Four years in the making, ‘No2’ is a dark, deep, brooding work that sees Christina Vantzou building musical monuments that exist in the space between post-rock and neoclassical. Piano and strings combine to create richly atmospheric soundscapes.
While the compositions are built around sparing instrumentation, the moods created are deep and reflective, haunting and evocative. Edges softly blur as quivering strings hang longingly in the air, like mist on a millpond. Over the course of the album’s 11 pieces, soft ripples of strings and synths are intermittently obfuscated by washes of transient sound. Wordless vocals drift in and out, adding another layer to the subtle sonic hues Vantzou weaves. No words are needed: ‘No2’ goes beyond verbalisation and resonates on the most intensely personal level because of, rather than in spite of, its abstraction.
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Immersive and transcendent, it’s truly beautiful stuff.
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