indistinction #1
by rsn | Niacinamide
The coming together of rsn and Niacinamide is a powerful wall of noise with incredible depth. The instruments and sound generators interweave inextricably. There is hardly any room for silence or breathing. The bass pushes, the sounds creak and hum, wobble and destroy themselves. Niacinamide and rsn have created four songs, or better call them sound compositions, that are bursting with power and noise. The mood is consistently dark and the songs crawl from the beginning to the bitter end. This is not a journey, this is a tight space that crushes everything flat.
ACU 1091
factory-produced CDr in Digisleeve
Released in 2025
limited to 50 copies
price: 10.00 EUR (excl. postage)
this is a joint-release by
attenuation circuit ° ACU 1091 ° 2025 (EU edition - 50 copies)
attenuationcircuit.de ° attenuation-circuit@web.de
Burial Recordings ° BR88 (US edition - 25 copies)
burialrecordings.com
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COMPOSER: Thomas Rosen, Thomas Mankowski
INSTRUMENTS: Bass, Electronics
RECORDING ENGINEER: Thomas Rosen, Thomas Mankowski
MIXING ENGINEER: Thomas Mankowski
MASTERING ENGINEER: Thomas Mankowski
PHOTOGRAPHER: Thomas Rosen
LAYOUT DESIGNER: N
rsn-entities.com
niacinamide.bandcamp.com
mail@rsn-entities.com
niacinamideband@gmail.com
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VITAL WEEKLY
Thomas Rosen is the musician behind the name RSN, and I reviewed some of his work before. He’s an avid collaborator, and this time he teams up with Thomas Mankowski, who goes by the name of Niacinamide. Instruments aren’t mentioned, but I know Rosen is a man playing the guitar and uses a fair bit of effects; I have no idea about the other Thomas. Although I would say RSN’s music is more akin to ambient music, the four pieces on ‘Indistinction’ are distinctly noise-based. Maybe I saw the title ‘Indistinction’ as amusing or confusing, as the music is far from indistinct. Each of the four pieces is a solid block of drone sound. Forceful and brutal, but not in the classical sense of noise music. There’s not an explosion of feedback and distortion. If there’s a wall of sound, then it’s a solid brick of drone sound. But, mind you, this isn’t a static block of noise, far from it. Each of these pieces sees a minimalist change of scenery, colour, and mood, which may not be easily detected if one plays this superficially, but only on repeated listening, this can be heard. Only in the last track, the tone goes down a bit, guitars become slightly more apparent, and set a hoovering tone for the end of part one of this collaboration. At least, by calling this ‘Indistinction #1’, I assume there’s going to be a ‘#2’. At 36 minutes, this is not the longest of releases, and ‘#2’ would be most welcome, and see what else there is to explore for these two musicians.
https://www.vitalweekly.net/number-1495/
BAD ALCHEMY
Thomas Rosen oder kurz rsn hat sich 2025 in Porosität, Ausdehnung, Klarheit, Verdichtung und Abweichung vertieft. Und neben dem Zusammenklang mit N oder Baltzer steht nun Indistinction #1 (ACU 1091 / Burial Recordings, BR88) mit NIACINAMIDE in New York. Während Pharma- und Kosmetikindustrie sich einiges unter dessem Namen versprechen, hat er ein Auge geworfen auf Lisa Bonet und auf Claudia Cardinales Dekolleté. Und „Greta Thunberg and the Ecology of Politics“ durchschaute er als 'shallow and meaningless'. Hier aber saust er mit rsn in hochtouriger Raserei dahin. Bebend und wummrig. Pumpend und schnarrend. Mit flattrig im Fahrtwind verzerrtem Brummen, doch dahinter auch sublim mitschwingender Harmonie. Und in knurrigem Drang zu davon unberührtem Klingklang von Metallstangen.
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