‘Dream Landscape’ is the first official solo release by ANEMONE TUBE after 9 years of silence. Originally founded in 1996 in Southern Germany, ANEMONE TUBE has quite made a name for himself in the industrial/noise genre especially due to the psychogenic nature of his music.
On this new release ANEMONE TUBE creates massive ambient/noise soundscapes. The sounds are pulsating, drowning and floating, tormenting and caressing – all culminating in a haunting sonic experience.
‘Dream Landscape’ is – together with the album ‘Death over China’ – the first part of the ‘Suicide Series’. To this field recordings made in China provide a conceptional basis.
‘Dream Landscape’ is a concept album of fierce malignant power. In a poetic way ANEMONE TUBE combines analytical realism of the phenomenal world with buddhist psychology and nihilist rhetoric influenced by the visionary authors H.P. Lovecraft and Yukio Mishima.
Mastering by JAMES PLOTKIN, January/February 2010.
The special edition bonus DVD is a collaborative work between the brazilian video artist GUSTAVO DE LACERDA and ANEMONE TUBE. The work, entitled 1515, is a conceptual experimental film made in Rotterdam. The soundtrack is based on real-time field recordings made in Nanjing and Shanghai.
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REVIEW
”I was pretty excited when Stefan contacted me about the renewed ANEMONE TUBE, and for good reason: I’m not sure if it’s a taste so many others share, but I always found Anemone Tube material particularly well planned and unquestionably focused.
This new round of material is largely sourced from field recordings made in China, supplemented on ‘Dream Landscape’ with some subtle synth tones, all patiently honed and effected for a genuinely unique amalgamation of sounds which owes more to ANENZEPHALIA-esque power electronics mannerisms than it does to typically apparent field recording collectors.
There’s no intention here to recreate a mood or time already passed; instead – and somewhat similarly to JOHN WATERMANN’s essential ‘CALCUTTA GAS CHAMBER’ (CD on ND/Cold Spring and 12” on Die Stadt) – the sounds are shaped, looped, treated and manifested into a completely new, more invigorated shape. Particularly malevolent is “Demoniac Reign”, adding ominous muffled speech fragments to the flaying high-end storms and dramatic synth drone which are the common themes to ‘Dream Landscape’. But each track making up this half hour or so has its own energy and blend of textures, all with that assuredness found on previous Anemone Tube recordings.”
Chris Groves, Night Science IV Magazine, March 2010
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Price including shipping:
CD edition:
- € 14,00 inside Belgium
- € 15,50 to Europe
- € 16,00 to the rest of the world
CD+DVD edition
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€ 18,50 inside Belgium
- € 22,00 to Europe
- € 22,50 to the rest of the world
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