The Third in our series of exposes on Ambient Music deals with Vidna Obmana.
Belgian electronic musician Vidna Obmana is perhaps one of the field's most prolific and widely respected musicians. The moniker Vidna Obmana was chosen by this Belgian composer for his musical persona as a means to subjucating his own personaility to that of the music itself (
vidna obmana literally translates from the Belgian as 'optical illusion'. Seventeen years hence, Vidna Obmana still finds this name allows him a sense of freedom to place his music first before his own personality and philosophy.
As a self-taught electronic musician, Vidna Obmana explored different musical realms before discovering the techniques of looping and shaping harmonies, merging layers of sound while minimizing the configurations to just a few notes. His style of atmospheric music creates almost trance-inducing states. Embracing the challenge to leap into unknown and uncharted terrain, Vidna Obmana has refined his minimalistic sound-sculpting while expanding the range of rhythms and performance on various acoustic instruments, like the fascinating Slovakian Fujara (and over-tone flute) and combining his array of electronic soundscapes with organic sounds and textures.
Partial Discography:
Gathering In Frozen Beauty (Cass) Decade Collection 1989
Monument Of Empty Colours (Cass) Decade Collection 1989
Near The Flogging Landscape (Cass) Violet Glass Oracle Tapes 1990
Revealed By Composed Nature (LP) Decade Collection 1990
Fragment 3 (Cass) N D 1991
Passage In Beauty (CD) Decade Collection 1991
Refined On Gentle Clouds (Cass) Direction Music 1991
Shadowing In Sorrow (CD) Decade Collection 1992
Untitled (CD) Syrenia 1992
Echoing Delight (CD, Album) Extreme 1993
Ending Mirage (CD) N D 1993
Parallel Flaming (CD) Multimood 1993
Revealed By Composed Nature (CD) Hic Sunt Leones 1993
Soundtrack Voor Het Aquarium (CD, Album) Antwerp Zoo 1993
Memories Compiled 1 (2xCD, Album, RM, Dig) Relic 1994
Still Fragments (CD) N D 1994
The Spiritual Bonding (2xCD) Extreme 1994
The Spiritual Bonding (CD, Album) Extreme 1994
The Transcending Quest (CD, Mini, Ltd) Amplexus 1994
Twilight Of Perception (CD) Relic 1995
Ending Mirage (CD, Album, RM) Relic 1996
Shadowing In Sorrow (CD, Album, RM) Relic 1996
The Trilogy (3xCD, Album, RM + Box) Relic 1996
Amplexus: The Collected Works (CD) Projekt 1997
Crossing The Trail (CD) Projekt 1998
Landscape In Obscurity (CD) Hypnos 1999
Memories Compiled 2 (2xCD) Relic 1999
Motives For Recycling (2xCD) Soleilmoon Recordings 1999
The Shape of Solitude (CD) Multimood 1999
True Stories (CD) Mirage (3) 1999
Variations For Organ, Keyboard And Processors (CD) Multimood 1999
Echo Passage (CD) Musica Maxima Magnetica 2000
The Contemporary Nocturne (CD) Hypnos 2000
The Surreal Sanctuary (CD) Hypnos 2000
Live At 1654 - The Cave (VHS) Not On Label 2001
Soundtrack For The Aquarium (2xCD) Hypnos 2001
Subterranean Collective (2xCD) Projekt 2001
Tremor (CD) Release Entertainment 2001
Deep Unknown (CD) Brannanlane.com Music 2002
In The Mouth Of The Reptile (File, MP3) ZNS Tapes 2002
Isolation Trip / Path Of Distortion (7") Klanggalerie 2002
The Shifts Recyclings (2xCD) Soleilmoon Recordings 2002
Spore (CD) Release Entertainment 2003
Tracers (CD) Klanggalerie 2003
Anthology 1984-2004 (CD) Projekt, Ikon (3) 2004
Legacy (CD) Release Entertainment 2004
Gluttony (CD) Hands Productions 2005
Greed (CD) Hands Productions 2006
The River Of Appearance (10th Anniversary 2CD edition) (2xCD) Projekt 2006
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