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Veinke is the dark ambient project of American Daniel Marvin, founded in 1996. Collection III. The Black Summer is quite a dark record. This can be expected from the almost completely black front cover, and theback cover with the drawing of a screaming face, and deep, dark eye sockets. The liner notes seem hard and satanistic to me as well: 'Those who are blind, shall remain blind. Those who are not, shall have the pleasures they reap. Knowledge alone is meaningless. Knowledge and Ability are the means of power. Chaos is the only truth. Strive. Achieve. Conquer. Destroy. Create. Conquest is never complete. Conquest is never done.' The music is a good mirror of this dark, cold atmosphere. We get almost an hour of very dark ambient with low chants, grating sounds and raw noise. The atmosphere reminds me a bit of newer Halo Manash, only Veinke is less chaotic and dense.
The album starts cautiously, as the first song doesn't contain much variation, consisting mostly of overlayed waves and drones. A calm introduction, but not very exciting in itself. The second track is better, with rhythmic grating and sqeaking sounds that are repeated, low chants, and percussion. The song has a development typical of ambient, with sounds appearing and leaving after a while. "iii" is the highlight of the album. It's a very long track that conjures up images of abandoned, decaying buildings, where dark forces are invoked. The track has a slow development, with more grating noises, waves, low choirs and a plethora of effects. The first movement fades slowly into silence, from which a drum and drones soon emerge, a new movement that is slowly supplemented with low drums, an unintelligible male voice and other effects, only to sink away into deep drones again. These, then, are slowly rebuilt again with more pounding drums and low chanting, the part that impresses me most. After this heavy, but calm song, we're heavily startled by the fourth track, which immediately bursts forth with earsplitting rhythmic noise and percussion. A well-succeeded track. The last tracks contain more noise. "v" truly is 'hellish' noise, with some effects. In the end, a bit of structure is added, when the track suddenly stops. The next track has some sort of dirty, blubbery sound, which doesn't really impress me. The last track sounds slightly like radio static, and sadly has little variation or structure.
The last part of the CD doesn't impress me all that much, but the first part is very, very good, especially the extensive third track. But the up-tempo noise of the fourth track is also worth mentioning. All in all, I think this is a good album, that deserves recommendation to lovers of dark and bleak noise/ambient. Lovers of Halo Manash and other projects from the Helixes collective would do good to check this out.
D.M.K.
The album starts cautiously, as the first song doesn't contain much variation, consisting mostly of overlayed waves and drones. A calm introduction, but not very exciting in itself. The second track is better, with rhythmic grating and sqeaking sounds that are repeated, low chants, and percussion. The song has a development typical of ambient, with sounds appearing and leaving after a while. "iii" is the highlight of the album. It's a very long track that conjures up images of abandoned, decaying buildings, where dark forces are invoked. The track has a slow development, with more grating noises, waves, low choirs and a plethora of effects. The first movement fades slowly into silence, from which a drum and drones soon emerge, a new movement that is slowly supplemented with low drums, an unintelligible male voice and other effects, only to sink away into deep drones again. These, then, are slowly rebuilt again with more pounding drums and low chanting, the part that impresses me most. After this heavy, but calm song, we're heavily startled by the fourth track, which immediately bursts forth with earsplitting rhythmic noise and percussion. A well-succeeded track. The last tracks contain more noise. "v" truly is 'hellish' noise, with some effects. In the end, a bit of structure is added, when the track suddenly stops. The next track has some sort of dirty, blubbery sound, which doesn't really impress me. The last track sounds slightly like radio static, and sadly has little variation or structure.
The last part of the CD doesn't impress me all that much, but the first part is very, very good, especially the extensive third track. But the up-tempo noise of the fourth track is also worth mentioning. All in all, I think this is a good album, that deserves recommendation to lovers of dark and bleak noise/ambient. Lovers of Halo Manash and other projects from the Helixes collective would do good to check this out.
D.M.K.