DIRK SERRIES – TREASURE OF STARS
A Streams of Consciousness Album
Out on Projekt Records : bandcamp on February 25 and all other sources on February 28 :
https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/treasure-of-stars-streams-of-consciousness
1. Soft Rain
2. Other Transformations
3. Weathering The Gale
4. Treasure Of Stars
All streams performed and recorded at the home studio throughout 2024, exclusively for Projekt Records.
Ds : electric guitar, effects
www.dirkserries.com
streamsofconsciousness.bandcamp.com
The Streams Of Consciousness series is home for Dirk Serries’ gleaming solo ambient work. With over 40 years of sonic experimentation — including his many albums as VidnaObmana — Dirk’s Treasure Of Stars is a return to his trademark melancholic ambient dwellings. Created in real-time on electric guitar and a handful of effects, it’s a shimmering slowflow exploration of textures and emotional states. Transcendent and esoteric soundscapes facilitate moments of solitary reflection.
Projekt’s 2024 release, Streams Of Consciousness Compiled, was such a success with the label’s fanbase that the decision was easily made to return with a new album exclusively recorded for Projekt. The serene tones and expansive – yet mysterious – atmospheres are constructed live, solely on the electric guitar. Individual notes and reverberating washes ebb and flow over the course of these longform pieces.
For those who wished VidnaObmana was still around releasing albums, the wait it over. This release invites repeated listenings as one is gently rocked by warm, starlit washes of sound.
Press excerpts from 2024:
• A slowflow inner exploration of sonics and emotional states… Dirk Serries’ homage and return to pure harmonic sonic moments. This music is purely ‘in-the-moment’ ambient.
• The sounds here are gentle ambiance, with slow-moving chord patterns, airy textures, and a peaceful mood.
• Despite the apparent simplicity of the music, it resonates deeply on an emotional level, inviting the listener to engage in relaxed, thoughtful introspection.
• Serries constructs serene soundscapes that facilitate moments of solitary reflection. He engages with the notion that the notes you do not play can be just as important as the notes that are played, thus using space as an auxiliary instrument.
• At time while listening I feel like I’m floating in deep space, at others that I am a piece of driftwood being gently rocked by ocean waves, and at still others it’s as if I’m lying stretched out in the grass, the sun gently warming my face as I watch puffy white clouds slowly drifting by.
• Slow flowing evolutionary washes of sonic color full of warmth and emotion