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Vision Creation Newsun

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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.

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.

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.

Of course, the Boredoms aren't a jam band. They are noise punk band that evolved into a full fledge cult of THE ROCK, dedicated to achieving harmonic convergence through heavily flanged guitars. Mainly because the alternative, prayer, is boring.

Vision Creation Newsun is what you listen to before any thorny task. It vibrates your flaccid mind into full gleaming steel. It's joyous, but scary Apollonian joy, the kind where you enter a trance and rip a goat appart with your bare hands, then come down to mundane domains of conscience only to find yourself standing in line at Safeway with a tub of Redvines at 2:00 am, covered in goat . So, if your uncomfortable with Altered States-like evolutionary transformation, stick with your Mudvayne.

Vision Creation Newsun follows the new course the boredoms took with Super Are into long rock-trance sonic collages. I don't know of any other music produced today that is simultaneously so experimental and exciting. Although miles apart stylistically, Vision Creation Newsun excites and uplifts the listener in the same fashion as the John Coltrane Quartet did. You really don't care how long the songs are, because every second is bursting with energy and creativity. My favorite album from this year.

What came before it is not important when judging this release.What it might be accused of borrowing from is greatly expanded on.What might of inspired it is certainly celebrated.

This album is a religious experience. Either you practice at this temple or you don't. Make no mistakes...this music is divine to many.

P.S.If you are trying these guys out for the first time(and are not the "avant-tarde" type)expect to hear a new take on what makes "a song".

Boredoms' Super AE record revealed their new path,at least 2 songs in,you knew they were learning to focus their manic energy.

I look at Super AE as the launch,the takeoff from primitive Earth,whereas with VisionCreationNewsun we are streaking through the atmoshphere up into the heavens and occasionally touching down on alien planets,for a jam.

This album is full of sublime psychedelic colors,primal Day-Glo tribal rock,the whole thing moves along from "song"to"song",some melodies and phrases repeated later in the album,at different speeds and textures.While I have favorites,this is a fantastic album to be absorbed all at once.

Plenty of people have songs,albums,artwork,bible verse,etc.that gives them great pleasure and fills them with hope.Some people think this album boring,that's ok.They've got theirs,and some of us have this.Some may wonder why various reviews of this ablum so often veer into pro-psychedelic discourse and near religious admiration.What can I say,I believe in the purity of this album,the joy it is meant to produce.

I don't believe Boredoms' constructed this thing with dollar signs in their eyes.It is a reflection of their personal/spiritual progression,as evidenced by the similar psyche/ambient/we-don't have to try so hard/shock anymore-flavor of most of Boredoms'members other recent projects.

Once again,Boredoms manage to confound,amaze,disappoint and shock people with each release.The only question is can you ride THIS ship?

If you have been listening to the Boredoms for a long time, you know that just about everything they do is great! This album is a wonderful example. It has a powerful overall sound with very percussive drum work, thick guitar and bass sound with a mix of good melodies, lots of psychadelic sounding electronics, samples, and wonderful production overall to give this album such a unique sound! The first song is a very tribal, energetic song filled with percussion and vocalist "Eye" and the rest of the band chanting "VISION!, CREATION!, NEWSUN!" A great way to start out a album! The song is about 14 minutes long and the rest of the songs average about 6,7 minutes each and are very hipnotic, trance like, powerful, and filled with energy!! The Boredoms are evolving! Every album they have put out, is unique and different in its own way, which of course makes this band one of a kind. If you are a fan of the Boredoms, don't miss out on this one! It's just as cool as their older stuff like "Chocolate Synthesizer" which is my favorite! If you haven't listened to the Boredoms before, grab anyone of their albums. They won't let you down! GO BOREDOMS!!

This is a great place to start. Not as screamingly bombastic and noisy as some (pop tatari, or chocolate synth), and not as elongate and hypnotic as some (sea drum...), and with enough complexity and variation to keep your attention (some of the roots cds are a bit boring boredoms).
There's some great rumbling driving rhythmic stuff, as you'd expect, there's bird noises over waves of shimmering sorta trippy hypnotic dreamy stuff, there's pure ecstasy rave type tracks as well.

All in all a nice beginner's break in to the art of the boredoms.

A friend tried to turn me on to the Boredoms with their first album, about 10 years ago. At the time, I didn't get it. Their sheer wall of chaos just flattened me, never gave me a chance to catch my breath and enjoy it. Over the course of the 1990s, I occasionally heard new Boredoms records and made note of the fact that they were gradually becoming a little less chaotic and more listenable. Then, sometime last year I read a review of Super AR. (Or is it Super AE? Super ARE? The mind boggles!) Based on said review, I bought it. While the Boredoms always seemed to put forth a more or less "positive" vibe with their music (i.e. they never sound depressed or angsty or angry,) they've always sounded to me like they're just enjoying the hell out of going absolutely bananas with musical [and sometimes non-musical] instruments, Super AR was a major change. It sounds like what I can only describe as a celebration of life. Vision Creation Newsun continues the theme, even more literally. Very uplifting and invigorating. Still chaotic and odd at times, but always pleasing to the ear. Majestic. I recommend Vision Creation Newsun and Super AR even to people who weren't won over by their earlier efforts.