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01. AANIPAA - Muse
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02. AANIPAA - Toward All Thresholds
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03. AANIPAA - Mirror of Mirror Dreams
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04. AANIPAA - Watch Over Stillness/Matters Principle
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ARTIST
AANIPAA
TITLE
Through a Pre-Memory
FORMAT
2LP
LABEL
EDITIONS MEGO
CATALOG #
EMEGO 175LP
EMEGO 175LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
11/26/2013
Gatefold double LP version. "
Mika Vainio
and
Stephen O'Malley
are both seminal figures in the experimental underground having established themselves in the epoch-defining acts
Pan Sonic
and
SunnO)))
. While they explored different worlds, one abstracted guitar drone metal, the other hard rhythms and analog atmospheres, there was always an underlying thread which bound both acts: massive blocks of sound, vast cavernous spaces, a sense of drama and the foreboding along with a deep exploration of the physical experience unlike any previously experienced. Pan Sonic and SunnO))) first collaborated together on a
Suicide
cover version for a Blast First Petite series in 2007/2008, and following this, Mika and Stephen decided to collaborate further with what eventually became the
ÄÄNIPÄÄ
sessions. Recorded at
Einstürzende Neubauten
's Andere Baustelle Tonstudio in Berlin and mixed at Avast! (
Soundgarden
,
Earth
) in Seattle over an extended period, the results see individual approaches coalesce into a monumental whole. The signature motifs of both players are to be found here: the sparse, crushing rhythms of Vainio's minimalist techno alongside the black-hole drones of O'Malley's guitar workouts. It is the alchemical combination of these elements that shifts this release into a new world of burning intensity. At once unholy and emotional,
Through a Pre-Memory
takes the listener on a vast journey. On "Toward All Thresholds" immense bleak landscapes succumb to sparse glacial rhythms. "Mirror of Mirror Dreams" holds itself in reflective terrain as string arrangements by
Eyvind Kang
are played with
Moriah Neils
(contrabass) and
Maria Scherer Wilson
's (cello), providing desolate strokes to the cleansing ambient landscape preceding it. A new level of terror is reached on the epic "Muse" and "Watch over Stillness/Matters Principle," as the writings of Russian modernist poet
Anna Akhmatova
are put to music and sung/spoken/screamed by
Alan Dubin
(
Khanate
/
GNAW
/
O.L.D.
). These monumental texts which book-end this LP are at once ravenous and destructive. The shredding light shining through an impossible black.
Through a Pre-Memory
is a deep, immersive experience from two of the most extreme forward-thinking music/sound practitioners today." --Press release by
Mark Harwood
, 9/13, London; Music by Mika Vainio & Stephen O'Malley with Alan Dubin (vocals), Eyvind Kang (viola), Moriah Neils (contrabass), Maria Scherer Wilson (cello). String arrangements by Eyvind Kang, tape manipulations by
Randall Dunn
.
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