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Tuesday, May 19, 2009 

Artist: INTERNAL FUSION
Title: Tribute To Hastia
Format: CD
Label: Lucioléditions [ lucioleditions {at} taalem {dot} com ]
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Active since the early nineties, Internal Fusion during the years released two tapes, several CDrs and an album titled "Om Vaira Sattva Hum" for Staalplat in 1996. TRIBUTE TO HASTIA is its latest album and it's a proper pressed CD released as a 300 copies limited run by Lucioléditions. The six tracks of the album build a mysterious atmosphere in balance from dark ambient and minimal experimental music with tribal influences. Most of the tracks offer a rich palette of sounds that mixed form a complex web of subtle noises, melodies, and distant rhythms. Anyone named Lustmord of the "Paradise disowned" period? Well, the atmosphere can recall those recordings and Internal Fusion is able to face the comparison without losing. So, is this album that good? Well, kind of... "NoxTaNaHem", "Topo" and "Tooki" offer a great mix of tribal/ambient/ritualistic atmosphere and "Vahid", "OmniPilaNem" and "Hastia" with their 13 minutes length need time to be fully appreciated because on those ones the minimal approach reaches its top and you have to be patient to wait for their develop from a dark ambient humming form into something more interesting and rich but all of them have great sounds.

Review by: Maurizio Pustianaz


from http://www.chaindlk.com/reviews/?id=5123

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Tuesday, May 05, 2009 
INTERNAL FUSION - TRIBUTE TO HASTIA (CD by Lucioleditions)
Don't imagine Taalem to be a multinational, but they do have a bunch of sub divisions and its not always clear, at least to me, what is what. Here in Lucioleditions we have a new release by Internal Fusion, the second CD is their history, following 'Om Vaira Satta Hum', released by Staalplaat in 1996. Back then it was a mixture of Lustmord, Muslimgauze and Rapoon, in a tribalesq mood. The ethnic influences are all gone here, but what remained is the dark ambience of say Lustmord, in combination with loops that may or may not form some sort of rhythm. There are slowed down bits of percussion at work, I hear voice based material and various pieces of what could be analogue synthesizers. In a way it sounds drone based, but Internal Fusion always keeps things a bit more tighter and also it stays away a bit more from the world of real drone based ambient. Things stay however sturdy based in the world of dark ambient music - the territory covered (and governed perhaps) by Lustmord.
I thought the material was pretty good, but also a bit long. Six tracks that span the total of more than an hour is quite long. I think some pieces could have been a bit more condensed and it would probably gain in strength. A dark trip this one for those who love magick. (FdW)
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009 

Lucioléditions, a taâlem sublabel, proudly presents



INTERNAL FUSION "tribute to hastia" CD
limited to 300 copies, presented in a transparent slim dvd-case

available now for 12 euros (+ postage) from http://www.taalem.com

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Tuesday, April 07, 2009 


AIDAN BAKER/ARC - THE SUN IS BLEEDING & HAS BLACK HANDS (2CDR by Kokeshidisk)
TZESNE - CROSSING TIERRAHUECA (3"CDR by Taalem)
MATHIAS DELPLANQUE - MA CHAMBRE QUAND JE N'Y SUIS PAS (PARIS) (3"CDR by Taalem)
MICHAEL NORTHAM - MEMORY OF A (3"CDR by Taalem)

If you released as much as Aidan Baker (either solo or with others, such as Arc) then sometimes a release like 'The Sun Is Bleeding & Has Black Hands' is sometimes quite handy. It contains one disc of Baker's own music and one of Arc's, with releases that were previously available as CD, CDR, MP3 and compilations, and this is value for money: two times eighty minutes of music. So, this is your chance to get that one CDR you never bought, or the proper format of that MP3. Baker's solo part has seven tracks of lengthy guitar drone music, using the loop device to quite some extent and things wave and wash nicely about here. One track is on offer with Arc, Baker's trio with Richard Baker an Christopher and Kukiel, which is, without mocking, Aidan Baker plus percussion and the ambient patterns created here are with quasi tribal rhythms, flutes, tablas and such like. I think I would have like it more like this: Baker/Arc/Baker/Arc on two CDs, but this is a highly atmospheric also and it works pretty well. Nothing new, but a great compilation for completists.

