Vrioon

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Vrioon
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Studio album by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto
Released December 2002
Genre Electronic, minimalism
Length54:39
Label Raster-Noton r-n050-2
Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto chronology
Vrioon
(2002)		 Insen
(2005) Insen2005

Vrioon is the debut collaboration album between Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto, released in 2002. [1] [2] This is the first album in the Virus Series followed by four other records: Insen (2005), Revep (2006), utp_ (2008), and Summvs (2011). [3] [4] The initial letters of the five albums together form the word "Virus". [5]

Ryuichi Sakamoto Japanese musician

Ryuichi Sakamoto is a Japanese composer, singer, songwriter, record producer, activist, and actor who has pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO). With his bandmates Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi, Sakamoto influenced and pioneered a number of electronic music genres.

Alva Noto German musician

Carsten Nicolai, known as Alva Noto, is a German musician. He is a member of the music groups Diamond Version with Olaf Bender (Byetone), Signal with Frank Bretschneider and Olaf Bender, Cyclo with Ryoji Ikeda, ANBB with Blixa Bargeld and Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto with whom he composed the score for the 2015 film The Revenant.

<i>Insen</i> 2005 studio album by Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto

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Contents

Overview

A minimalist album, it is characterized by an unusual experimental sound driven by piano and distorted, clipped samples (a sound which Sakamoto and Noto would also experiment with in Insen in 2005). The album was elected among the first 50 albums of 2003 by magazine The Wire . [6] It was also named album of the year in 2004 by The Wire magazine.

<i>The Wire</i> (magazine) British music magazine

The Wire is a British avant-garde music magazine based in Hackney, London. The Wire launched in 1982 as a jazz magazine with an emphasis on avant-garde and free jazz. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the magazine expanded its scope to include a broad range of musical genres. Since then, The Wire has covered electronica, modern classical, free improvisation, avant-rock, hip hop, nu jazz, traditional musics and beyond. The Wire has been independently owned since 2001, when the six permanent staff members at that time purchased the magazine from its previous owner, Naim Attallah.

Reception

Vrioon places the same sort of minimalism in a very different context. You almost had to tune out Transform to enjoy it, it so filled with absence, but with Sakamoto's piano underlying the circuitry, Vrioon could conceivably be said to have a presence. The romantic Sakamoto dwells heavily on his feelings, soaking the music in melodrama wherever possible, and rarely alters the predominant tone of mumpish solemnity. Thus noto's electronics take on a new purpose, adding enterprise to otherwise inward-looking compositions. Symbiosis in action.

—Ben Tausig, Dusted Magazine [7]

Track listing

  1. "Uoon I" 13:51
  2. "Uoon II" 9:40
  3. "Duoon" 5:46
  4. "Noon" 10:13
  5. "Trioon I" 5:09
  6. "Trioon II" 9:57

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ "Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto – Vrioon". Discogs . discogs.com. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
  2. ↑ "ALVA NOTO + RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: VRIOON". Raster-Noton . raster-noton.net. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
  3. ↑ JARNES, MARK. "Best of 2011: Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto "Summvs"". The Japan Times . japantimes.co.jp. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
  4. ↑ "ALVA NOTO + RYUICHI SAKAMOTO ---- VIRUS COLLECTOR'S BOX". Raster-Noton . raster-noton.net. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  5. ↑ "Summvs // Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto // Raster Noton". Kompakt.fm . kompakt.fm. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  6. ↑ http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/435/
  7. ↑ Tausig, Ben (January 15, 2004). "Dusted Reviews". Dusted Magazine. dustedmagazine.com. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
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