Beatroute Magazine: April 2009
Sebastien Buzzalino
One Hundred Owls
A Violent Collection of Colours
Independent
A Violent Collection of Colours, the debut EP from local progressive artist Dario Hudon-Verelli, was born from two distinct circumstances: the desire to prove something, and a TED video watched online. The latter ultimately had a larger effect on the album: an Ancient Greek philosophy about removing the ego from art via a daemon prompted Hudon-Verelli to try the same. Thus, he only gave himself a week to write A Violent Collection of Colours, accepting any ideas that came to him, trying to remove any judgement from his own work. What emerged is a highly fluid album, recorded almost in a stream-of-consciousness manner, that recalls the process by which On the Road was created.
The five-track, 13-minute EP sounds similar to his past work with Ahnabith Gish, though, because One Hundred Owls is a solo project, Hudon-Verelli has the freedom to push boundaries even further. At times, the EP verges on the fantastically bizarre that suggests that, indeed, there were few aesthetic barriers during production. A Violent Collection of Colours is the first in a series that will last up to two years: this is only the beginning and the landscape can only get more distorted.