Steve Hauschildt returns after six years with a new album on Simul, still experimenting with the vast territories of audio research and panoramic, sentient ambient music on Aeropsia.
Tag: Dark Ambient
New Risen Throne :: Of Grey Grounds (Eighth Tower)
As always with New Risen Throne, this album is massive, cathedralic, orchestral, sonically transportive, with hints of doom-laden epicness. Recommended for fans of deep ambient music with a cinematic, moody-esque, dystopian edge. Fans of Lustmord, Svartsinn, Phaenon, Dodmaskin, Psychonaut, Aeoga… won’t be disconcerted.
MEGAFAUNA :: Birdsong (Self Released)
MEGAFAUNA creates a dark atmosphere using nature sounds and electro-acoustic manipulation to take the mind somewhere it didn’t expect to go. Listening to this at early morning hours, at normal volume, lying down, not fully awake, is a specific and disorienting experience. It’s quite amazing for what it is: a live improvisation built from birds that manages to sound like a horror score composed by the landscape itself.
Cathopsis :: Solythode (Component)
Solythode maintains an unrelenting presence, often opening with uneasy ambient-noise structures before expanding toward the outer edges of mechanical rhythms and threaded bass lines that seem to operate just outside our galaxy.
Philippe Blache :: Embodied Shadow Of Thy Secret Mind (Mahorka)
Philippe Blache has constructed a detailed sonic environment where piano, electronics, repetition, and shifting textures create a sustained feeling of uncertainty, contemplation, and spectral loss.
Mount Shrine :: The Yasu Ether Project (Cryo Chamber)
Simon Heath closes the release notes with “May you rest in peace.” There’s nothing to add to that. The Yasu Ether Project is an overall haunting and pleasant experience, a final document of an artist who understood that darkness and stillness aren’t opposites of beauty but conditions under which a particular kind of beauty becomes possible. César Alexandre knew that instinctively, and this album proves it one last time.
V/A :: Witchcraft & Black Magic In The United Kingdom (Expanded Version) (Eighth Tower)
All in all, a very good introduction to Eighth Tower’s substantial catalog for lovers of deep electronic sound art. Quite recommended while reading Margaret Murray’s acclaimed history of European witchcraft.
Linear North :: We Thought It Was Normal (Self Released)
Intelligent yet playful, We Thought It Was Normal is an assured statement from an artist continuing to refine an already distinctive electronic language.
Nimh/Sleepwalker :: Empire of Sand (Ksenza)
Empire of Sand provides impeccably built darkened droning soundscapes with an emotional and nihilistic apex. The whole sonic architecture is centered on assaultive, multi-layered harsh electric guitar patterns; micro-noisy, grainy ambient electronics; and a grandiose, spellbinding dystopian cinematic component.
Julien Ash & M.Nomized :: Rotostyles (Lotophagus)
Rotostyles is a vertiginous and exhilarating demonstration of sonic craftsmanship, draped in colossal, almost Dantean orchestration. Highly recommended—uneasy and captivating in equal measure.
Sutekh Hexen & Hissing :: SH:HS EP (Cyclic Law / Phage Tapes)
In the end SH:HS leaves me with a sense of how futile yet crucial it is for us to try to seek meaning in the endless chaos of existence.
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