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Vanessa Van Basten - Psygnosis
Vanessa Van Basten is a duo with various guests and contributors from the alternative and extreme italian underground scene. They make slow, heavy, metaphysic instrumental music. About influences they mention cosmic psychedelia, industrial rock like Swans or Godflesh, Neurot & Hydrahead catalogue, krautrock, norwegian black metal, Zdzisław Beksinski, HP.Lovecraft.


Two years after the critically acclaimed "La Stanza di Swedenborg" Vanessa Van Basten returns with two brand new epic tracks collected on  beautiful EP, which was written by all band members. This Italian heavy postrock ensemble don't constrict themselves to the laws of The Great Postrock Bible. In stead they blend in psychedelica, ambient influences, metal and shoegaze to result in a unique musical experience. Dreamlike and cinematographic sounds collide with heavy and dark sonic assaults: the music is incredibly crafted and reveals more of its intrinsic beauty everytime it is played. Vanessa Van Basten has kept their lo-fi attitude as the tracks were recorded in the rehearsal room and at home with the aid of a technician and feature a human drummer (no more drum computer this time) that has toured with the band in the past.

The EP comes in an oversized folded cover with a sixteen page booklet inserted and is strictly limited to 500 copies.
Author: mashenah
Translator: mashenah
Source: www.myspace.com/coungsoulingsounds / 2009-02-08 / News


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