Aun - Black Pyramid
Recently, one could have noticed that a new sort of perversion appeared in the world of music. Not that it finally made its appearance, but started to live its own life, winning recognition of new fans. After all, every genre has its own history, its origin and beginning; it actually shows its true colors by taking the form of quite a probation amongst all the officially acclaimed sorts of music, having already obtained a certain existential undertow.
Drone, a word which has been emerging in many reviews for quite a long time now, is an experimental music alternative - a term 'inbred', mainly associated with zootechnics, meaning an amalgamation of two different species resulting in the creation of one, can be safely used to describe its phenomenon. Such musical experiments breed curiosities which most usually take the form of bands like Aun.
In the case of Canadian Aun, whose discography includes 9 albums, the experimental drone does not exactly fit the described record, as the music created for this release consists solely of distorted, rather juicy sound, well-arranged sonic sphere, also supporting the ambient side of music, filling it with rather clear tunes, escaping some depressive echo-forms and basing on quite warm atmosphere, which at some points may be loosely associated with the work of Eluvium. Rustle and crunch, revolving around the style of experimental noises, fill the wave of floating sounds, making it take the form of the real drone ambient.
Such musical shapes are characteristic of the title composition, Black Pyramid, which starts with distorted sound wave, only to be developed in the direction of clearly ambient solutions. The sonic space of each piece is an animation of the fighting forms, which constitute the vibrating stains of sound, whose level may appear slightly unstable over the minutes of this musical eon, simultaneously giving birth to industrialized fragments of sounds, enriching their structure. On one hand it is by all means an interesting performance, but on the other - its overusing may render the record to be perceived as one, far too long track.
One can encounter purely ambient references in a track named Ursa Minor, which is the shortest one on the album, lasting only three minutes, while the average length of the others accounts for 8 minutes; only in this track does the band resign from noisy samples in favor of the flowing sound.
This record will be a nice bite for all fans of experiments in the field of drone ambient; for more fussy ones it may turn out too boring. Personally, I regard Black Pyramid as an interesting position, which unfortunately does not encourage you to yet another musical confrontation, though.
Tracklist:
01. Phoenix
02. Taurus Ten
03. Black Pyramid
04. Ursa Major
05. 2095
06. Ursa Minor
07. Shining
Other articles:
Drone, a word which has been emerging in many reviews for quite a long time now, is an experimental music alternative - a term 'inbred', mainly associated with zootechnics, meaning an amalgamation of two different species resulting in the creation of one, can be safely used to describe its phenomenon. Such musical experiments breed curiosities which most usually take the form of bands like Aun.
In the case of Canadian Aun, whose discography includes 9 albums, the experimental drone does not exactly fit the described record, as the music created for this release consists solely of distorted, rather juicy sound, well-arranged sonic sphere, also supporting the ambient side of music, filling it with rather clear tunes, escaping some depressive echo-forms and basing on quite warm atmosphere, which at some points may be loosely associated with the work of Eluvium. Rustle and crunch, revolving around the style of experimental noises, fill the wave of floating sounds, making it take the form of the real drone ambient.
Such musical shapes are characteristic of the title composition, Black Pyramid, which starts with distorted sound wave, only to be developed in the direction of clearly ambient solutions. The sonic space of each piece is an animation of the fighting forms, which constitute the vibrating stains of sound, whose level may appear slightly unstable over the minutes of this musical eon, simultaneously giving birth to industrialized fragments of sounds, enriching their structure. On one hand it is by all means an interesting performance, but on the other - its overusing may render the record to be perceived as one, far too long track.
One can encounter purely ambient references in a track named Ursa Minor, which is the shortest one on the album, lasting only three minutes, while the average length of the others accounts for 8 minutes; only in this track does the band resign from noisy samples in favor of the flowing sound.
This record will be a nice bite for all fans of experiments in the field of drone ambient; for more fussy ones it may turn out too boring. Personally, I regard Black Pyramid as an interesting position, which unfortunately does not encourage you to yet another musical confrontation, though.
Tracklist:
01. Phoenix
02. Taurus Ten
03. Black Pyramid
04. Ursa Major
05. 2095
06. Ursa Minor
07. Shining
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