Three new releases on Taalem, the sub division that specializes in 3"CDRs. Up to release 55-57 here, starting off with four pieces by Tzesne from the Basque country. Four shorter pieces at work here, in which he blends together field recordings and electronics. In some of his previous works this has resulted in some more noise based ambience, but these four new pieces are all quite quiet on the ambient side, with only 'Swarm' being a bit louder. Quite nice this new material.

Mathias Delplanque has a whole series of works devoted to empty spaces, and this particular one was already recorded in 2001, and now edited into a great twenty minute of music. Like before, Delplanque uses the empty space as a starting point, and even while his work is inside microsound, he transposes the silence into some powerful music, which never goes 'quiet'. Through various sections, he brings the empty space alive in some striking piece of music. Devoid of microsound, this is probably more ambient with a touch of industrialism to it. Great work.

Micheal Northam travels a lot and presents here a work that was recorded in India in december 2007, with his microtuned tubular zylophone along with winter rain. Its unclear what (or if at all) he has done with the recordings, but its a pretty neat work. Maybe a bit more rougher than usual, but the various shifting tones of the metallic object he is playing, along with the processed field recordings make this a slow yet always evolving piece of work. A classic Northam piece of drone like acoustic sounds and field recordings. (FdW)


(reviews by Frans de Waard - Vital Weekly 673 - www.vitalweekly.net)


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Tuesday, June 17, 2008 

AKIFUMI NAKAJIMA - WATER 1991 (2CDR by Kokeshidisk)
MOLJEBKA PVLSE - FALL IN WOODLAND CEMETARY (3"CDR by Taalem)
OPIUM - ETERE (3"CDR by Taalem)
BRIAN LAVELLE - THE PETRIFIED FOREST (3"CDR by Taalem)

Before Aube, Akifumi Nakajima was just Akifumi Nakajima, a designer with a strong interest in music. He didn't release that much under his own name, and they were not on his G.R.O.S.S. label. Kokeshidisk already released 'Water 1990' (see Vital Weekly 486) and of course 'Water 1991' is the follow-up and again of course uses just water sounds as its sound source. The difference here is that there were two tapes, which the listener could decide to play simultaneously or separate. I have no DJ set up, so I have to play them one by one. Other similarities are that the music is much softer than the early Aube releases. I think the sound is fed through an analogue synth and some delay pedals, but throughout things are very ambient like on the first disc and things get a bit louder on the second disc, which also seems to be the more musical one of the two. I can imagine that they would go well together. Still in a more free fall these four pieces, but nevertheless good to hear again, after all these years.

On the sub-division for 3"CDR releases, Taalem, three new releases, and two by people whom we already know from much of their previous work. Mathias Josefson's Moljebka Pvlse has had many releases on various labels, displaying his sense for all things dark and ambient. Taalem says it's a 'field recording' and who are we to disbelieve, but it sounds like an orchestral pieces of many strings, playing overtones in a cave while Josefson stands outside. Throughout the course of this piece, things fall back in volume and the night sets in. Nice one.

I don't think I ever heard of Opium from Italy, also known as Teo Zini, who has had releases on Hic Sunt Leones and Silentes. Here too I have not much idea how things were made, but my best guess is a bunch of analogue synthesizers and some machine to imitate ethnic percussion. More synthetic than Moljebka Pvlse, and more from the world where they spell magic as magick. A bit of a cliche world, but Opium knows how to avoid the various traps and makes quite a nice piece.

Brian Lavelle recently surprised us 'Supernaturalist', and the two pieces here were recorded just before that and show the best side of his: manipulating field recordings and very much altering them into microscopic detailed pieces of ambient drones. Slowly changing patterns of what seems to be rain fall, deep bass sounds in 'The Wood Turned Dark And Silent' and more synthetic in 'This Twisting Glade', which sounds like a church organ being dissected. Very nice. (FdW)

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