After a long period of silence, we welcome the return of one of the most important representatives of the ambient isolationist world: the wonderful UK artist Lull (aka Mick Harris of Scorn, Painkiller, Napalm Death). "Like a slow river" is a work characterised by sharp and minimal atmospheres but also dark, cold and huge such as large bodies of ice which slowly move, carried by an endless river. These five compositions reach the high expectations of Lull's previous works, such as "Cold Summer", "Continue" and the "Murder Ballads" trilogy with Martin Bates. With no doubt, this is the coldest and darkest work ever composed by this pioneer of industrial-ambient music. You will all be led to the oblivion of your existence....the freezing darkness of these glacial night is going to come down on your bodies and minds... you'll fall in your deepest sleep with the far echo of glacial runnings... the way to eternity is in front of you. Presented in a gorgeous 6-panel digipak. Highly recommended!!
Talented Italian ambient composer Alessandro Tedeschi runs the Glacial Movements label and plays music as Netherworld. His fascination for polar landscapes and soundscapes makes him close to industrial ambient pioneers such as Thomas Köner, Rapoon, Biosphere and Lull. Icy, windy, droning and deeply 'protomelodic' at once, his music is a poetic translation of the ice floe. Nadja is the drone / doom / ambient duo of Canadian musicians Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff. Their behemoth of sound is a construction of heat, weight, loop and vapour. Here, they had to break Netherworld's ice and find a way to the red core of Earth. The common track brings heat onto ice, which warms up, crackles and soon melts. As a conclusion, the long piece by Nadja is total heat. This is Nadja 'unrhythmed', which means pure lava. Artwork by Eyelyft.
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NETHERWORLD - 'Morketid' CD (Glacial Movements)
"Mørketid" is a Norwegian term that indicates a certain period in the year when the Arctic winter cold encases everything and the sun doesn’t rise over the horizon. It’s a cold and dark period that distinguishes regions and people living in the Artic. The music here is composed using short fragments of sounds found in the Arctic area. These are documented and subsequently sampled and then completely transformed into new forms and therefore a new vision of the Arctic. Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak.
First offering from the 'Würm Series', based on the world's most recent glaciation (10,000 years ago) and asking each artist to describe this endless Ice Age. "When I’ve been asked to describe the Ice Age with an uninterrupted drone, I knew I wanted to avoid the cliches of the genre: dark rumblings, massive low frequencies, cold atmospheres. I had to describe with sounds the white landscape, the blinding light reflected by the frozen oceans, the abyssal silence. I have imagined myself in flight over this Sleeping Earth, a solitary winged-being surrounded by winds, air, water and ice. This led me to compose an airy drone with minimal variations and delicate tones, an homage to a pure, uncontaminated and remote land" (Oöphoi). A singular 65-minute track presented in a digipak. Ltd x 750.
One of the predicted changes in the weather due to global warming is paradoxically a new ice age which could envelope Europe. "Time Frost" is music based upon this concept and uses tiny fragments / lock grooves of music from an iconic European composition, Johann Strauss's 'Blue Danube'. Imagine that tiny pieces of former cultures survived locked in the ice, waiting for future archaeologists to discover and interpret them. "Time Frost" is an imaginary recording of the mutational process of sound locked into ice and transformed over millennia. Like ghosts of music trapped in an ever-shifting permafrost. A stunning, haunting and hypnotic release. Highly recommended! Limited to 750 copies in a beautiful matt digipak.
