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A nationally known painter, performance artist and musician in his native Hungary, Wahorn's first U.S. release aptly captures his irreverent musical style, characterized by cinematic breadth, punctuated with a tapestry of samples and mutated melodic fragments. This is the first time any of these recordings have been available domestically. Truly unique.
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All music is composed, played, recorded, mixed, and mastered by:
Andras Wahorn
"Wahorn is an artist from Hungary who actually worked there under the communist government, playing Jazz, painting and really just getting by as an artist in that environment. The experimental, soundtrackish work I hear on Whole is given a particular sort of life by his unique perspective.....
..........a disc of unexpected sounds and ideas"
MANIFOLD
"The surprise of the week is a batch of Hungarian artists (ANDRAS WAHORN, ACCIDENTAL ORCHESTRA, B.P. SERVICE) from a Hollywood label (!) called Tone Casualties (1258 North Highland Ave., Hollywood, CA 90038 213-463-0145). Fitting in with the above more in method than in mood, these artists are all pretty unusual, and unafraid of sounds way beyond the usual electronic palette."
CMJ MONTHLY
"Like a painterly film score, where the composer leaves it to the listener to create the imaginary movie to the music. Wonderful work, should be placed with Brian Eno, The Residents and alike"
MAGYAR NARANCS
"........Wahorn comprises dog barks, insects, human voices turned to demons (or beat box punctuations), screeches of unknown origin, all inter cut against a spare rhythm here, a clarinet there, synth whine drone and squiggles, rumbles so low you wonder if it's the CD or the subway.........."
" Someday, abstract art will hold the same stature in music as it does in painting. Until then, we'll have to connect the occasional worthwhile musical innovators of collage to the rock world for better classification - for instance, Andras Wahorn grew up listening to Devo and Zappa. That he took their impulses several steps further, colliding textures of dog barks, human voices and howling mantras into actual albums, should be applauded for its own sake."
HUH
