There is a secluded area in our souls that is most beautiful and yet terrifying. It is the place that allows us to touch the untouchable, to briefly move the filmy veil that shields our existence from unreality. It is the location of secrets and the hiding place of death. You can visit it often enough but you can never get a full glimpse of it. You can reach out and grasp what you feel or see yet never possess it long enough to satisfy your longing.

Lovesliescrushing’s latest recording is the perfect soundtrack to this shadowed region of our lives. And it is beautiful in every way. Choosing selected white noise and building around it with an electronic symphony, Scott Cortez’s most stylized recording to date mesmerizes and captures the imagination. With eerie and haunting familiarity, “voirshn”, is the troubled and stirred soundwaves that emanate from the misted expanse we are unable to live in.

There are uneven clicks that produce a rhythmic quality enhanced by notes of sadness. There are scratchy white noises of emptiness filled with swarming and ethereal choirs that are far too beautiful to classify. Whatever noise is chosen, although centralized, it’s enveloped by a concerto of swirling tranquility.

Lovesliescrushing’s work may be characterized by some as ambient noise but the point would have been missed. Elusive, the sphere of thought and philosophy, the nether location of memory, is a very real place, a touchstone for people that go beyond normal everyday activity. Lovesliescrushing’s “voirshn” is a superlative work of musical qualities that blend the twilight of contemplation with the sounds of its energies.

The set consists of 10 uniquely different pieces that can accompany any inward journey and do it with intent and majesty. It won’t work for everybody but not everybody chooses to part those veils for even a glimpse.

Scott Cortez’s alter ego, lovesliescrushing, makes the travel to introspection and memories a pleasant trip. But he does it with an ear to the darkness that is the true component of those places in our souls. A necessary work of force.

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voirshn

Released: 2002
Origination Year: 2002
Time: 55:13
Tracks: 10
Produced by: Scott Cortez
Engineered by: Scott Cortez
Mastered by: N/A
Style: Studio
Format: CD
Enhancement: None
Label: Projekt
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