Review from Vital Weekly Magazine

VAGINA DENTATA ORGAN - CONCRETE MUSIC (CD by WSNS)
This is probably my most favourite album to review in ages. Not because of the music or the album's cover, as I have not yet heard this album or seen its cover, but because it could be potentially anything. Really anything. Let's be fair, with most artists, you basically know what you are going to get. There might be the odd surprise, an incongruous development in sound or a change in personnel, but you'd hardly expect the new album by any harsh noise wall artist to feature Christmas carols, do you? The interesting thing about all the works released by Catalan performing, visual, and audio artist Jordi Valls, of Vagina Dentata Organ, is that you never know what to expect. It could be anything. Literally anything. And as such, utterly different to everything released before by any artist. Valls began his intriguing recording career with the release of three vinyl picture disc albums in the mid-to-late 1980s. These records, which were quite controversial at the time and have therefore become highly collectable, were followed by a series of CDs and records in later years, all released at irregular intervals on Valls' private label, WSNS, World Surrealist Network Services, and all essential to anyone interested in conceptual art. Now I know most, if not all, of you are eager to read in detail about these albums and the new Vagina Dentata Organ one in this final Vital Weekly, but I won't. Ignorance is bliss. Valls' latest album, Concrete Music, is another conceptual masterpiece, simply because of its existence. It is neither good nor bad. You (don't) need to hear it, you (don't) need to own it. You already have, and you already do. (FK)

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