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In the most positive of ways. Musically, the inability to be classified is something Weltschmerzen holds in highest regard.
DEVEQUT is URNβs third solo album, and his first collaboration with Weltschmerzen. It offers multiple modes of listening. It could be Christmas music, or an album that you listen to driving through a barren winter country, a desolate mountain pass, or by a fireplace. Not an electronic album, neither an acoustic one. Not entirely jazz or trap, butβ¦ there is just so much gleaming through.
Depth and shadows.
Jakub Volovar is a long-recurring persona on the Slovak experimental music scene. Back in the early 2010s, blasting guitars in π«πππ ππ πͺπππ, the most uncompromising sludge band at that time; which later disbands to bring Volovar and Peter Kusnirik (drums) back together in the most beautiful, dreamy yet resolute, and especially - ππππππππ - post-jazz trio π°ππππππππππ (with Alex Strapkova on the piano). Departing their ways after 3 EPs for URN to finally release his first 2 solo albums on the Czech label Stoned to Death in 2019 and 2020.
There is definitely doom in all of URNβs music. However, itβs so skilfully arranged that it never emerges into prominence. Unlike so many artists who hide their lack of skills // content behind cheap gloom, noise and heaviness, here, doom // weltschmerz only shines through in subtlety. And it is what URN manages in excellence.
credits
released November 17, 2022
all tracks composed, mixed and mastered by URN.
cover design by folding cave.
the release of this album has been supported using public funding by the Slovak Arts Council.
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