Sepulchre is highly reflective, rhapsodic, fluxuous and diversified with an exquisite sense of melodious-melancholic motives in qualitative ambient music.
Sepulchre is the new collection of luminous-textured ambient pieces recorded by Ian Boddy for his laboratory DiN. Most pieces are composed in a typical ambient-spacey synth vein with an emphasis on sonic patterns, breathing-religiously ecstatic sound motives. All compositions are selected from a live performance given in Philadelphia (October 13th, 2012) for the Star’s End radio show.
Technically, the long-playing sound textures are obtained on vintage analog synthesizers occasionally sustained by computerized schemes. The whole set is very harmonious, consonant, intentionally contemplative and spiritually energetic. The opening theme offers sinuous sculptured sounds, enthralling modulated frequencies, rather abstract, surreal and enigmatic with some molecular cycled effects. The perfect piece to start this heavenly musical procession. “Vault” provides deeply sonorous-orchestrated drone sequences, densely vibrating within an impressively dark-mysterious register. A majestic and absolutely mind-blowing track, carefully made and which seems to explore the mystical side of light and sleep in a transcendental union. Remembrance is an extended long droning chordal epic for deep harmonic qualities and tonal clusters, marvelously peaceful. “Monument” offers an arpeggiated cosmically evocative soundscape which is a reminiscence of 70s Berlin school of electronic music. “Forgotten” is such a fragile, pure and crystal-like musical beauty with subliminal discreet chord progressions. “Rest” closes the album with a magnificent, almost onirically elevated synthscaping piece made of fundamental sustained harmonies and micro variations.
Sepulchre is highly reflective, rhapsodic, flexuous and diversified with an exquisite sense of melodious-melancholic motives in qualitative ambient music. Among my true favorite Ian Boddy’s intense synth-spacey odysseys. This one will completely ravish fans of “vertical listening” and golden years of cosmic-analogic synthedelica works (From Ian Boddy but also from Von Holshauven, Zanov, Klaus Schulze, Bernd Kistenmacher and a few others).
Sepulchre is available on DiN. [Release page]
