MÖRK—which means darkness in Swedish—is a vertiginous and spiritually enthralling dive in deep bass cello tones, minimally improvised guitar sequences, long sweeping electronic sounds, and hypnotic loops.
A vertiginous and spiritually enthralling dive
If Julian Kent undoubtedly represents the impress of experimental music when cello chords are involved in the compositional skills, musicians as Christopher Berg, Aaron Martin and Henrik Meierkord might constitute a forehead trio about neoclassical ambient music where the cello plays a major role. Henrik Meierkord is a well established sound artist based in Sweden and whose musical repertoire ventures from contemplative sonic soundscapes to quietly moving cinematic atmospheres for sustained cello motifs and a various array of electronic devices.
This new album is welcome by the excellent Audiobulb publisher whose musical productions bring to the fore promising artists and confirmed sound artists at international levels (Moss Covered Technology, Pascal Savy). The last few months have been quite busy for the multidisciplinary imprint with the release of materials by Ümlaut and Doroszenko; all of great quality with abundant emotional palettes of timbres and electroacoustic atmospheres that are superbly transportive.
MÖRK—which means darkness in Swedish—is a vertiginous and spiritually enthralling dive in deep bass cello tones, minimally improvised guitar sequences, long sweeping electronic sounds, and hypnotic loops. The result is constantly evolving, immersive and subtly dark if not eerie. Thanks to its glacial, languid and sonic meditative environment, this album stands at the border of evocative dark ambient, groovy electronic downtempo and complex electroacoustic music for the materialistic approach on tone colors. This effort will lead the listener to an irrepressible and overlapping oceanic surge. The pieces admit a great variety of moods, ranging from moments of elegiac purity, energetic ritualized trance, to tension and uneasy feelings. As precious albums from this artist, MÖRK offers delightful listening experience in the heathen mist of the world and Northern melancholia.
MÖRK is available on Audiobulb. [Bandcamp | Site]
