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Another TRIOC Review

2012-01-27T09:07:00.004+02:00

Here’s a nice flowing ambient album from the Small Doses camp – meaning that the artwork and design is top-notch. The design features symmetrical glitchy computer graphics multiplied to a thousand and cut to hell. Kind of strange because the sounds here are anything but reflective of the art work.
Dense beds of sounds – sometimes harmonic and sometimes noisy – are layered into a 30 minute exercise in ambient drone with some industrial influence here as the track grows. Meandering guitar that is featured quite prominently makes this material remind me a lot of Tribes of Neurot which is a compliment because they are one of my favorite projects. The delivery of ambient atmospheres is consistent throughout with the industrial elements being just enough to add a sinister edge, yet at the same time keeping things atmospheric.
Although The Ritual Inclusion of Code is one long track, it has movements like it is split into 3 tracks. The last part of the album are more electronic with little guitar influence yet still features a nice mix of airy beds, electronic pulses and haunting pitched drones. The track moves along nicely and evolves where it needs to.
This is a solid effort and great show of care and consideration for the composition. As my first exposure to the project I would say they have a lot of potential and have created a full recording with impressive breadth and depth.

Funny TRIOC Review

2012-01-25T14:28:00.000+02:00

The review below reminded me of the days back when I recorded my very first demo. Everyone felt extremely pissed off and offended for one reason or another and they just wanted to trash it down all while not knowing what they really wanted to say. Nevertheless a very enjoyable read.

The Inarguable

There's a special category of artist I'd never quite realized existed until I began thinking about this release. They don't have a name, a manifesto, or self-serving documentaries. They're the "intellectual metal kid's noise artists."
I could certainly include artists like Locrian in this, and they may be a good entry point. They're great. They do half-black metal now, but back in the day they were the building, fulfilling wave of sound that you could find blessing scattered metal shows around Chicago. They're into noise, they're into metal, and they're not quite metal, so the metal kids think they're a noise band. (Just to be clear, they're not.)
20.Sv and Deadwood are the side of this I've never quite understood. They bill themselves as harsh noise. 20.Sv in particular had a big publicity stunt in the metal scene (see where I'm going with this?) getting allegedly declared a terrorist act in Lebanon. But while I've run into metalheads enthusing over these noise artists again and again, both Daniel Jansson (Deadwood) and Osman Arabi (20.Sv) make a sort of muted, almost ambient expression of soft, round static. They're quiet and soothing, even if you play them "loud as hell."
Locrian's labelmates on small doses, The Ritual Inclusion of Code is apparently a collaboration between Deadwood and 20.Sv. Alone, they always just disappointed me. Together, they make me think "Oh, I could do this on a laptop. And I wouldn't be proud of it or try to release it." Beta Wave Nemisis (do they realize that's a spelling error?) sounds like my early, incompetent noise project made halfway into ambient with Audacity reverb and delay. There are actually childish clean guitar noodles partway through, an example of aesthetic self-undermining that even I never stooped to.
Big names don't mean real music.

Digital Documentation of The New 20.SV Album

2012-01-23T23:20:00.002+02:00

Online documentation of the new 20.SV album:

http://20svdocumentation.blogspot.com/

Heathen Harvest Feature

2011-12-26T10:44:00.002+02:00

My first "proper" interview in almost three years

R E A D

Eridanus Supervoid

2011-12-12T16:56:00.001+02:00

Wounds of the Earth Compilation IV: Eridanus Supervoid

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TRIOC - ZERO TOLERANCE REVIEW

2011-12-04T22:26:00.001+02:00

The Droning Black Snake - Live

2011-11-28T15:35:00.001+02:00

Live at the Unified Field, Beirut, June 2011

2011-10-29T14:52:00.000+03:00

Photo Credit: Karim Atoui

The Droning Black Snake

2011-09-30T14:37:00.000+03:00

Knock On Wood - October 6 at 9:00 PM (Free Entrance)

Address: Hamra, Beirut, facing Piccadilly Theater (in a small street on your left, past Vero Moda)

Walimat Wardeh - October 12 at 9:00 PM

with Filthy Fuck of Ayat on throat incantations and Stephane Rives on alto-sax

Entrance Fee: 10,000 LL

Address: Makdisi st . Hamra, Beirut

Django - October 16 at 10:00 PM (Free Entrance)

