{"id":11703,"date":"2025-06-05T19:11:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T18:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11703"},"modified":"2025-06-05T19:11:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T18:11:29","slug":"haarvols-horizons-of-suspended-zones-reviewed-by-vital-weekly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11703","title":{"rendered":"Haarv\u00f6l\u2019s \u201cHorizons of Suspended Zones\u201d reviewed by Vital Weekly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cronicaelectronica.org\/238\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/cronica238-2025_1440-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11704\" style=\"width:521px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/cronica238-2025_1440-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/cronica238-2025_1440-260x260.jpg 260w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/cronica238-2025_1440-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/cronica238-2025_1440-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/cronica238-2025_1440.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Among my favourite drone groups is Haarv\u00f6l, a trio of two musicians (Jos\u00e9 Pereira and Jo\u00e3o Faria) and Rui Manuel Vieira, who handles the visual side. I don&#8217;t know what that looks like, as I never saw them in concert (or looked on YouTube). Their latest album is inspired by a book by Hakim Bey from the late 1990s, &#8220;about the then-emerging possibility of the virtual. With the lucidity for which he is known, he recognised at the time that the virtual was nothing more than a new avenue for expanding capitalism. He introduced the concept of temporary autonomous zones as a kind of Foucauldian heterotopia \u2014 spaces that existed only for as long as they could evade capture.&#8221; Of course, things got way more radical than that; just look around you. The music here is the opposite of more of everything; it is less of everything. Six lengthy pieces, each about ten minutes of slow music, heavy on the ambience, drones and atmospherics. I hope I am not as attached to screens, buttons, and more of everything (except for reading books on my iPad), and I like slow and quiet music more than loud music, and Haarv\u00f6l tick all those boxes. It&#8217;s not to say each of these six pieces is just a few tones sustaining on end. Far from! Each piece is a multi-layered event of sustaining tones, but with shorter samples, voices, bell sounds and more melodic stuff, which makes this a delightful trip. I think I called their previous release &#8216;The Uncanny Organisation Of Timeless Time&#8217; their best work to date, but I&#8217;d like to add &#8216;Horizons Of Suspended Zones&#8217; as a contender. It is a highly varied disc of some abstract ambient, meeting more melodic touches. Excellent! (FdW)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vitalweekly.net\">Vital Weekly<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among my favourite drone groups is Haarv\u00f6l, a trio of two musicians (Jos\u00e9 Pereira and Jo\u00e3o Faria) and Rui Manuel Vieira, who handles the visual side. I don&#8217;t know what that looks like, as I never saw them in concert (or looked on YouTube). Their latest album is inspired by a book by Hakim Bey &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11703\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Haarv\u00f6l\u2019s \u201cHorizons of Suspended Zones\u201d reviewed by Vital Weekly&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[609,292],"class_list":["post-11703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-609","tag-haarvol","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11705,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11703\/revisions\/11705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}