Dirk Serries
Dirk Serries, born in Belgium in 1968, has spent four decades circling the same idea from different directions: the long tone and what happens inside it. Between 1984 and 2007 he worked as Vidna Obmana, a Serbian phrase meaning optical illusion, and made some of the most widely heard European ambient and drone records of those years, often with Steve Roach, Asmus Tietchens or Bass Communion.
Aliases: Fear Falls Burning, Vidna Obmana
I\'m One Of Those Monsters Numb With Grace
James Brown had the nick-name ‘the Hardest-Working Man in Show Business’. Dirk Serries from Belgium must be one of the hardest working men of the ambient music scene. From the mid 80’s on he filled dozens of albums with atmospheric music under the na…
Suspended feathers
1996 release ** Edition of 1000 hand-numbered copies. CD in a card sleeve held in an A5 (150x200mm) wraparound card folder. "Rarely an album comes along that elicits so many different feelings one is left speechless. Suspended Feathers achieves such …
We Slowly Lift Ourselves From Dust
This is a set of 28 minutes of new music by Fear Falls Burning for the Italian A Silent Place label. Per side Fear Falls Burning explores, as the title would suggest, the darker and nihilistic regions of his drone music. Minimal repetitive motives wh…
The rainbow mirrors a burning heart
Fear Falls Burning - With all the power, noise, aggression and subtlety that comes from a single man performing real-time on the electric guitar through a maze of pedal effects, notes and chords shifting and multiplying over time into dense and tranc…
