When Carsten Nicolai and Ryuichi Sakamoto got together to record 2003’s highly acclaimed "Vrioon", it probably hadn’t occurred to them that they were single-handedly re-positioning minimal piano music at the head of the electronic food chain. Sure, Richard D James introduced his army of devotees to the works of Satie on his sprawling "Drukqs", but "Vrioon" managed to intigrate the discipline into something altogether new and unfamiliar. Coupled with the fact that it was impossibly hard to obtain in good quantity in this country and that it was released by the boundry-pushing design team at Raster Noton, "Vrioon" was cited as a classic more or less as soon as it hit the shelves, eventually championed by The Wire as the best electronic release in their coveted year-end poll. To imagine that a follow-up might match the transparent loveliness of the original, not to mention transcend its soul-searching beauty, would, at best, seem unlikely. And yet as soon as you hear the opening, lonely notes of the incredible "Aurora" you realise that the pair have once again realised an ambition to embed complex discpilines into a sound that’s so unbearably archetypal and moving you can’t imagine anyone even approaching it’s masterful grasp of all things sublime. "Insen" finds Carsten Nicolai treating Ryuichi Sakamoto’s cascading piano compositions with a surgeon’s hand, embelishing notes and melody with a tapestry of digital emissions and breakages that seem to envelop the whole album with a reflective neon glow, becoming a vessel for all the emotions and memories each and every listener to this amazing work will no doubt find hard to control. "Insen" is not only a worthy sequel but a re-imagined companion piece to "Vrioon", an album that simply cannot fail to become one of your most cherished poseesions as soon as it’s unwrapped. Incredible.
[boomkat.com]

Autor: Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto
Title: Insen
Year: 2005
Genre: Electronic Avant-Ambient
Label: Raster- Noton
Total Time: 43:19
Grabber: EAC v0.95 pb5
Codec: Mokeys Audio v3.99
Compression: Eac -> APE -> Cue -> Log
Size: 185.01 MB
Extras: Covers, Cue, Log

Tracklist:
1. aurora 08:50
2. morning 05:26
3. logic moon 06:48
4. moon 06:06
5. berlin 06:11
6. iano 06:48
7. avaol 02:52