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HALL OF MIRRORS - Altered Nights

Format: do-CD
Label & Cat.Number: Malignant Records TUMORCD54
Release Year: 2012
Note: the third album by this Italian duo consisting of AMON (Andrea Marutti) and NIMH (Giuseppe Verticchio), very dark & amorph ambience with a post industrial touch.. " At its core, this is dark ambient, but with its roughly edged, mildly corrosive machine edges and cascading factory whir".. feat. contributons of VESTIGIAL, NEW RISEN THRONE, K11 / PIETRO RIPARBELLI.. great release !!
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"3rd CD from the acclaimed dark ambient collaboration between Andrea Marutti ( Amon, Never Known, among others) and Giuseppe Verticchio (Nimh).
Spread out over two CDs and totaling over 100 minutes, there’s a lot to absorb here; organic, textural ambience that’s murky and abstract, uncurling like tendrils of smoke before coalescing into a simulacrum of shadowy figures, to turbulent, more immersive post industrial sounds that prowl the depths of subterranean caverns and forgotten, still radioactive ruins. At its core, this is dark ambient, but with its roughly edged, mildly corrosive machine edges and cascading factory whir, Hall of Mirrors moves into a much more active and cerebral sonic realm. Features contributions from Vestigial , New Risen Throne, and Pietro Riparbelli/ K11, among others. 2 discs in 6 panel eco-wallet, with 4 tracks on one disc, and one 45 minute track on the second. A must for fans of Troum, Terra Sancta, early Zoviet France, and of course all related Andrea Marutti projects." [label info]



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"The third release by Hall Of Mirrors, although it might be the second time I hear them. This is duo of Andrea Marutti (sometimes known as Amon and Never Known, from the Afe Records label) and Giuseppe Verticchio (who we know as Nimh also). This album, with guests as New Risen Throne, K11, Vestigial continues where we left of with 'Forgotten Realm' (see Vital Weekly 731), in the world of dark ambient, but not as massive as we sometimes find this on albums as released by Malignant. In between those dense tapestries of sound, we also hear a lot of loops of sound, repetitive, machine like, like a jack hammer, but without the true industrial meaning of the word machines. Lots of electronics are, analogue synthesizers, effects, but also samples, field recordings, drones, treatments and above all reverb. Not necessarily put to the right use, but its effective in creating that artificial space that this kind of music always seem to have. In a curious way this is quite like a collage of drone/ambient music, rather than something that organically grows out of a few elements of sound, expanding beyond itself, growing larger than life, which is what ambient usually does. 'Magmatic Response' ends with a lot of reverb of guitars and is the most noisy track in these five pieces, while 'Immaterial Bodies' is the most rhythmic effort - which seems to me a rarity in the world of Malignant. Throughout a varied bunch of pieces, of which the only new thing seems to be that collage/montage like use of sounds, but overall works out like a fine, if not always the most surprising album of dark ambient music. Fine quality overall." [FdW/Vital Weekly]