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Title......: Fear Falls Burning - The Infinite Sea Of Sustain

Source.....: DVD5
Format.....: NTSC
Audio......: LPCM 2.0
Video......: 4:3 Untouched
Stripped...: Nothing
Size.......: 30 x 50MB

Notes:

Fear Falls Burning is Dirk Serries' love letter to the world of electric guitar drones.
Serries, best known for his solo act VidnaObmana, launched Fear Falls Burning in
the winter of 2005 as an outlet for his fascination with lo-fi and post-rock music,
and as a way to return to his roots in drone music, where he first began 22 years ago.
By processing the sounds of his Les Paul guitars through a large and elaborately
configured collection effects pedals, Serries produces improvisational music that
is by turns meditative, rhythmic and occasionally thunderous. A typical performance
begins with a simple, sustained guitar chord. This opening sound seeds the ground from
which the entire piece is grown. As the looping and processing techniques are applied,
the music evolves, dictating the direction of the performance. It is truly an
improvisational process, but at the masterful hands of Serries, one that spins a new
and mysterious kind of music, fully infused with a rare passion and soul.

Organic variations and imperfections are spontaneously introduced, giving
the performance a rich hue of unpredictability. Looped patterns of sound rise and fall,
mutated by a succession of real-time treatments. This improvisational technique is the
defining characteristic of Fear Falls Burning. In the spring of 2005, and again in the
autumn of the same year, Serries took Fear Falls Burning on tour, performing in
Germany, The Netherlands and Belgium. The shows were all recorded, and the best
performances were chosen for release. Originally envisioned as a boxed set of six
CDs, "The Infinite Sea of Sustain" morphed into a single DVD containing more than
4-1/2 hours of music. Each of the six performances is a single, uninterrupted
improvisational composition, accompanied on screen by an abstract live photograph
from the concerts; these are not music videos, and there is no motion picture footage.
It's all about taking advantage of the DVD format as a more cost-conscious
and convenient way of presenting the music, and it plays in any standard DVD
player. For best sound we recommend playback through a stereo sound system.
An on-screen menu allows listeners to play the entire collection or choose individual
concerts, but the use of a television is optional. Simply hit  Play  on your remote
to start the program. "The Infinite Sea of Sustain" is a special release,
and naturally the packaging reflects its special status. In keeping with
Soleilmoon's uncompromising standards this DVD is presented in a stunning
5 x 8 inch (12.5 x20.5 cm) folder made from hand-processed wood grain paper.
The paper was custom made for Soleilmoon by Shantilal & Sons of Bombay,
India, and no two copies are alike. The texture is an unbelievably fluid vision
of wood; mere words cannot do it justice. A screen-printed insert and three postcards
rest with the disc in a pocket inside of the folder, and an o-band on the outside
holds the whole package together. Limited to 500 copies.

Concert 1: CC Luchtbal, Antwerp (Belgium), October 29th 2005.
Concert 2: Staalplaat, Berlin (Germany), May 14th 2005.
Concert 3: Catharinakapel, Harderwijk (Netherlands), October 22nd 2005.
Concert 4: Tanzhaus West, Frankfurt (Germany), May 18th 2005.
Concert 5: Kulturbunker Müllheim, Köln (Germany), May 12th 2005.
Concert 6: AZ Conni, Dresden (Germany), October 12th 2005.

Tracklisting:
1 	  	Biding The Storm With Gaze (49:03)
2 	  	The Wretched Heart In Oblivion (41:34)
3 	  	The Place To Which We Now Came (55:57)
4 	  	Glowing Clouds Out Of My Own Fiery Throat (35:56)
5 	  	Death Shall Have No Dominion (52:45)
6 	  	The Echo That Bursts The Ear (45:20)

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