Dystopian Gates is a brooding musical effort, an album which can easily get attention of avid fans of tellurian space music, blackened ambient, and deep sentient drones.
Dense walls of sound oscillate in vivid emotional resonances
Loyal partisan of the Cryo Chamber, cyber musical tribe, Alphaxone (aka Mehdi Saleh) is back under the radar with one spooky, intensively gauzy ambient artifact.
Some of Alphaxone’s pieces have been previously reviewed by Igloo. The enthralling and cinematic visions of the sound artist are well captured in this new album which according to me figures among his best. Cumulus clouds, spectral textures, and dense walls of sound oscillate in vivid emotional resonances. The opening track sums up it all with its enveloping and icy melancholic tones. Some parts admit a quite raw and merciless fuzzed-out energy like the eerie “Falling Time.” Solid doom accents come to the fore in a few tracks such as “Out Of Source” and “Dissolving Horizon.” The whole album is perpetually sustained by ultra dark and ominous bass frequencies which slowly evolve, balanced with dynamic electronic interference. Dystopian Gates is a brooding musical effort, an album which can easily get attention of avid fans of tellurian space music, blackened ambient, and deep sentient drones.
Dystopian Gate is available on Cryo Chamber.
