A darkly moving and compelling ritualistic ambient release which admits a charming taste for retro kraut-electronic atmospherics.
Firstly known for having signed a first effort on the highly acclaimed Spekk label (Japan based structure devoted to a wide range of experimental abstract ambient releases), sound designer Yair Etziony is back with a new tremendous mindscaping effort titled Delphi. If his first album is colorfully orientated to glitch, dubsteping ambient Delphi announces a radical new turn for an immersive-claustrophobic creeped-out ambient isolationism.
Merciless buzzing abstract drone textures meet nightly-incantatory sounding rituals and subtly organic glitchy dreamscaping ambiences. Very experimental, challenging and haunting this dark drone ambient release is a nice exploration which admits clear reminiscence to the most gothic and gloomy atmospheric part of krautrock music notably from Limbus4, Sand, Damenbart, Cluster (I & II), Nekropolis, Code III with a taste for subliminal droned-out frequencies close modern projects such as Cloudland Canyon, Aethenor, Aeolian String Ensemble. “Apollo” opens the ghostly ritualistic ballet with a gloomy-esque bass pulsing minimalist sequence followed by the cerebral droned-out “Oracle.” “Agora” delivers a more fragmented / abstract ambient flavor with a gorgeously evanescent intertwined melodious-vaporous line. “Hestia” sounds like a hell-ish dark ambient track in the noble tradition of the genre, absolutely absorbing track. The title track closes the album with a bleak synthesized punctuated by densely vibrant doom lines and tripped out electronic arpeggios that can remind Berlin school pioneering works at their darkest cosmic moments (Conrad Schnitzler et al).
Delphi is a darkly moving and compelling ritualistic ambient release which admits a charming taste for retro kraut-electronic atmospherics.
Delphi is available on False Industries.
