Vrioon is a 2002 collaboration between Ryuichi Sakamoto

Ryuichi Sakamoto

After working as a session musician with Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi in 1977, the trio formed the internationally successful electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra in 1978. Known for their seminal influence on electronic music, the group helped pioneer electronic genres such as...

 and Alva Noto

Alva Noto

Alva Noto is a stage name of sound artist Carsten Nicolai who uses art and music as complementary tools to create microscopic views of creative processes. Another alias he uses is Noto...

.
Characterized by an unusual experimental sound (a sound which Sakamoto and Noto will experiment also in Insen

Insen

Insen is the second album in an ongoing collaboration between Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and German electronic artist Carsten Nicolai . The album's core sound is a blend of Sakamoto's impressionist piano melodies and Nicolai's digitally processed beats and sounds...

in 2005), it weaves an electronic minimalism spreading a very little amount of notes during the songs. The album was elected among the first 50 albums of 2003 by magazine The Wire

The Wire (magazine)

The Wire is a British avant garde music magazine, founded in 1982 by jazz promoter Anthony Wood and journalist Chrissie Murray. The magazine initially concentrated on contemporary jazz and improvised music, but branched out in the early 1990s to various types of experimental music...

. Also named album of the year in 2004 by The Wire magazine.

Track listing

1. "Uoon I" 13:51
2. "Uoon II" 9:40
3. "Duoon" 5:46
4. "Noon" 10:13
5. "Trioon I" 5:09
6. "Trioon II" 9:57

External links

• Dusted Magazine review by Ben Tausig