The object
you are holding in your hands is special in many respects. The
product of a
collaboration between three artists with a divergent, and indeed sometimes
opposed, approach of music, this work plainly demonstrates how
their musical
universes ultimately complement each other along three axes - noise,
rhythm and
melody.
The
melodies are provided by Lambwool. A talented musician adept at creating
musical landscapes fraught with melancholy, he colours the record
with layers
of keyboards and acoustic instruments samples that conjure up the
crystalline,
meditative melodies he has become renowned for.
Babylone
Chaos has long been an avid proponent of chaotic, oppressing
climates and deals
in suffocation and saturation. The nefarious vapours of his distorted,
out-of-joint universe bring a great measure of entropy to this opus.
Le Diktat
is the only duo involved in this three party collaboration. Le
Diktat brings
the rhythm to the table. Break-core loops, drum nībass rhythm patterns,
trip-hop, electro and rock elements coupled with scratches create the most
unexpected stylistic fusions, even on the most haunting instrumental
tracks of
this album. The result is a surprising collision between acoustic
purity and
punishing industrial beats, but a remarkably daring demonstration.
Jembes,
flutes, scratches, harp, piano, samples; intense episodes or
long, meditative
soundscapes; sometimes quiet, sometimes heavy with saturation,
this work of
contrasts displays a thousand faces, takes a thousand forms which
will not fail
attract any and all who would take a musical journey in unchartered
territories. The soundtrack to the End Times!
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