Address: Rue Liban, Gemayzeh, Beirut

Beast Mutation Rituals - Review II

2011-09-14T19:48:00.000+03:00

Panorama Journal

The shape of Osman Arabi,is known due the eclectic nature,and creativity focused on projects such as 20.sv,Seeker,shamanic Death Trance,among others. This Time he emerges with an obscure paradigmatical exposition of hybrid mutations,with a very interesting release,floating and converging diverse elements from Drone,experimental,dark ambient and black ambience soundscapes,able to mutate through each listening. A sole piece of 25 minutes,of pure discordant misanthropic spectrum. Akind of descending to kaos and develop diverse,hybrid mutations with intense moments from start to finish.The atmopshere created itself is really impressive,especially the druming,and obscure pulsations keep your attention all the time,due the eclcetic nature,and how the music varies from time to time!The last minutes of the track are going oriented into a kind of Black metal stuff. A very interesting release worth to explore if you are looking for something intense,obscure,ritualistic and creative!! so just visit Kalpamantra!!!!

In Its Presence

2011-09-10T02:18:00.000+03:00

Presence - VI by Osman Arabi

Beast Mutation Rituals - Reviews

2011-09-07T18:21:00.003+03:00

Wounds of The Earth

Osman Arabi - "Beast Mutation Rituals"

Artist: Osman Arabi
Album: Beast Mutation Rituals
Year: 2011
Label: Kalpamantra
Genre: Dark / Ritual Ambient, Experimental
Website: http://kalpamantra.bandcamp.com

Basics:
"Beast Mutation Rituals" is the new release from the fairly prolific Osman Arabi (maybe you know him from his other projects 20.sv, Seeker, Shamanic Death Trance, etc.). This is a single 25 minute ritual of extremely dense, crushing, darkly arcane soundscapes.

Good stuff:
+ This is an INTENSE release. "Beast Mutation Rituals" pummels you with primordial ferocity from start to finish. It reaches it's feral, blackened tendrils down into the the twisting corridors of your subconscious; disassembling every bit of you quark by quark, and, by some ancient design, it reconfigures this slop of minutiae into something infinitely strengthened and more horrible. All this while repetitively beating your higher consciousness into oblivion. The intensity comes from the quite dense mix; there are many elements at play at all times, with little downtime. There is an ever-present bed of thick, black, droning ambience, and over top of this foundation is a continuously evolving mixture of sparse, ritualistic drumming; mutilated samples; haunting pads; and heaps of bizarre, shifting dissonance. You are kind of hearing the same type of stuff throughout the entire 25 minutes, however, everything is consistently moving, pulsating, and changing with hypnotic fervor, so it never feels repetitive or boring. The mix is so thick, and so much happening within that it is impossible to actively follow it all; it's best to just relax, close yourself off from the world and let your subconscious receive and be dismantled by it. I wouldn't say that this is expertly programmed or even necessarily terribly thought out or coherent; instead the beauty of this is that Arabi has channeled pure, unrefined, feral chaos (and I mean this in a sincere fashion, not just in the sense of someone making a cacophony of random pointless noises and squelches which is also "chaos"), and upon listening, one can actively feel oneself descend into it with no protective measures.

Bad stuff:
- Mix could be cleaner and the ritual drumming stronger and more powerful.

Summary:
This is certainly on the more experimental and interesting side of the dark ambient spectrum. I would definitely recommend this to fans of Aural Hypnox and the like, and those into more ambient PE and death industrial like Steel Hook Prostheses and Megaptera. The length is seemingly a bit short for a release, but I find that 25 minutes of this is the perfect duration. This is a free digital release, so don't pass it up.

Overall Rating: 8/10

The Ritual Inclusion of Code - Beta Wave Nemisis - Reviews

2011-08-14T01:25:00.005+03:00

Don't Count On It Reviews

Band: The Ritual Inclusion of Code
Country: Sweden/Tripoli, Lebanon
Style: Dark Ambient
Label: Small Doses

