{"id":155,"date":"2020-04-24T16:46:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T14:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deison.net\/site\/?page_id=155"},"modified":"2020-12-31T11:21:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T10:21:43","slug":"yugen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.deison.net\/index.php\/yugen\/","title":{"rendered":"Yugen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-heading\">DEISON\/KK NULL<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-heading\">(CD, st.an.da., 2019)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"916\" src=\"http:\/\/www.deison.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/a0218259093_10-1024x916.jpg\" alt=\"DEISON\/KK NULL -Yugen\" class=\"wp-image-81\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.deison.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/a0218259093_10-1024x916.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.deison.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/a0218259093_10-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.deison.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/a0218259093_10-768x687.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.deison.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/a0218259093_10.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>DEISON\/KK NULL<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1510000554\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/deison.bandcamp.com\/album\/yugen\">Yugen by Deison | KK Null<\/a><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" src=\"http:\/\/www.deison.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/0017903664_10-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.deison.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/0017903664_10-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.deison.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/0017903664_10-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.deison.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/0017903664_10-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.deison.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/0017903664_10.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>01. Mono no aware <br>02. Yugen <br>03. A bit of nothing <br>04. Glow river <br>05. Nervi scoperti <br>06. Fade crack down <br>07. Ukiyo <br>08. Dialogo con le stelle morte <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>KK Null<\/em><\/strong>: electronics, noise&nbsp;<br><em><strong>Deison<\/strong><\/em>: field recordings, sound processing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ten years after their first collaboration (\u201cInto\u201d, Silentes, 2009) KK Null and Deison are back together with \u201cYugen\u201d*, a new work exploring darkness and controlled chaos thru deep and dense sounds. Pulsating and fractured electronics are mixed with an eerie atmosphere of clunks, broken tribal drums and hovering electronic tones.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\"><br><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">YUGEN SU ONDAROCK<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>A ben dieci anni di distanza l\u2019italiano&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ondarock.it\/recensioni\/2017-deisonmingle-tiliaventum.htm\">Cristiano Deison<\/a>&nbsp;e il giapponese KK Null (Kazuyuki Kishino, membro fondatore della noise band del Sol Levante, Zeni Geva) tornano a collaborare per un nuovo album. Il lavoro \u00e8 pubblicato in edizione limitata su cd per St.An.Da e s\u2019intitola \u201cYugen\u201d, una parola giapponese che si pu\u00f2 tradurre letteralmente come \u201cleggermente scuro\u201d ma che indica, nel suo senso pi\u00f9 ampio, anche qualcosa d\u2019insondabile, misterioso e imperscrutabile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00c8 proprio un\u2019elettronica astratta quanto oscura, granulare nella sua esplorazione spaziale e micro-emozionale, che ci trasporta in un affiatato e serratissimo corpo a corpo sonoro che sembra lambire introversi e inquieti mondi interni (\u201cNervi Scoperti\u201d e \u201cUkiyo\u201d) come infinite vastit\u00e0 cosmiche alla ricerca di un \u201cDialogo con le stelle morte\u201d, per citare il titolo del brano finale dell\u2019album.<br>Continua quindi il percorso dei due artisti tra derive noise e&nbsp;<em>glitch sounds<\/em>, una lunga strada inaugurata nel lontano 2009 con \u201cInto\u201d, e che ora vede in \u201cYugen\u201d una sorta di gemello imploso, un&nbsp;<em>rendez-vous<\/em>&nbsp;in cui far emerge il lato pi\u00f9 diafano e post-apocalittico della musica cosmica di Deison e KK Null, immaginaria colonna sonora per l&#8217;attivit\u00e0&nbsp;di quasar e pulsar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYugen\u201d \u00e8 un album molto curato e levigato nelle sue<em>&nbsp;texture<\/em>&nbsp;sonore ma, al contempo, \u00e8 l\u2019esito di una sperimentazione che non ha timore di giocare con una sorta di caos controllato, quell\u2019imperfezione ricercata e necessaria capace di far balenare un guizzo estetico tra&nbsp;<em>drone music<\/em>&nbsp;e glitch oscuri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ondarock.it\/recensioni\/2019-deisonkknull-yugen.htm\">LINK)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">YUGEN ON DEATH METAL<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Another collaboration from K.K. Null shows us the immense flexibility of the almost pure music he creates from manipulated sound, with Deison providing what sounds like a techno\/necrowave framework over which ominous, haunting, and disturbing noise hangs like a funereal