Onsturicheit – Waan (CD Album – Wool-E Discs)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, ambient, krautrock.
Background/Info: Peter Moorkens is a Belgian artist who is involved with music for numerous years now. He has been (and still is-) member of different bands and projects. Onsturicheit is a solo-project he’s been experimenting with for a couple of years now. He released five (!) albums nearly at the same time on Wool-E Discs, which are all part of the “Belgian NeuMusik”-series devoted to Belgian ambient artists.
Content: Peter Moorkens once started to play guitar and “Waan” brings this element back to life. But the music is also composed with an electronic arsenal and especially a passion for analogue/modular equipment. The guitar is sometimes pretty hypnotic. Some passages have been carried by slow rhythms while the electronic treatments have something space-like. You’ll also notice a few spoken samplings in Dutch.
+ + + : The main characteristic and strength of this work is the brilliant sound treatment procedure. It now and then creates a truly transcendental sensation, which might be reinforced by elevating guitar effects such as on the great “Een Godin Heeft Lippenstift”.
– – – : Some parts of the work are more experimental-like and even reminding me of the Krautrock experiments from the ‘Berliner school’, which has never been my favorite music genre.
Conclusion: “Waan” which can be translated as “Hallucination” has something intriguing and even magic! It’s an interesting introduction to the sonic universe of Onsturicheit.
Best songs: “Een Godin Heeft Lippenstift”, “Somatische Waan”, “Zondewaan”.
Rate: (7).
Artist: www.facebook.com/Onsturicheit-2000817190200670
Label: www.wool–e–discs.be / www.facebook.com/woolediscs
About Onsturicheit
Onsturicheit is the solo project of Belgian musician Peter Moorkens, born in 1965, who moved from Antwerp to Ghent and played in earlier outfits including Smeurebreud, The Moonfolks and the cassette-based Electric Loopstation before going solo with a live modular-synthesizer set. The project’s Dutch name means something untamable. In 2019, Wool-E Discs head Dimitri released five Onsturicheit albums in quick succession as part of the label’s “Belgian NeuMusik” series, later gathered in the box set “Wanneer De Herder Doolt, Zo Dolen De Schapen” (“When The Shepherd Wanders, So The Sheep Will Wander”). The series opens with “Waan” (“Hallucination”), reworked by Moorkens from a jam recorded with six Korg Volca units and built around vocal samples he set aside for a year before returning to the recording. Onsturicheit continued the same year with “Angstzweet”.
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