61 minutes, 34 seconds

Vidna Obmana
Monument of Empty Colours

Early Vidna Obmana, a.k.a. Dirk Serries, Belgian ambient composer of some renown. (Um, at least among people who like ambient music from Belgium.) These particular pieces, assembled on the first disc of the Memories Compiled compilation for the Projekt label, were recorded with American expermentalist PBK.

They're quiet, floating pieces, to be sure, but they contain a bit of a burr. This isn't quite the soothing, almost medicinal ambient music Obmana would later create for his three-disc Trilogy release. In fact, you can hear the transition here from some of the more industrial, noisy work captured on his Anthology 1984-2004 compilation.

In any case, why am I telling you all this before 6 a.m. on a Saturday morning? (Yes, check the time stamp below.) I couldn't sleep, that's why. Ever since the stupid daylight saving time change, my sleeping habits have been off-kilter. But we moved the clocks ahead, so you'd think I'd sleep later, not wake up earlier. Weird. And the real bummer is that daylight itself (that phenomenon we're supposed to be saving) is still more than an hour away.

Also today:

61:33 Misericordia & Gaïta, Eschewynge of Ydlenesse
61:33 Mortiis, Crypt of the Wizard
61:31 Fin de Siècle, Présences
61:31 Suicide Commando, Chromdioxyde 1
61:31 Television Overdose, Terrestrial Broadcast
New arrival! 68:36 Skadi, Eliwagar
61:31 Various artists, Hopes Die in Winter
61:29 Project Pitchfork, Inferno