curtain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Songs build like veils of smoke accumulating, parts moving in different directions until some synchrony is reached, at which point the narrative dissolves and something new emerges from the obscurity, creating the combination of ambiguity and hopeful emptiness which drives all outsider music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a foot in both worlds,&nbsp;<em>Yugen<\/em>&nbsp;builds itself from both deliberately erratic digital beats and sound of unclear origins, contrasting the finite and the unknowable in convergent streams which make the crossover between these two appealing, tantalizing, and forbidding. Despite seeming to fit easily within the framework of either style, this release occupies both spaces at once, stimulating the mind with a confounding protean unity in duality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like most layered music, it consists of creating something like a groove and then producing complex sounds within it which draw that stability into different directions, prompting the rhythm track to break and go elsewhere, only returning to theme through suggestions of similarity in shape and texture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rare for a Null-associated release,&nbsp;<em>Yugen<\/em>&nbsp;avoids sonic extremities, preferring to subvert rather than bludgeon. It makes for a perplexing listen, both pleasing to the ear and challenging it, taking the howling wildlands of dystopia and bringing them into the living room where all can shiver in bug-eyed horror.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deathmetal.org\/review\/deison-k-k-null-yugen-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\">(LINK)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">YUGEN SU SOWHAT<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>L\u2019oscura percezione dell\u2019effimera ed incostante bellezza del mondo. Ad un decennio di distanza dalla prima volta tornano ad incrociarsi le rotte risonanti di&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.deison.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Deison<\/a>&nbsp;e&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kknull.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">KK Null<\/a>, originando un frenetico microcosmo di convulse spirali generate dalla nervosa fusione di inquietudini occidentali e concettuali approcci che permeano la cultura del sol levante.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ribollenti schegge sintetiche si muovono libere disegnando accidentate traiettorie dall\u2019evoluzione caotica, gradualmente strutturate attraverso lo stridente incastro con ruvide sequenze ritmiche che interpolano i frammenti taglienti fino alla tormentata densit\u00e0 che segna il momento centrale del lavoro. Da qui in poi l\u2019atmosfera&nbsp; diventa ancor pi\u00f9 algida ed inquieta sprigionandosi da incursioni sempre pi\u00f9 sotterranee e dilatate che si riversano in una terminale notturna contemplazione di un cielo in definitivo disfacimento.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Un\u2019incursione profonda tra dispotiche visioni costellate da graffianti riverberi e cadenze ancestrali.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sowhatmusica.wordpress.com\/2020\/01\/03\/deison-kk-null-yugen\/\">(LINK)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">YUGEN SU ADVERSE EFFECT MAGAZINE<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Eight collab pieces between these respective prolific Italian and Japanese artists whose own work has long been bobbing on the seas of so-called \u2018experimental\u2019 music for a considerable while now. Both of them operate in the medium of digital or heavily processed sound, sometimes sourcing location recordings or a disparate selection of instruments through which to channel their own take on penumbral tones, timbres, haze and splutter meshed together to create atmospheric works sometimes cranked to white-hot levels of overload. Mostly of a more filmic or kaleidoscopic nature yet imbued with undercurrents of more imposing abstract noise, this is all pretty effective. Whether or not either Null or Deison actually bring anything to the table that the other party wouldn\u2019t begs another question, however.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/adverseeffectmagazine.com\/reviews-2020\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/adverseeffectmagazine.com\/reviews-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">(LINK)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">YUGEN SU KATHODIK<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Dieci anni dopo \u201cInto\u201d (su&nbsp;<strong>Silentes<\/strong>), tornano a darsele nell&#8217;ombra&nbsp;<strong>Cris Deison<\/strong>&nbsp;e il nippo (spesso) furioso&nbsp;<strong>KK Null<\/strong>.<br>Spilli elettronici, aguzzi e blippanti che infestano ogni dove, su tappeto (spesso) monocromo di field in trattamento e toni sospesi in fase di blocco.<br>Qualche ticchettio da macchinario in inceppo che si disperde in un vuoto scampanellante (<em>A Bit Of Nothing<\/em>),\u2006 \u2006 lo scampanellio che muta in arcaico fluire (<em>Glow River<\/em>), circuiti in libero chiacchiericcio (<em>Nervi Scoperti<\/em>), percussioni in mirabile opera di elongazione a freddo sottovuoto (<em>Fade Crack Down<\/em>), oscurit\u00e0 in raschiante avvicinamento minaccioso (<em>Ukiyo<\/em>), persuasiva e romantica vampa minimal gamelan \/<strong>Coil&nbsp;<\/strong>(<em>Dialogo Con Le Stelle Morte<\/em>).