VCR is Voltage Controlled Romance, based in Prague / Czech Republic.

Writing, improvising, performing and producing stories and romances within darkness, industrial, ambient and techno. No boundaries, no censorship, no regrets.

contact: vcr@post.cz
soundcloud.com/vcrlive
voltage-controlled-romance.bandcamp.com

two ambient live sessions

01	Part I	18:03
02	Part II	22:39

I always extensivly praised the "one take improvisation" approach in the music creating process, it fully embraces creativity, allows complete freedom, unleashes deepest emotions from heart of the artist and records that one exact moment, time and place. Also I always found it to be brave, because there is only one take, whatever happens stays there, forever.

This release is the first showcase of this workflow where i'm simultaneously playing (everything is played or using held notes, no sequencers or midi were used) and recording about dozen synthesizers and so creating fields of various sounds / atmospheres that are then mixed into one track.

Theme of this whole album is mostly blurry and in the myst, but I recall at one point I felt there is somehow a theme, passing by an old solar system full of dead planets and a fading star, that once hosted a large civilisation that was at some point destroyed by the star becomming a red giant.

Have a pleasant listening experience, all the best.

Full Downloads

zen299.zip (complete album with artwork)

Copyright (c) 2024 by VCR
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Cover picture by Louie Michaud

a warm analogue ambience

01	It's All Too Late when memories of brightest past can't overcome shadows of the present times.	2:57
02	Desolate Machinery I have once saw pictures of thousands of machines, from the past, sitting on the racks, waiting to die.	6:34
03	Broken It's broken and cannot work, don't fix it.	3:57
04	Downsampled Sounds of all the tortured human minds in the current age.	6:05
05	No Regrets If you have something to say, say it, no matter the cost.	3:48
06	Colours Of Darkness Even in darkness there is beauty and all the unimaginable colors, don't be scared to see them.	6:43

Full Downloads

zen226.zip (complete album with artwork)

Copyright (c) 2021 by VCR
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
Cover photography by Maria Hampe

vintage dreams & beats


1. Movement I
Dark and cold late winter evening and sonic journey into frozen dystopian future.

2. Movement II
Leave everything behind and let your brain and body dance.

3. Movement III
Sometimes, recklessly stomping the drums and bells, is plain right thing to do (or not?).

4. Movement IV
Performed roughly year after sad loss. Fate is your unfriendly friend.

Full Downloads

zen214.zip (complete album with artwork)

Copyright (c) 2020 by VCR
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License