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Review: 'Vialard, Christian'
'Neukalm'   

-  Album: 'Neukalm' -  Label: 'Grautag Records'
-  Genre: 'Ambient' -  Release Date: 'March 2014'-  Catalogue No: 'GTR#007'

Our Rating:
Although released under Christian Vialard’s name alone, ‘Neukalm’ is actually thw work of Vialard and cult composer Fred Bigot, renowned in certain circles for remixing Depeche Mode and working with JG Thirlwell, amongst other things.

The press release informs us that Vailard’s work sits between Noise and Post Rock, and that he likes to talk about Morton Feldman and Steve Reich as his major influences, but without forgetting Suicide, Brian Eno or Einstürzende Neubauten. It’s perhaps as well, because little of this is in evidence on ‘Neukalm’, where spacious synth bass and bleepy top end orbit motorik beats to define the album’s sound.

‘Lidel 1’, one of the album’s co-composed tracks, slithers into murky Suicide-like territory – with elements of Joy Division stirred into the soup for good measure, while ‘Lidel 2’is a psychedelic rock workout with heavily processed and wholly incomprehensible vocals.

Across the remainder of the tracks – of which there are eight in all, spread generously across four sides of vinyl – the grooves radiate trance-like pulsing sonic kaleidoscopes with lasers, with unexpected breakdowns and the occasional solar flare.

Christian Vialard Online
  author: Christopher Nosnibor

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