<br>Urti, astrazioni e tanto ispirato assemblaggio post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sowhatmusica.wordpress.com\/2020\/01\/03\/deison-kk-null-yugen\/\">(LINK<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathodik.it\/modules.php?name=Reviews&amp;rop=showcontent&amp;id=7547\">)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">YUGEN ON VITAL WEEKLY<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Both KK Null and Deison are musicians who love to collaborate, either in person or through the exchange of sound files. I would think this is an example of the latter, as for Null it says recorded at &#8216;Prima Natura Studio Japan&#8217; and Deison at &#8216;1st Floor Studio Italy&#8217;. He takes credit for &#8216;field recordings, sound processing&#8217; and Null for &#8216;electronics, noise&#8217;. I can&#8217;t say anything sensible about how this worked out. Did Deison process also sound supplied by Null, or vice versa, perhaps? Or is a question of overlaying independently created sound work and see what<br>dialogue can be formed? As said, I don&#8217;t have the answer to this question. Both men are known, well perhaps to some, for their more radical sonic enterprises (although Null more than Deison), to avoid the word &#8216;noise&#8217; (as a genre, not as an instrument). While the music here isn&#8217;t necessarily<br>very quiet, it is also not the loudest and we see both gentlemen venture into the world of rhythm. Not techno-based, but rather minimalist beat stuff, inspired by the work of Pan Sonic. Interesting enough one could say the same thing about some of the more noisy outings on this release as<br>well. A piece such as &#8216;Nervi Scoperti&#8217; has some repeating sounds from a piece of vinyl that got stuck and along with that comes a bit warped electronics. Sometimes the two dwell upon a more ambient industrial\/drone soundscape, thus creating a varied dish of musical interests. It is a<br>release to play with some considerable volume, as I found out, as it will you give a slightly more presence of the music and it all shines a bit more. This is a collaboration that turned out to be great!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">YUGEN SU RUMORE<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"732\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.deison.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/81098084_10221257991547603_644029298063179776_o-732x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-783\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.deison.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/81098084_10221257991547603_644029298063179776_o-732x1024.jpg 732w, https:\/\/www.deison.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/81098084_10221257991547603_644029298063179776_o-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.deison.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/81098084_10221257991547603_644029298063179776_o-768x1074.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.deison.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/81098084_10221257991547603_644029298063179776_o-1098x1536.jpg 1098w, https:\/\/www.deison.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/81098084_10221257991547603_644029298063179776_o.jpg 1181w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 732px) 100vw, 732px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">YUGEN SU BLOW UP<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"759\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.deison.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/84281218_10221526652583961_5278638368698138624_o-759x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.deison.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/84281218_10221526652583961_5278638368698138624_o-759x1024.jpg 759w, https:\/\/www.deison.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/84281218_10221526652583961_5278638368698138624_o-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/www.deison.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/84281218_10221526652583961_5278638368698138624_o-768x1036.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.deison.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/84281218_10221526652583961_5278638368698138624_o-1139x1536.jpg 1139w, https:\/\/www.deison.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/84281218_10221526652583961_5278638368698138624_o.jpg 1181w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 759px) 100vw, 759px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEISON\/KK NULL (CD, st.an.da., 2019) Yugen by Deison | KK Null 01. Mono no aware 02. Yugen 03. A bit of nothing 04. Glow river 05. Nervi scoperti 06. Fade crack down 07. Ukiyo 08. Dialogo con le stelle morte KK Null: electronics, noise&nbsp;Deison: field recordings, sound processing Ten years after their first collaboration (\u201cInto\u201d,&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.deison.net\/index.php\/yugen\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Leggi tutto &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yugen<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-155","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deison.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deison.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deison.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deison.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deison.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.deison.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":909,"href":"https:\/\/www.deison.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/155\/revisions\/909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deison.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}