The album is made of four themes for a restful, harmonious and ecstatically sonic ritual where the listener is surrounded by marvelous tone-colors and radiant frequencies.
Released by Psychonavigation, this new album appears to be the first opus from the project Arche. First Cause offers a dense wall of psych-acoustic sounds devoted to spherical droning ambience and tonal clusters with long sustained chords, various micro-sounds, manipulated frequencies and accidental events. Slowly evolving and enveloping this musical experience can be lived as sonorous ritual through the mysteries of creation, the metaphysical realities and the sacred beliefs linked to invisible spiritual entities. The album is made of four themes for a restful, harmonious and ecstatically sonic ritual where the listener is surrounded by marvelous tone-colors and radiant frequencies.
The opening track introduces us in linear-repetitive chordal patterns whose alluring sinuosity can remind the conceptual-spectral and religious music of Giancinto Scelsi. “Observation” is an elegantly spacious vibrant soundscape made of large droning circular motives for electronics and sustained acoustic timbres. Rather dark and tenebrous but within a delicate shape, we can feel implicit reminiscences to Tod Dockstader, Akos Rozmann, Phill Niblock, Richard Lainhardt but also from the subterranean dark ambient manifests of Tholen, Galerie Schallschutz. The album carries on a river of static drones with a nice incantatory impact which challenges the capacities of listening. Some sequences include fluxuous radio sound treatments, uninterrupted sonic harmonies and metallic acoustic moves. “Descent” closes the album with an intriguing soundscaping spell.
A beautifully released album, essentially dronescaping, religiously ecstatic and whose originality comes from the interesting sonic balance between undulating resonant continuum and the dynamic acoustic intensity of single notes. A new one that will ravish drone music enthusiasms.
First Cuase is available on Psychonavigation.
