Vacio Perfecto - Geografia Interiore

Geografia Interiore is a debut album of a Spanish project Vacio Perfecto. All in all this release is a rather good one - nothing superb, nothing fascinating or new, but rather strong one and I'm not dying of boredom while listening to it. Album was released in two editions - 30 tapes and 50 CDrs. CDr is nicely designed and packaged in a digipack of rather rough paper and goes with insert. Balancing between ambient, industrial and noise with light spices of power electronics, this record is with total playing time of more than 50 minutes. Despite the fact that there is a note about musical computer science on the insert, the sound of the album is rather crude and pleasant for your ears. It'd be interesting to compare the sound on the tape and on the CDr that I'm reviewing, but I guess that either it's the record from tape, transferred to disc or analog mastering was done or something like that. Monotonous loops of noise generators or synths, covered with field recordings and effects. Disc creates a rather weird mood, but it's quite hard to grope it for melodies do not exist in this album and so on and the album seems to be cold and remote. Reverbed noise, metal clangs in the distance, cables being diconnected - abstract sound compositions that makes the whole. Positive thing in this album is that author does not stays with the same sounds for too long - release of 50+ minutes consists of 10 separate tracks. And what's most important - effort is felt. There does not exist a sound that would slip through as an incidental one - every field recording, new sound that appeared from the developed themes or so is used purposively, without attempts to experiment too much, break time, rhythm or sound forcibly. That's why it seems like a truly good release for a debut. But these same reasons are the weak point of the album and that's why it cannot rise above "good and strong release". Lack of hook and that special ingredient that truly exceptional releases have. That's one of such albums that you listen to them while it plays, but when you press stop and take the disc out, it seems that you don't miss anything and you're left with no emotions after listening session. One thing that I could say is that I've got impression that stronger tracks were put in the very beginning of the album. Maybe my inner geography differs from Vacio Perfecto too much. The release that is interesting to familiarise yourself to and that's it. 

Format: CDr
Released: 2010
Label: 
Licht und Stahl
Edition: 50

 

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