On your knees!
I first ran into Vision Fortune at the Mazes single launch in June, and they were one of the ballsiest bands I’ve ever seen. Lit by a head-splittingly mental strobe, they basically blasted out weird sounding art rock for 20 minutes before finishing in an explosion of hazy feedback as the guitarist Austin Williams snaked his way through the more than impressed crowd. It was eccentric stuff for a band no-one had ever heard of.
A few hours later, and I'm on their Soundcloud page. The first track I listen to is 'Void Of The Valley' and I start to think about all the trippy videos I've seen in the past, as well as Albus Dumbledore's death and the desert. Funnily enough, these guys remind me of a drone-y Omar Souleyman, because I can't really understand the vocals that well – but that's part of the beauty of it. Thery're the sort of band who seems to get away with anything. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised to see a bunch of chanting monks popping up on track in the near future.
In fact Vision Fortune is quite drone-inspired in general; their slightly haunting chants circulate in my eardrums for a good while after the songs are finished, as if someone has managed to cross pollinate David Bowie with Sunn O))). After finishing listening to 'Black Coral' I can't stop thinking about what it would be like floating in space, mainly because I associate the word 'black' with space because space is literally a big black... space? Well, there's gas and stuff but I don't want to get into that…
Anyway, do check out their Soundcloud (in the most stable frame of mind you have) for more material from these South London drone-smiths. I’m not joking; these guys literally open new doors on perception.
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