VidnaObmana Spore
Released: January 21, 2003 Origination Year: 2003 Time: 73:43 Tracks: 9 Produced by: VidnaObmana Style: Studio Format: CD Enhancement: None Label: Release Records Website: www.vidnaobmana.be/
Track Listing through the collective pain the Humanity underneath skin Strip duality of Passion beyond the Shaman the Nihilist creep - isolation trip spore resonant Gore
Vidna Obmana Vidna Obmana: Atmospheres, rhythms, various Fujara's, overtone flutes and percussion, dreampipe, recycling & abstract mutations, voices, electric guitar and E Bow harmonics

We love stories. It’s seen through our passion for books, movies, and music. It’s in the lore of every race and is passed down from generation to generation. From the classic tales to spoken nightmares, the imagination of mankind is sparked to explore every corner of our existence. Fear engulfs the largest part of that imaginative stream. Our inability to understand that which cannot be understood, such as death and separation, coupled with our dread of loneliness or abject pain of loss inspires the part of us that wishes to know.

The medium of music carries perhaps the greatest methods of story telling known to man. It does not rely on visuals to assist it but rather arouses the mind to create visuals that are unique to the listener. In this way, the thing that motivates man to absorb and to create is the engine of imagination.

Vidna Obmana is no stranger to music as the bridge way to fantastic conceptual communication. He has collaborated with many of the genre’s best including Steve Roach. Their Projekt efforts are superior descents into the psyche of man as communicated by music.

Tribal rhythms carry thought and expression well. When interspersed with disturbing industrial tones, heavy in every respect, as if the mechanisms of hell are well-oiled pistons and hot steam, the conveyance of a trip of fear is inevitable. This is the intent of Vidna Obmana who is a creator of dark soundtracks. This soundtrack is a frighteningly capable audio presentation of Dante’s Inferno full of sounds designed to unnerve you as you travel through the storied lands of Dante’s world.

Spore is the second entry of a Dante Trilogy. With its 9 track, 70+ minute soundtrack of expression and movement through a populated world with Obmana as your guide, you get to ride a roller coaster of texture. Always a tribal rhythm in place, the chants and filtered sounds create a thrilling albeit an emotionally wringing trip though a carnival of fear.

“skin Strip” is that descent into the beginning of the album’s audio story. With the slowly building multi-rhythm that escorts you through the netherworlds, each succeeding tune takes you closer to the core of fear that this album successfully creates. “duality of Passion” begins with a quickened rhythm as you move from the outer perimeter into the outer core. It is the speeding beat of your heart as you move past darkness into sporadic light and sounds of increased activity. With each progressive crossing of borders, Spore takes on a sinister and more forbidding air. You can sense the heaviness and feel the drenching and sticky moisture of foreboding as the machinations become more and more clear to your auditory senses.

With “the Nihilist”, a 7-minute realization of frightened anticipation, you can sense a short-circuiting of hope. And it gets more intensely intriguing as “creep – isolation trip” takes over. “creep – isolation trip” is itself an 11-minute explorative into the core of your spiritual disruption and unease.

Spore concludes with a surrealistic realization of expectancy. With so many dark corners and fogged passageways, the ambiance of “spore” leaves you ill prepared for the 17+ minutes of softly communicated and increasingly heightened sense of despair that is found in “resonant Gore”. As it determinedly moves you toward the outer nucleus of abandoned hope, you have completely become one with the world formulated by this amazingly dark album.

The music is very reminiscent of Tangerine Dream’s atmospheric classic, Stratosfear and their impressive Sorcerer soundtrack. Both albums occupy the same period of time and are therefore united in thought and intent. With a set of headphones and closed eyes, you can fully immerse into the world of Spore. At the end, your trip is well worth the price of admission. You just need to readjust to the world of the living after experiencing Spore. Easier said than done since Spore resonates long after it’s finished.