Bleep

Amazing musique concrete compositions on Recollection GRM from this former Institute of Sonology professor. Vink was one of the pioneering Dutch composers inaugurated into the shadowy world of tape manipulation and late nights spent in front of early synthesisers, eventually teaching at the IOS until his retirement in 1993. Far from just an interesting slice of history, these compositions run deep with a strikingly emotive angle which can be hard to find in this field. Modulators, filters and countless cases of tape manipulation blend together to create long form drone excursions like the closing piece ‘Tide 85’. Far from ‘academic’ music, this is an album that will hold appeal to fans of modern electronic acts such as Vatican Shadow or Raime.