Nul, by Clarinette

Nul

by Clarinette

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Nul was a double album of drone pieces released as a limited and numbered edition of 105 double CD on Cassetto Editions in 2010. It is dedicated to the late New Zealand artist Julian Dashper.

It is now being made available with the two additional discs (1 hr, 57 min) of material that made up the edition of 9 copies boxed set "Nul: Deluxe Edition". This was done as a box with all albums up to Nul, a four disc version of Nul, Network Transmissions, a painting, some art pieces and papers in a cigar box handpainted with the Nul artwork. Without realizing it, I later repurposed a track called "?" as "Korla Ascending" on the album "Ready Set Disengage 2013" and its subsequent deluxe reissue, oops! "Korla Ascending" is the more fitting title, I suppose sometimes a track needs a ? on it while it awaits an identity.

[The title is a nod to the Nul art collective who formed in Holland in 1960 having been strongly influenced by the German Zero movement. Working with a mono- or di-chromatic palette, Nul embraced repetition and reproduction, seeking to validate reality by isolating it's parts and displaying them without form, context or subjective judgment.]

Thanks to Shannon Vallor, Antony Milton, Josh Pollack, DJ Female Convict Scorpion, Gil Ray, Campbell Kneale, Nul and Zero.

The original concept for Nul began with the recording of ( ). Recorded as a B flat drone, it was conceived as a contribution to Antony Milton's Psuedoarcana compilation "The Tone of the Universe (= The Tone of the Earth)" which collects drone oriented pieces from around the world with the pretext that the universe emits a vibrating tone in B flat. The track ( ) was originally titled "Sphere" but was folded into Nul from the beginning as it was too late and too long to be considered for "The Tone of the Universe (= The Tone of the Earth)".

Aquarius said of Nul upon release:
So now we have yet another double album (no over the top tape edition for this one sadly), from Mr. Dan Vallor, aka Clarinette, this one according to the liner notes, dedicated to sixties Dutch art collective Nul, who in turn were influenced by the German Zero Movement, based on, again according to the liner notes "Working with a mono- or di-chromatic palette" and embracing "repetition and reproduction, seeking to validate reality by isolating its parts and displaying them without form, context or subjective judgment".
Thankfully, you don't actually need a degree in art history to dig into Clarinette's gorgeous minimal soundworld, fans of the now out of print The Clarinette Anti-Cassette Act Of 2012 will definitely want to grab one of these before they're gone, and anyone into spaced out minimal abstraction, and lush layered dronescapery will find much to love here, long tones, lush landscapes of subtly shifting overtones, dark and soporific, thick and heavy in a slow motion black whole drift sort of way, funereal and elegiac in places, blurred and blackened in others, and almost blissed out and kosmische in still others. The final track on the first disc unfurls a sprawl of low end that given the proper stereo might just set off car alarms several blocks away, a dense pulsing thrum that even in headphones is so deep and thick it almost makes you dizzy.

The second disc offers up more epic longform dronescapes, and listening to them here, it's easy to understand why some early Clarinette records ended up on Campbell Kneale's Celebrate Psi Phenomenon label, definitely a Birchville vibe going on, a sort of smeared softly psychedelic blissed out raga, that on one track can explode in a prismatic burst of high end Sunroof!-like skree, while on another, gradually blossom like a time-lapse filmstrip of a dying star.
Gorgeous hypnotic stuff. And again, ULTRA limited. Only 105 copies, each one hand numbered, and housed in striking hand painted green sleeves.

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released January 1, 2010

Music by Dan Vallor

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Clarinette Edinburgh, UK

Clarinette began making tapes for broadcast on KPFA's "Assassinatin' Rhythm" in the mid-80's, in time the project went dormant until some tapes were found in 1999. One of those tapes made it to Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore who asked to release an LP. Tapes from those early years along with newly recorded material were released in 2002 as Haze. Clarinette has been an active recording project since. ... more

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