This Crying Era is a gorgeously cinematic and ominously bewitching album that will ravish fans of the most uncompromising facet of the dark ambient genre (masterful works from Lustmord, Raison d’être, Never Known…). Absolutely recommended for beginners in Nimh’s dark ambient and mystical droning minimalism.
Nimh is an avant-garde deep ambient industrial electronic project formed by the multi-instrumentalist and sound designer Giuseppe Verticchio. Nimh has evolved on the territories of truly ecstatic-drone ambient music since the 90s with a vast catalogue of releases published on various independent labels such as Afe, Silentes, Eibon Records. Within a much more sonic industrial direction, Nimh has published complex, intricate releases in collaboration with pioneers of electronic-noise music (Mauthausen Orchestra, Maurizio Bianchi). After a series of innovative releases (The Missing Tapes, Travel Diary etc.) which admit self-reflexive use of acoustic instruments and turned to ethno-ritual droning music, Nimh is back from the roots of blackened ambient music.
This Crying Era clearly announces the color with psycho-acoustic and deeply moving dark ambiences in a pure classy sounding form. This LP provides a stunning assemblage of rumbling drones, ghostly like melodic textures, background noises. A sweeping dark melancholia and an isolationist splendor prevail all along the album. The droning aesthetism seems to be focused on doomscape laments and frozen- neurotic sounds. The albums starts with the otherworldly and metaphysical “Crying Era,” an atmospheric epic tune which slowly emerges from a charged catalogue of bleak electronic noises. The leading melodious theme provides hauntingly mysterious and beautiful eerie lines taken from processed piano textures. An incredible touching and languid piece which carries on the more conceptual, cinematic but still deeply immersive “Streets of Teheran.” This soundscape features environmental sound geologies, acousmatic-drone metallic sequences. Typical sound realms followed by Nimh in the latest releases. “The Thadandar’s Room” is a breathtaking and amazingly oppressive ambience made of sustained buzzing phrases and resonating bleak interferences. A mesmeric dronescaping synthesized piece. The Side B provides burgeoning droney-aesthetic sound tapestries, made of harsh noises, doom-like ambiences and sinister guitar vibes. Very reminiscent to Giuseppe Verticchio’s collaborative works with Andrea Marutti (notably the first release of Hall of Mirrors entitled Reflections on Black).
This Crying Era is a gorgeously cinematic and ominously bewitching album that will ravish fans of the most uncompromising facet of the dark ambient genre (masterful works from Lustmord, Raison d’être, Never Known…). Absolutely recommended for beginners in Nimh’s dark ambient and mystical droning minimalism.
This Crying Era is available on Synästhesie Schallplatten.
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