Plone/None provides two expanded, long-form ambient-drone pieces, featuring massive walls of static, followed by slowly evolving clusters of convoluted, bleak noises and meandering motifs. This is not exactly power noise or a brutilist sound manifesto, as the two soundscapes give space to emotions and evocative, intimate feelings, pointing to a real sentient movement.
Immersive, lush, ghostly, and mesmeric atmospheres
Indie label specialized in challenging experimental soundscapes and advanced electronic music in the digital age, Mahorka offers here a solid new release that appears to be a collaborative effort between Marcin Lasek and rsn. Thomas Rosen (alias rsn) is a German sound artist with a taste for granular looping textures and abrasive, tranced-out droning atmospherics that we can appreciate in numerous albums, notably in his collaborations with Andreas Rönnquist and Modelbau. Marcin Lasek is a Polish sound artist and sound producer who devotes part of his creative endeavours to processed concrete musique, abstract experimentalism, and decayed tape music. His albums can be found as very limited editions (notably tapes and duplication CDs) on a few underground music labels.
This album provides two expanded, long-form ambient-drone pieces, featuring massive walls of static, followed by slowly evolving clusters of convoluted, bleak noises and meandering motifs. This is not exactly power noise or a brutilist sound manifesto, as the two soundscapes give space to emotions and evocative, intimate feelings, pointing to a real sentient movement. Various electronic effects enrich the sonic sculptures and create amazingly immersive, lush, ghostly, and mesmeric atmospheres, particularly noticeable in the “None.” Those multilayers of sound will reach you in a haunting, amorphous drench of reverbs and deep suggestions.
So to speak, if you like noise-inflected drone music organically presented within an engulfing emotional content and with moments of tension, this is definitely for you. This is also highly recommended if you are into the feral, opaque, and eroded, fuzzed-out drone solemnity of This Quiet Army, Francisco Lopez, or Savvas Metaxas. An existential journey into noise, emotions, moods, and progressively fading colours under the blackest skies.
Plone/None is available on Mahorka.
