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VV.AA.: Orbital Planes & Passenger Trains vol.1

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Artist: VV.AA.
Title: Orbital Planes & Passenger Trains vol.1
Format: CD
Label: Serein
Rated: * * * * *
Assign or relate a function to music - a song for having a coffee with friends, a song for letting your children sleep, a song for a pervert night, a song for an elevator, a song to charm snakes or beetles - is an old-fashioned way of advertising records that gradually disappeared and made me smile. Many musicians have reasonable arguments against this method of introducing music, which was widely used by first ambient labels and got massively reprised by new age-focused labels and compilation pushers, that expanded the types of situation to fit sounds, songs, and any supposedly suitable audible products. Welsh label Serein introduced this collection of beautiful tracks by highlighting the perfect usability during a journey, but the quality of each track is so high and elevating for the mood and thought of listeners that most of the reviewers could turn a blind eye against this grossly hackneyed manner of speaking about music. Most of the tracks are close to that traditional interbreeding between ambient music, contemporary classical and tonal spraying that featured stylistic grounds that got fertilized in the recent past by other labels as well, such as London-based Just Music through the releases by artists such as Jon Hopkins, Echaskech, Honeyroot and Leo Abrahams, but there are many variations on the theme of escapism in this selection widening the stylistic range: tracks like Benoit Pioulard's "Alogia" or The Inventors of Aircraft's "No Returns" lap upon Boards of Canada's ethereal shores, some similarities to the pianism by Ludovico Einaudi, can be caught in the beautifully melancholic opening by Otto A Totland on "Selon", the ecstatic tension by Brambles on "Petrichor" could be matched by some divagations by Johann Johannsson, some stuff that rearranged sounds according to a fuzzier logic such as Ametsub's "Blue Loop" - I already introduced "All is Silence", one of the best output by this sound artist in this space - or the entrancing "Solaris", co-signed by Yui Onodera and Chihei Hatakeyama - other known names to Chain DLK followers - or the warm thin sonic vapor by Imprints' "Roy" or the crepuscular intercrossing with field recordings by Donato Wharton on "A Lightless Volume of Water". The mentioned tracks and the whole content of this excellent compilation will demonstrate that your mind could reach unpredictable space orbits using well-selected tunes whether or not physically traveling on rails, wheels or feet.

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