Vision Creation Newsun

Boredoms | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 6, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Birdman
• ASIN: B00005176M
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,434 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

On Vision Creation Newsun, the Boredoms continue to pursue the phoenixlike transformation first revealed on 1998's Super Ae, rising from rock's modern primitives to become elemental prog-mired magi. This nine-track song cycle features symbols for titles. The 13-minute opening track is an epic paean to new-eon sun worship that centers on a circular rock riff, a firestorm of free-form tribal drums, and snatches of Beach Boys-style vocal harmonies that burn out in a haze of sweeping analogue synths. It sets the tone for what is to follow. Successive tracks bleed blissfully into one another, an ebb and flow of elemental energy riding successive waves of distortion and clear blue sound. Time signatures are perverted with phase and delay. Like the movement of a tape loop around the spools, the slack is reined into a tight merciless groove backing lunar chants and solar madrigals. So expansive it literally defies description, Vision Creation Newsun provides an infinitely rewarding listening experience. --Chris Campion

Product Description

Regular CD version of the current boredoms album (previously issued as a deluxe 2CD in a oversize box-which is now deleted). 'Vision Creation Newsun' follows 'Super Are' with additional funkiness and space-time continuosity. It's funk, trance, drum 'n' bass and psychedelic. Standard jewel case. 2001 release.

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Customer Reviews

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth Every Penny!, December 15, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Vision Creation New Sun (Limited Edition (Audio CD)

A lovingly crafted box of goodies, by far the best release of 1999--you get, in addition to two extremely long CDs full of music, a T-shirt,and a colorful sticker. To top it off a the box itself produces frog noises sampled from the jungles of the amazon when exposed to light.

Boredoms have created organic trance music that startles the mind. Very danceable, the album itself is essentially one long meditation on the sun, earth, and nature. The second disc is available only in the limited release and comprises live recordings of selections from the album.

Packaging is designed by Naohiro Ukawa who is at the forefront of creativity in Tokyo with his own Mom'nDad productions.

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Boredoms are super Good., October 30, 2001

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"donkeye" (all up in your face) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Vision Creation Newsun (Audio CD)

So many Boredoms fans fell apart like little popscicle monkeys when suddenly, with Super Ae, it became entirely clear that the group had left behind the avant-noise, John Zorn-style jazz that made them famous. They were at their height (Pop Tatari) the most frightening, confusing, and amazing rock band on the planet. They opened for Nirvana and Sonic Youth and reportedly bested the bands. Audiences howled like rhesus monkeys.

Let me now suddenly abruptly jump to 2000 and this album Vision Creation New Sun, which is the greatest album of their careers. Thank our lucky stars that Boredoms have left behind their old style. How many more albums like that did they need to do? Why is it so upsetting to some people when a band grows and redefines itself. It is hard for me to see how this album is a disappointment to anyone. It's an absolute marvel.

This, effectively, is a religious artifact. These Boredoms are desperately whirling towards some kind of psychedelic heaven. The music is at once subtle and sensible and reverential, as well as intense, thundering, primal, and deeply deeply unconscious. A person could get lost in this like some kind of Sufi experiment. This is a cooked album.

When I heard this album I bawled like I'd just made a breakthrough in therapy. Long lost memories vaulted back into my face, and I fell to the wall-to-wall carpet and curled up in a fetal ball and wept for the greatness of the world to take pity on me.

Boredoms are God. I know this now.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars the angel of the abyss reveals her beautiful face, May 27, 2003

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happydogpotatohead "happydogpotatohead" (New Orleans, LA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Vision Creation Newsun (Audio CD)

In essence this is a sixty-seven minute and 43 second-long pagan religious ceremony, held on an alien planet, performed by metahumans who may or may not have been descended from earthlings. At least that's what it sounds like.

You could get picky and specific, and say, yes, they've been listening to Amon Duul II, Can, and early Ash Ra Tempel, but there's a fearlessness to this that makes the Boredoms more spiritual contemporaries of these bands than mere imitators. The Boredoms are no longer interested in breaking things or rattling walls; they've already done that. The Boredoms want Heaven and they want it Now, and if they cannot enter it they will create it by sheer will.

It's hard to describe this kind of music. "Vision Creation Newsun" is an Experience in a high sense. It is Magick. There is focus and intent, and that intent is pure transcendence. The best way to experience "Vision Creation Newsun" is to sit down in front of your stereo and commit yourself to it completely, just throw yourself into the dazzling, dizzying alternate universe of sound that they present. You will soon understand why there are no titles. The music does not need titles. It just *is*. That is all you need to know.