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SHRINE - The final Asylum

Format: CD
Label & Cat.Number: Corvus Records CRVS004CD
Release Year: 2005
Note: Debut-album of the great Bulgarian Drone Rec-artist! Digipack
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Wunderbare Melancholie! Hinter SHRINE steckt der Bulgare Hristo Gospodinov, der einigen Hörern hoffentich von der Drone 7 "Distorted Legends" (DR-89) bekannt ist. Sein CD-Debut "The Final Asylum" erschien bereits 2005, wo sich auf 5 langen Tracks minimale und sehr emotionale "post-industrielle" Synth-Drones ausbreiten, die mitunter in allmählicher Verdichtung immer monumentaler & rauschiger werden, hyper melancholisch & einsam erhaben, mit Anklängen an BAD SECTOR, DESIDERII MARGINIS oder RAISON D'ETRE.
Definitiver Tip für Fans von "emotional drones" und dark ambient !!

" 'The final asylum' will take you into a hollow refuges lying down among the weedy ruins of deserted cities, and further, above an endless fields of rust, through an isolated cryogenic prisons, into a machine core, the source, where the history of mankind's future starts. On the borderline between ambient and industrial, the five tracks are telling us a stories of an world far in time, an world of iron plants and mechanical birds, unreal, hushed in its own rumble, waiting for its silent end beneath the rays of dying artificial suns. An world that can be. Perhaps." [label info]

" 'The final asylum' will take you into a hollow refuges lying down among the weedy ruins of deserted cities, and further, above an endless fields of rust, through an isolated cryogenic prisons, into a machine core, the source, where the history of mankind's future starts. On the borderline between ambient and industrial, the five tracks are telling us a stories of an world far in time, an world of iron plants and mechanical birds, unreal, hushed in its own rumble, waiting for its silent end beneath the rays of dying artificial suns. An world that can be. Perhaps." [label info]

"Well this was certainly no surprise. Actually, yeah, it kind of was. This is one of the best "dark" ambient albums to enter my grasp in some time. I wouldn't necessarily call it dark...or ambient though. Most Dark Ambient that I hear has little structure to it. This is more like...pure atmosphere. Ethereal. There are a ton of rather strange noises combined to create an incredibly beautiful picture of future digital worlds overrun and overtaken once again by the earth and her forests. The Final Asylum is just incredibly atmospheric, it almost feels like you're flowing through these worlds in dense fogs, viewing the world alone in all its grandeur beauty for the first time without human intervention, but just their ruins left to scar the face.
I say this album wasn't so much of a surprise because the artwork struck me as intense and majestic. It certainly was the standout artwork in the last package the I received for review. The artwork consists of a man resembling Gavin Rossdale in his younger years dressed in gothic attire and walking deep in the back of what looks to be an abandoned wearhouse of some sort. The light shining through the large windows at the top of the building nearly engulfs everything, turnins most of what it shines on a brilliant yellow to white. Such a solitary, lonely existence for such an eloquently dressed man. Think Sephiroth in Final Fantasy alone in Aries' cathedral. Holy shit, did I just say that? I really am a bigger dork than I thought. Don't hold that against me though, its from my childhood.
The music isn't all lollipops and rainbows though. A good deal of it takes on a darker composure, resembling industrial noise, but still holding back enough to not be considered harsh. Its like the clouds roll over the humanity-barren beautiful landscapes to welcome whatever evil destructive force destroyed this world to begin with. A world where that same lit-up wearhouse suddenly turns pitch black, welcoming those creatures whom we could only imagine in our worst nightmares or a late night session of Silent Hill gone terribly, terribly wrong. If you're looking for beautiful instrumental music that isn't necessarily...instrumental... This is your gem. Brilliant ambient music with enough atmosphere to make any skull fill with mists and obliterate all over its' hosts body and surroundings. Corvus records is another new label on the dark ambient front, only this one definitely seems to deserve your attention and support. Shrine, also a new act, is another entity to support. Being from Bulgaria, there can't be too much demand in their home country. So its up to you to help out. Keep in mind this is also just what I felt this album put forth through its music. The artist himself states that the album was originally a soundtrack to an impressive drawing done by a friend of his representing the fusion between man and machine. Take it as you please, this is art after all." [Sage, Heathen Harvest]