Before getting this album, I had no idea as to what kind of sound it would have, it was all cause the cover was interesting. Surprisingly enough, this collaboration between dark ambient/black metal artist Daniel Jansson, of Deadwood, and Osman Arabi, who works in similar realms of ambient, metal, and noise. This single track album certainly surprised me.
Whether or not you're into noise, dark ambient, industrial, etc. music or not, I feel that it is a genre that you have to acknowledge, it is music, stop pretending that it isn't. I takes the ability to really control and harness sounds into different shapes, if you get what I mean, and atmospheres that makes them genres worth listening to. These genres specifically are the ones that are manifested on this recording, with both artists playing at least a small role within black metal, that sort of darkness, presented in the form of noise, can be found on here. Granted, even at it's most intense moments, the noise is never like a punch in the face, it's more like someone slowly strangling you, it's not as brutally aggressive.
There's a general sense of building tension that is found on here, where things become increasingly more tense as the track progresses. Moving farther and farther away from the ambient beginnings of the track, noise begins to overtake it. In spite of it's length, which just tops thirty minutes total, this track feels nowhere near as long as that. There's plenty of different sounds and atmospheres being introduced, transformed, taken away, and then reappearing within it's duration and it just isn't boring in the least.
I really enjoyed this album, and it presents a different take on noise/dark ambient music that I've haven't heard a lot of yet. I know that a lot of people aren't going to like this because "noise isn't music," but this was really cool. Definitely check it out if you like more experimental ambient music.
Overall Score: 8
Highlights: There's Only One Track

Beast Mutation Rituals - Out Now

2011-08-09T14:54:00.005+03:00

Osman Arabi

Beast Mutation Rituals
KM021 - Digital Release

The album explores through sound the beast that lies in those following the left hand path, how it mutates and grows throughout the years to finally manifests itself in the physical world all while retaining harmony with the inner will power.

It is a journey into the realms of those that never kneel, unfolding the essence of their existence, the magic that they withhold and their gods' defying will. The outcome was a result of materials gathered from over 25 albums from different genres and sub-genres mixed, processed and re-designed with my ownsounds narrating 3 stages: Beast Awakening - Acceptance - Manifestation.

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Mutations

2011-08-08T12:56:00.006+03:00

I've recently finished working on my new album entitled "Beast Mutation Rituals". New methods were adopted and summoned, venturing more into the sound collage and micromontage realm that I've been formulating during the last two years privately all while forging the outcome with my own sound crafting.

A work in praise of the ever growing devouring beast in me and in every seeker.

The album will be out through Kalpamantra as a free digital release soon.

On other news, the myspace profiles have been replaced by one page on facebook with a superior option for audio streaming and download. More sounds will be added soon.

Mad Parade III - Visuals

2011-07-18T23:11:00.000+03:00

by Tanya Traboulsi

Mad Parade I - 2009

2011-07-15T03:29:00.000+03:00

TRIOC Reached The Shores

2011-07-07T14:54:00.000+03:00

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The Ritual Inclusion of Code

"Beta Wave Nemisis"

Available now in Lebanon

For more info, feel free to write me.

10 Years Ad Noiseam

2011-06-27T01:47:00.000+03:00

For more info click here

Devoured By The Blue Muse Space

2011-06-08T19:58:00.000+03:00

De-Noized Visualz

2011-06-06T03:25:00.000+03:00

Pictures by Tanya Traboulsi

De-Noized by Richard Eigner's Denoising Project

2011-05-24T03:19:00.003+03:00

I'm invited to perform alongside Richard Eigner where he will be recording my live sounds to be de-noised during his performance.

Location: Beirut Art Center

Date: Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Time: 8:00 PM

Entrance: 10$

For more info about the event click here

Where Are You?

2011-05-01T02:03:00.004+03:00

Where are you minions?

Where are you in that tunnel of fear?

Invoking The Old Ones

2011-04-26T20:49:00.000+03:00

Osman Arabi

In a night of invocations, hymns and rituals

EM Chill, Beirut, Lebanon

May 4, 2011 - 9:00 PM

Entrance: 10$

The Ritual Inclusion of Code - Beta Wave Nemisis (CD) Out Now

2011-04-23T14:09:00.000+03:00

The Ritual Inclusion of Code is a monumental collaboration between Daniel Jansson (Deadwood) and Osman Arabi (20.sv, Seeker). Beta Wave Nemisis is their premiere recording. Both men's influences and efforts are immediately apparent and blend effortlessly to create this thirty-one minute document of a long journey. Dark ambient textures blend with industrial soundscapes. Harsh noise floats with minimal drone and power electronics vocalizations. One movement flows well into the next, making for an intense and epic debut recording. The art and design was handled by Seldon Hunt.

Out on Small Doses

Sample One

Sample Two

Sample Three

Order your copy HERE