Urawa captures the nether-world that is somewhere between dreaming and
being awake. The listener must participate and follow the path created for
them -- Music for lucid dreaming or for an isolation tank.

Keywords: space...haze...noise...patterns...texture...floating.



Urawa consists of Olivier Moreau and John Sellekaers. Together they are responsible for Torsion (Re-Load Ambient) and Ambre (Ant-Zen). Olivier is known from Imminent (Ant-Zen), whereas John incarnates the projects Xingu Hill (Hymen), Dead Hollywood Stars, Ammo, Logatomistes... For Villa Vertigo the two got help from Hervé Thomas, who created Fragile and Hint. 

After a first release on Nova Zembla in 1995, Urawa is back with a totally different approach of sound. 'Villa Vertigo' is an architectural bad dream, guiding the listener through an imaginary deserted residence. Slowly evolving, deep and subtle textures seem to come from inside the different rooms, making the whole building become a soundscape. 

Organic sounds, together with mechanical vibrations, express the villa's peculiar rhythm. Plants and light become sound in the greenhouse. In the study a clock vainly tries to say that time is important. Your feet pound on the stairs, but it could also be the other way round. In the lounge you are called by those that attended the last cocktail party ages ago. 

'Villa Vertigo' combines minimalism with ambient, as well as it combines minimalism with more noisy and unclean parts, thereby slightly suggesting the background of its musical creators. Although the undercooled soundwaves form a familiar impression after a while, they never lead to a definite structure.

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