Vidna Obanama touchstone album?

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where is a good starting place for this artist, or what is the most essential release?

P.S. I am very familiar with experimental ambient and avant-garde.

― lukeeluke, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 00:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Ah yes, then your thread title must be a pun on their name - Vidna Obmana ;)

I actually don't have any, looking at the Soleilmoon website I would recommend the anthology on Projekt or the collab with Asmus Tietchens. IIRC they also did an album with O Yuki Conjugate but I might be wrong about that.

― sleeve (sleeve), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 04:57 (eighteen years ago) link

The various collaborations I've heard with Steve Roach have been good as well -- I have a number of his albums but would be hesitant to say which of them are considered the best by the hardcore fan base.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 05:02 (eighteen years ago) link

I've only heard the three collaborations with Asmus Tietchens -- the first self-titled one from 1992 is outstanding, as good as it gets, but save the beautiful last track, it's all Tietchens working with Obmana sounds. The later two have more Obmana input and didn't make much of an impression on me.

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 09:09 (eighteen years ago) link

2nd one "Motives for Recycling" was actually a 2 CD Obmana remix of early Tietchens, including a whole disc length rework of "Nachtstück"... the sound of his reverb is always more distinctive than any of the sounds he's feeding into it

3rd one "Shifts Recordings" is a split solo remix of the band Shifts, I think a Frans deWaard project -- one disc Tietchens, second disc Obmana -- now I remember -- the first disc is actually pretty great

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 09:16 (eighteen years ago) link

one year passes...

So shifting gears (and noting the misspelled name in the title) -- in the Tower collapse I picked up Memories Compiled. Hearing the earlier and much more overtly gloom and doom side of him is instructive, I hadn't fully appreciated until now that the later albums were part of an overall shift to a calmer approach.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 25 February 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Fear Falls Burning are ace. Lots of stuff though. Almost as prolific as Aidan baker.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 25 February 2007 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link

four years pass...

'gathering in frozen beauty' is just the crystalline and perfect as the title implies but man it ends up being kinda ominous doesnt it?

― the parable is the parable of the (Lamp), Monday, 30 January 2012 21:29 (twelve years ago) link

I can listen to shit like this endlessly.

― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 02:47 (twelve years ago) link

so the 3LP of early archival stuff they did for Vinyl On Demand is really great, raw & rhythmic. I have another later one on Extreme now but I need to spend more time with it.

― sleeve, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 06:05 (twelve years ago) link

Ending Mirage is my personal favourite...

― Night Nurse with Wound (Jack Battery-Pack), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 12:19 (twelve years ago) link

four years pass...

There's a Bandcamp page now:

http://vidnaobmana.bandcamp.com

― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 15 December 2016 23:30 (seven years ago) link

oh killer. I only know some stuff from Projekt but dug it

― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 15 December 2016 23:48 (seven years ago) link

The Extreme era albums are really great. (As in the Australian label but maybe it could be Nuno's ambient dream.)

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 December 2016 05:01 (seven years ago) link

Landscape in Obscurity is really nice. Tense, but nice.

― erry red flag (f. hazel), Friday, 16 December 2016 05:25 (seven years ago) link

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