I love the label description of this album, “Twisted, sick and utterly bleak ambient/songwriting/noise excursion through the worlds of forbidden memories, forsaken desires and unavoidable human misery. Songs for all the ghosts shifting through empty rooms.” This band is actually a side project for the members of Canaan, but with Giannai Pedretti from Colloquio on vocals. It is their third release, and according to Google Translate this album is called ‘Taste of Stone and Light’. It is ambient, but with a Black Metal bleakness that is prevalent throughout, and it creates a very dark and cold world that is best enjoyed without distractions, preferably in a dark room while playing this on headphones. It isn’t something that responds well to bright sunlight or being treated as background, as when that happens it can just disappear and that is a total disservice as in many ways this is a considerable achievement as an album.
Each song is numbered (from ‘XXI’ to ‘XXX’ – you’ll never guess what they were called on the first two albums..) as opposed to titled, and that also works in the sense that this is a total piece that needs to be played as a whole. One would never just dip in and out, putting just one song on a playlist for example, this is all about going deep into the world of Neronoia and only coming out when hypothermia was setting in. The word “powerful’ seems totally out of context when discussing something that in many ways is so ethereal, but it is the only way to describe just how emotive (for something that is bleak and devoid of life) this really is.
www.eibonrecords.com
