. it untwists and then fades away. and again... at about 4:00 there is a pause in track developing but then melody again becomes a leader. at 6:00 new sound appears. it is deep and vibrating bass note.
.....mai's crystal bridge
this track provides a connection between koan's album talking stones and their 'new style'. here you can learn how drumwork can easily turn from asian influence to more traditional european sound. authors removed most of bells and bongs themes and leave only base drums that brings taste of their music closer to some bluetech's tunes. chorus in the begining continues with rather fat beats. nice melody with very touching atmosphere in it spreads in the track and dies away at about 3:00. then new chorus echoes brings new variation of the melody part and whole atmosphere seems to be "reborned" with this move.
im very happy to note two things with this release. first of all it is crystal now that russian electronica do not represent only mad and sick moods and states of mind but also connected with natural and chill sounds... and the second is that otium have now an expirience of releasing 'high-quality music in high quality'
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furthur
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Posted : Dec 19, 2005 04:45
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really cool that they made the music available in .wav
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Autopilot
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Posted : Dec 19, 2005 18:18
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Cool stuff , thanx for the link 
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intrees
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Posted : Dec 19, 2005 21:21
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cheers for this, listening now...
great cover too !
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Voice of All
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Posted : Dec 21, 2005 16:57
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great cover too !
yeah, cover is pretty good. violet - russian girl very skilfull in digital art & design.
here the cover in full quality: http://aeroboard.ru/board/album_page.php?pic_id=19727 Spiritual guides are to practice and serve in ways that cultivate awareness, empathy, and wisdom. |
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