DURAN VAZQUEZ
CDr
PRESS / REVIEWS
Reviewed on VITAL WEEKLY
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R.O.N.F. Records thinks that this release is more suited for me than Jliat, since its dark ambient rather than their usual noise onslaught. I seem to have reviewed the music of Duran Vazquez on two previous occasions. Once was a split CD with Sumugan Sivanesan (see Vital Weekly 402) and a MP3 release in Vital Weekly 656. None of them are easily reminded here however. On the first release he used field recordings and on the second computerized no-input mixer to a larger extent. This seems also to be the case on this new one, along with perhaps synthesizer and the odd taped speech and a bit of field recording (from inside a car?). Dark it is, ambient at times, but its at other times also quite unsettling, almost noise like. This is certainly not music to lull the listener into deep sleep, but rather transport him to the post apocalyptic scenery of a recently exploded nuclear bomb. Since it defies categorization (ambient, industrial, drone, field recording), but merges together the best of all of those worlds, this is actually quite a nice release. As said quite unsettling, nerve shaking rumble from the inner core of the earth, music by and no doubt for the last human on earth.
