Vomir - Claustration (2008)
| Disc 1 |
| 1 |
Claustration I |
61:12 |
| Disc 2 |
| 1 |
Claustration II |
56:11 |
| Disc 3 |
| 1 |
Claustration III |
60:09 |
| Disc 4 |
| 1 |
Claustration IV |
54:25 |
| Disc 5 |
| 1 |
Claustration V |
54:25 |
| Disc 6 |
| 1 |
Untitled (from "La Supplication Du Vomi") |
10:05 |
| 2 |
Untitled (from "Vomir", first Vomir release) |
5:29 |
| 3 |
Meurs |
9:30 |
| 4 |
Excerpt from “Sans Cesse Revenir Aux Jeunes Filles Qui Se Branlent” (i) |
1:07 |
| 5 |
Excerpt from “Sans Cesse Revenir Aux Jeunes Filles Qui Se Branlent” (ii) |
| 1:21 |
| 6 |
Excerpt from “Sans Cesse Revenir Aux Jeunes Filles Qui Se Branlent” (iii) |
| 3:02 |
i am having a hard time putting my thoughts of this album into words. firstly, this is one of the most thought provoking albums of all time. i consider myself to be very liberal with music; if something is tagged as an album it is approached as such, and anything with intention can be music. yet i find my own boundaries and ideas being pushed to their limits with this release. there is absolutely nothing of traditional musical value here: there are no rhythms, no melodies, no variety, no structure (sort of), there is almost not even diversity in the songs (5 hour long songs that are almost identical), and overall nothing to warrant prolonged attention. infact, its almost counterintuitive to what music typically is. forcing yourself to concentrate on this feels redundant; there is no minute that is unlike the rest, yet it doesnt feel like a true "listen" you do not sit through all 5 hours. there is so little and so much said at once.
i want to consider this a seriously important album in the history of experimental music, or atleast the HNW movement itself. this is a genre that completely strips music of what makes it itself, and pushes the envelope as far as it can. you could equate this to its genre's eponymous real world equivalent. i like to imagine an art exhibit of a completely empty square room. there are 4 blank congruent walls made of drywall, they are not painted, and they do not have any noticeable differences. this is the art piece, and it is just like Claustration (or HNW as a whole). the walls are NOT the same. close inspection could find one wall has a group of dots where another doesnt, but all of these small differences do not add up to making each wall indistinguishable from the others. there is then something in Claustration that commentates on a universal scale. on very large scales, the universe must be homogenous; no one part of the universe looks too dissimilar to another (from very far away). of course, on closer inspection there may be more planets here then there but this is the same problem as the walls: such small differences do not matter and cannot add up to those scales. the most voted review for claustration mentions that vomir is the "most misunderstood noise artist". i completely agree, but i think that even most people that enjoy this record are approaching it from the wrong angle still. there is no best track, there is no worst track, there are no differences, there are 5 walls to look at, and that is it. the bonus material on disc 6 is also very good.
