2013-7-17 04:57
麻油女郎
Vestigial - Solar Aeon LIMITED EDITION (2013) [Dark Ambient]
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P R E S E N T S
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Vestigial - Solar Aeon
Ripper : D2H Army Genre : Ambient
Supplier : D2H Army Release Date : 18-06-2013
Source : CDDA Year : 2013
Type : Album Tracks : 11
Encoder : Lame 3.98 Quality : VBRkbps/44,1kHz/Joint-Stereo
Label : Cyclic Law Catalog # : 54th Cycle
Url : [url]http://www.discogs.com/Vestigial-Solar-Aeon/release/4163279[/url]
T R A C K L I S T
Track Title Track Time
01 Last Extinction Prayer (07:28)
02 The Grey Constellation (06:22)
03 Dagda Rising (05:26)
04 Celebrating The New Sun (03:57)
05 Substorm's Curtains (04:38)
06 Solar I (05:59)
07 Solar II (05:59)
08 Wars Of No Time (03:50)
09 New World (Un)Order (04:30)
10 The Serene Ground (04:17)
11 The Statues Of Nowhere (06:40)
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TOTALS : 100,3 MB / 59:06 min
R E L E A S E I N F O
I抦 turning into some kind of 慶ohesion?junkie. Every dark ambient album that doesn抰 have
a linear or abstract theme, that doesn抰 have a discernible thread, that doesn抰 in some way
present itself as a self-tied package plumped with consideration and significant import
seems to fall below the line for me. Promoting such an opinion is veering dangerously into
the arms of pretentiousness, but at the same time that抯 what happens when you listen to a
lot of a particular genre. It抯 like eating from the same caf?over and over again: if they
change even the slightest ingredient in your time-honoured stock lunch choice it抯 not going
to go unnoticed. And these days, as dark ambient is turning corners into the realms of the
experimental, dub and modern classical, the pressure is on more than ever for the
traditional side of the genre to come up with something special every time.
No label should know more about this than Cyclic Law. I抳e been a massive fan of their
output for years and to me, nobody knows their proverbial onions more than Frederic Arbour抯
sole enterprise, crafted lovingly from ten years of dedication and expertise in the area. I
was especially excited at the prospect of a new release from Vestigial, whose last album
揟ranslucent Communion?saw the light of day way back in 2008 when the production factory at
Cold Meat Industry was far more oiled and prolific, which can hardly be said these days with
any release being spat out of the gates half-chewed and promoted half-heartedly. This is not
the case for Cyclic Law who seem to be in their prime and at the top of their game, with
successful release after release delivered gleaming and galvanised to the expectant dark
ambient-awaiting thralls. And if most people can抰 wait to get their hands on a CL album the
day it hits the record shops, I抦 the woollied Thermos-bearer bunking outside the night
before the gates are even due to clank open.
So I抦 slightly disappointed in this new offering from both Vestigial and Cyclic Law, both
in terms of consistency and imagination. This work, which comprises four ?count them, four
?different source releases on one album seems to be born out of necessity rather than fresh
creative spark. Solar/Aeon, which at least makes no apologies for its ingredients, is made
up of the Solar and Aeon EPs released through New Sun Recordings in 2007 and 2009 as well as
two additional tracks, 揝ubstorm抯 Curtains?and 揚ale Statues of Nowhere?which were both
released as compilation numbers for Saar Maas and Old Europa Cafe. As a result the whole
thing is a rather flung-together gesture and makes me wonder what the hell Vestigial has
been doing since 2008. Italy can抰 be completely devoid of dark ambient inspiration, I抦
sure there are plenty of disused factories, bunkers, abandoned houses and exposed areas of
umber grassland behind chain-link fences which can provide ideas for new material.
As a result of the different sources behind this release, the cohesion factor is absent,
with the record throwing us different kinds of lines from the same hand, be that dark
ambient or drone or industrial, and in some places there抯 a martial feel too. Fear not,
it抯 all highly professionally done, there抯 no doubt whatsoever that when Vestigial does
create and he抯 not sitting somewhere in mid-Europe in the middle of a creative blackout,
the results are very decent indeed. The tracks that make up Aeon in particular are the most
thought-provoking and emotive, with 揇agda Rising?and 揟he Grey Constellation?being
especially haunting and ominous pieces, layered with sheet upon sheet of texture. Things get
a little busier for the Solar section of the album as we抮e left to inhabit a crushingly
dark and brittle void, too opaque and impenetrable for the sun or suns outside to pierce
through, but the cracks and specks of noisy sound that speckle the aural field hint at their
presence somewhere. If this is indeed Vestigial抯 concept it抯 a nicely played-out one
dark, unforgiving vacuum of ghoulish emptiness. The album therefore bears a striking
resemblance to three major influences, early-mid period Raison d掙tre, Gustaf Hildebrand and
Lustmord, but there抯 still enough of Vestigial抯 own ideas in the mix to make it an
inspiration rather than an outright homage to both.
This is one of those situations where the whole isn抰 greater than the sum of its parts.
Individually each track is a highly well-constructed piece and Vestigial is no stranger to
shaping fine dark ambient tracks with depth, pace and feeling. However, due to the large
enough of different arenas things have been drafted in from, Solar/Aeon doesn抰 really have
the right feel of consistency running through it, and though on first listen it might seem
like quite a complex and intense venture, further experiences will show it to be little more
than over-busy. There抯 still a good amount of material here to please most listeners,
especially those less familiar with the genre overall, but Vestigial needs to get producing
a work that has a temporal mind all of its own, rather than those from different periods
that show a release like this up. We need a second album, a second great act in the work of
this talented dark ambient artist, and in the meantime Solar/Aeon is little more than a
tantalising bridge.
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