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Review: 'SOUND AWAKENER'
'Five Chapters'   

-  Label: 'Petroglyph Music Netlabel'
-  Genre: 'Ambient' -  Release Date: '4th October 2014'

Our Rating:
Nhung Nguyen from Vietnam had a few years of private classical lessons but she now describes herself as being self-taught and has clearly departed from the classical field into Cagean experimental territory.   

Five Chapters refers to the endless search in life and this quest is realised through five improvisations recorded on an upright acoustic piano.

The opening track,Vibrate, is little more than spectral reverb while on Rememberings All Passing Things lonesome piano chords compete with field recordings of indistinct voices.

There's nothing here that remotely resembles a tune and in that sense it might have been more accurate to name the record after the track Gallery Of Emptiness.

Yet although by no stretch of the imagination could any of these sonic meanderings be described as cheery, the abstract pieces do succeed in maintaining a desolate and disquieting mood which, I suspect, is the objective.

The effect is rather like wandering around an abandoned house looking for signs of comfort but finding none.   

Sound Awakener's website
  author: Martin Raybould

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SOUND AWAKENER - Five Chapters