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~ Mike Vanportfleet
(Lycia) 		"SCORPIO is one of the best releases I've heard in years. The heavily effected music sweeps over you, seeps into you and takes you over. The Unquiet Void create dark ambient music in its purest form. I cannot think of another band that does it as effectively."
~ John Michael Zorko
(Ad Astra Records / Falling You) 		  "Be afraid... For those of you who like a good soundtrack to a nightmare, Scorpio (the debut from Jason Wallach a.k.a. The Unquiet Void) should provide ample opportunity to re-experience every waking-up-screaming-in-a-cold-sweat phantasm you've ever experienced as a child. Remember the one where the evil black sharp-toothed thing chased you through the alley, its claws dripping with th eblood of its last victim? This music was playing, believe me. How about the one where you looked skyward from the mountain top and saw the plague approaching, ominous, heavy clouds of nightmare green being carried on the winds toward you? Jason Wallach was there as well as in every other terrible dream you've ever had. He's captured the sounds you heard, the fear you felt, the chill in the air, the growls of the beasts and the terror of the moment and he's put them all together in Scorpio for anyone who likes to be scared witless every once in a while... Be very afraid."
~ John David Brodie
(Phantom Productions, Inc.) 		"Jason Wallach's Unquiet Void makes the film live with a superb musical score."
~ Conrad L. Dickey
(Stay Frightened) 		"Scorpio creates a deviously undulating landscape carved by musics and textures fueled with the plasma of a turbulent unseen universe. It's a challenge totally worth committing yourself to."
~ Godsend Online "This album is the instrumental soundtrack to a low-budget sleaze/horror flick (also called "Scorpio"), and it shines above and beyond the film itself. The music is 9 tracks of churning, tempestuous electronic textures and ominous synth strings. This is the kind of music ideally suited to a Dario Argento film. TUQV mainman Jason Wallach has been crafting his unique blend of dark ambient terrain and introspective nightmare vision for several years, and this is his most polished effort yet. THE UNQUIET VOID creates a drifting cascade of haunting and melodic music that deserves attention and CD release. This is an artist to watch."
~ Tracey Twyman
(Dagobert's Revenge Magazine) 		"Upon opening my Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1969), I found the following definitions for the word "void":

1 void -
1: containing nothing
2: IDLE, LEISURE
3 a: UNOCCUPIED, VACANT b: DESERTED
4: WANTING
5: VAIN, USELESS

2 void -
1 a: empty space: EMPTINESS, VACUUM b: OPENING, GAP
2: LACK, ABSENCE
3: a feeling of want or hollowness

3 void -
1a: to make empty or vacant: CLEAR b: VACATE, LEAVE
2: DISCHARGE, EMIT
3: NULLIFY, ANNUL

