our latest album was released on MusicZeit
http://www.downloadplatform.com/dutch_space_mission/Von Haulshoven and Phrozenlight teamed up again to create a new album.
Cosmic Grunn is dedicated to the most beautiful province Groningen (the
Netherlands). This is the right place to get your spiritual peace to
make some nice floating music.
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a review by
Sylvain Lupari from Guts Of Darkness
The French Magazine of Dark & Experimental Music
Here it goes, hope my English is ok :)
DUTCH SPACE MISSION
Morphic intro which stagnates in a space broth, The Sky Is Crying is
very representative of Dutch Space Mission works. A slow opening which
is twisting idly on cosmic sounds effect. A black and cold cosmos
pierced by a noisy spaceship, but paralyzed by a speed that eyes cannot
catch. The obscure undulating layers create an oblong cosmic ballet,
girdled of fine sequences arpeggios which flit around with a
progressive hammering cadence. Heavy sequential lines, à la Redshift,
carve this static linear movement, which winds with strength this
cosmos which rage more than cry.
The music of the Dutch duo Dutch Space Mission embraces the long
gliding movements of the beginning of the 70’s. EM with heavy and slow
development always ends up on hopping, undulating and magnetizing
sequential movements. A mixture of Tangerine Dream on Zeit years and
Keller Schonwalder on a more contemporary time.
Cosmic Grunn, the title track, opens with this same driving wind chime
on dark and metal waves. A black and atonal intro which is lulling from
its reverberating waves, waiting for Von Haulshoven sequences to
animate the movement with agility and charm, behind an analog cosmos of
the 70’s. Remark here the guitar play which clears languorously under
minimalisms sequences and heavy wrapping layers. A superb piece of EM,
style retro Berlin School, which gathers all ingredients of the great
names of the time, such TD, Schulze and Ashra.
The Dream Experiment is a long title with various sonorous passages.
Sometimes noisy and atonal, the piece develops heavy circular
reverberations which oscillate in hostile nothingness, pushing the
hearing at its maximum tolerance. In other moments the movement is
magic, even peaceful, with a melodious synth and of fine hopping
sequences. A musical Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde which can please of his
variegated and undisciplined structure, but which can also have its
aggressive sides with its heavy circular reverberations and a metallic
synth colder than Siberia. This caustic synth opens Floating Stones. A
marvellous title which smells Steve Roach tribal structures, with a
cosmic and a more electronic approach. Tablas’s percussions are
superbly suggestive and marry with wonder a chameleon synth, to
mellotron breaths, on a invading musical background.
Dutch Space Mission is a particular group. Do not like this Dutch duet
which wants. Von Haulshoven and Phrozenlight explore very progressive
musical structures, even if the roots of Berlin School are omnipresent,
with an aggressive approach, even if the structures can be morphic, in
a surprisingly rich sound flood. Me I liked, but I heard it more than
once….
Sylvain Lupari from Guts Of Darkness
The French Magazine of Dark & Experimental Music