Venus Ritus (Venus), by Kris Vango

Venus Ritus (Venus)

by Kris Vango

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1.	Ritus 02:19		buy track
2.	Venusian Clouds (Boundless Desires) 09:03		buy track
3.	These Walls Around My Heart 04:24	lyrics	buy track
I never meant to hurt you.
4.	A Love That is Suffocating 04:25		buy track
5.	Vulnerability as a Weapon 05:46		buy track
6.	Waiting For a Text 03:24		buy track
7.	Your Body Heat 09:04		buy track
8.	Codependency Issues 04:23		buy track
9.	Becoming Whole 06:57		buy track

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Venus Ritus is the latest planetary concept album by Berlin-based, Australian musician and occult philosopher Kris Vango (following from 2018’s ‘Ard’ - Earth and 2019’s ‘Mother Moon’ - Moon). Kris’ aim is to approach each planet as a separate concept piece and album, expressing astrological and mythological concepts and constructing neo-mythologies, guiding the listener into mystical sonic landscapes that echo both the observable physical sciences of each planet and their non-physical esoteric and astrological themes.

With a professional background in music production, visual art, graphic design and UX design paired with an appetite for mythology, astrology, alchemy and the occult as ways to investigate the human psyche; Kris playfully constructs sonic and visual worlds, constructing avatars for each concept piece, both live and visually to embody each planetary concept piece.

Venus Ritus is the first of two codependent releases due for 2020 and will be followed by Ares (Mars), to be released later in the year. In tradition, these two planets have often reflected the binary nature of gender; the male and the female; masculine and feminine. As a queer and non-binary identifying artist, redesigning these two mythologies for a contemporary and increasingly genderless culture seemed vital and relevant. As a concept piece Venus Ritus transforms dated concepts of femininity and the woman as being soft, vulnerable and submissive, and reappropriate this as the woman and the feminine being fully realised, using vulnerability as a weapon and celebrating fully empowerment. In contrast Ares, breaks down the brutality of masculinity and serves as a catharsis for anger, impulse and the need to mature adolescent masculinity within the collective. Both, of course, are idealistic utopian visions. But serve as affecting artistic pieces that draw the listener into analysing these concepts within themselves, where Kris uses genre and varying vocal techniques (inspired by fellow conceptual artists like Bjørk, Mike Patton, Grimes and Arca) to further express artistically each planet as their own genres. It is this playful sense of musical alchemy underpinning Kris’ work that encourage spiritual exploration and escape the feeling of being imposing of their themes and ideas

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released May 16, 2020

Music written, performed, mixed by - Kris Vango
Artwork - Kris Vango
Additional Creative:
Tom Ezyaguirre - Photos
Sarah Hartgens - Make up
Niklas Jeroch - 3d Visual
Future Anscestor - Video Colab
Elodie Carstensen - Garments
Track 7 contains a sample from Sounds from The Cambodian Wild by Adrian Stoeger.
Track 9 contains the following samples; Acclivity - Winding Clock (via freesound.org), Avakas - Kids Playing (via freesound.org) and Jus- Lakeside birds (via freesound.org).
All samples are licensed by CC BY 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Label - NVMPHS

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Kris Vango

KRIS VANGO's vision is to map and document our solar system through narrative sound, dedicating an album to each planetary body. Sonically, Kris traverses a cross pollination and re-evolution of club music’s sonic textures, with a re-connecting of the Shamanic origins of uniting collectives into a shared experience–utilising genre and collaboration as tools to explore varying planetary landscapes. ... more

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