Aptly named, then, is this one-man band from Florida called The Unquiet Void. For that is exactly what 25-year-old Jason Wallach has accomplished on this 10-track CD, Scorpio, which is the soundtrack for an upcoming film of the same name. Listening to this recording is like hearing the echo of the almighty OM as it reverberates across the universe from a source beyond time and space, a place that is essentially no place at all. That, to me anyway, is the void which Mr. Wallach is channeling, that which is referred to in the Upanishads as the Infinite, the Eternal, the Self. "The Self is One, and it has become all things." (Chandoya) The Tao teh Ching describes it as "like an empty bowl, which in being used can never be filled up... Hidden in the deeps, Yet it seems to exist forever." Sounds like some place you'd like to go? Well believe me, this new release from The Unquiet Void will propel you out of your ego-conscious state and bring you to the bliss of the Clear Light faster than you can say Mother, I'm coming home." Pop it in and prepare to meet the Buddha face to face."
~ KD
(Middle Pillar Distribution)		 "Brilliant dark ambient malevolent upheaval into sonic crystals of brilliant light - images conjured from the subconscious. The soundscapes sweep and spiral effortlessly, marking melodic movement and change with the pulsing beats, and occasional whisper. Evocative, lush."
~ Manny Theiner
("In Pittsburgh" Newsweekly)		 "AlterCulture Records is a new label run by the Sevanick brothers from local industrial rockers Mindless Faith, and their first national release is from south Florida's one-man electronic outfit The Unquiet Void, a.k.a. Jason Wallach. Wallach's eerie, majestic synth washes, predominating on pieces such as "Autumn Fires" and "A Constant Looming Uncertainty," land him somewhere between the New Age - leaning works of Steve Roach and Vidna Obmana and the ice-cold graveyard ambience of bands on the Cold Meat Industry and Malignant labels. When the drum machine comes in accompanied with some guitar layering I cannot help but think of Lycia. sans lyrics. The Unquiet Void ensures an engaging listen for anyone who traffics in awe-inducing, spooky atmospheres on a pitch-black, starless night."
~ Gub
(KettleBlack Zine)		 The Unquiet Void "Scorpio" Descent, A descent into the inner structures of one's very being. That is what the music of The Unquiet Void will do to you. You will travel. Atmospheric. Etheric. Ambient.... Horrific. Imagine a soundtrack to the horrors imagined & The Unquiet Void pens the notes. When I sat down to listen to the debut release, "Scorpio", I didn't know really what to expect. I opened a book on ghost stories, the chupacabra & the Tampa Dead Zone.... Wrong book for that music. Goosebumps sprouted on my arms, the hair on the back of my neck stood on end. A chilling masterpiece. It is written that this release was done as a soundtrack to a movie, well I have to find that movie (you can't have one without the other). The Unquiet Void is one man, J. Wallach, & over 10 years of hard work, frustration & the inevitable collapse of a human being, "Scorpio" was done. And man, it was well worth it. Packaged nicely into the grooves of the disc is a lot of emotion. A talent unsurpassed; the cosmic writing of music through emotions. Now, The Unquiet Void has attracted labels & compilations have songs of his. Expect more. Whether for another movie or different, The Unquiet Void is a disc that everyone must have in their collection.
~ John Shirley
(author of "Wetbones" and "Black Butterflies") 		"Scorpio - This atmospheric music resonates with hidden places in the brain. Useful to do creative work by, to have trance-like sex by, or to prepare for out of body experiences by. Cool stuff, I use it for writing."
~ Martin Kleman
(Chili magazine)		 "The Unquiet Void Scorpio (Alterculture Records) So called "darkambient" is a style of music which still hasn't gotten any real hold in Sweden, perhaps mainly because it is so soft but still can be very hard to listen to. Atmospheric, floating, beautiful but still nightmarish, is a pretty good description of how The Unquiet Void - or Jason Wallach as his name is - sounds. Even tho' the record is very slow and dreaming it doesn't become boring, and this is what characterizes good darkambient music. The lack of song makes Scorpio the perfect record to relax, sleep, or have sex to."
~ Urijara
(Quintessence)		 Stunning debut of this US based project. "Scorpio" presents the soundtrack for the independent film of the same name composed by JasonWallach a.k.a. THE UNQUIET VOID. Despite of the fact that "Scorpio" is his first full-length release, Jason is already known for participations in some compilations - one of them in collaboration with Lycia. The album evokes dense and mysterious atmospheres based on synths - another dark ambient act avoiding abusive use of drones and samples - and gives you an almost perfect idea of what to expect from the film. Having not watched myself the movie, it's a really mind-expanding exercise listening to "Scorpio" and trying to imagine what kind of scenes Jason wanted to capture with his music. Most of the times, I clearly feel someone sitting in a dark room or a creature hidden at the humid forest. Some of the tracks were composed back in the early 90's and coincidentally are my favorites, along with the sweeping and mysterious rhythms of "The cube of bondage" and "The devil card". A few of the utilized programmings actually reminds me a bit of Lycia at their most inspired moments. From the new batch of American atmospheric projects I had the opportunity to listen to, TUQV belongs to the highest order. Congratulations, Jason! Now I'm looking forward to check the movie...
~ (XYZ:8) XYZ
(Sideline Magazine)		 THE UNQUIET VOID Scorpio Alterculture Records Brilliant. Surreal. Unsettling. Welcome to 'Scorpio', a dark, cold, riveting excursion into the deepest channels of the post-nuclear mind. Huge, hollow fm synthesis grinds against an eerie distorted sweep. Effects-laiden feedback washes over a simple mechanical beatbox. No hi-tech analogue retro here. Its a nightmare of oldschool digital experiments, reminding us of our favorite late 709s and early 809s science fiction film soundtracks. Eraserhead and Blade Runner all the way. Where the hell was The Unquiet Void when the Terminator movies were made! It would have kicked total cyborg ass over that Guns & Roses crap. Just awesome, massive instrumentals. By the way, 3Scorpio2 is the soundtrack for a film of the same name - I hope the movie does it justice. The lofi production of this work, with its overdriven inputs and underdriven outputs, somehow seems appropriate. It never gets too harsh (Nurse with Wound), it doesn't cause digital pain (In the Nursery), and it ain't stupid or silly (Throbbing Gristle and Princess Tinymeat). I like it just the same. Who knows? The age of industrial noisescapes has given way to drum & bass, but there still could be hope for the persistent purist. I hope so, cuz I still like to hear weird shit like this. When I go retro I want it rare and dark. cool. Watch for a spring release. Buy it . Grab your portable and listen in an underground parking garage on a cold, wet night.
     
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