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Title:  Vault Artist:  Belaska Label:  w.m.o/r Format:  CD Price:  € 12.00   Mp3 samples:   1   2

Title Description:
performed by belaska
Mark Wastell: amplified textures
Mattin: computer feedback
recorded by " " [sic] Goldie at the Vault
The Foundry London EC 2
16th December 2002
texts by Mattin & Zeigam Azizov, Matthew Hyland

Wire issue 237 Nov. 2003
Review by Julian Cowley
On the Belaska duoÕs Vault, WastellÕs Ôamplified texturesÕ encounter MattinÕs computer feedback in a scenario where the most intransigent acoustic identity might be comprehensively stripped away or reconfigured. In practice, the two sound artist preserve the activated ambience of a bank vault, at once cavernous and enclosed, boomingly expansive and claustrophobic, empty and filled with deep, physically affecting subterranean rumbles. The bass frequencies on this recording register palpably in the body, not just the ear. Even at relatively low volume, they can be felt in the vibration of domestic walls and floor. Upper register sounds are beamed in now and again, like laser glints cutting into profound gloom. The CD booklet depicts locks and a steel cell. BelaskaÕs abstraction has considerable figurative force. The impervious, unyielding vault typifies a finite space, and the improvisation within suggest endless reverberation.

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