Drone Records

SYSTEM MORGUE - Feu

Format: CD

Label & Cat.Number: Zhelezobeton ZHBD-04

Release Year: 2014

Note: recommended transcension guitar/bass drones from Moscow, the first CD for this project after one MC and some web-releases; inspired by the literarl works of CHARLES BAUDELAIRE and ILYA MASODOV, five long psychedelic dark drone tracks in the vein of "N", FEAR FALLS BURNING, EXIT IN GREY or TROUM are created, totally suspended and with nice harmonic & disharmonic developments underneath...

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" "Feu" is the first CD of the Moscow-based project System Morgue which has been active since 2006 and released one cassette "Hekatombaion" (2010, Heliophagia), as well as plenty of web-releases. In its early period the project relied on aggressive and pushing sound in vein of harsh noise and power electronics, but later changed to milder sonorities and finally came to the now traditional form of guitar drone ambient.

Using only guitar and bass as sound sources as well as a chain of effects, the man behind this project - Peter L. - has created five compositions the mood of which varies from uneasy, slightly distorted soundscapes to gentle enshrouding harmonics. The lingering drone of vibrating strings, rare accents of psychedelic chords, slow semi-melodic loops - everything that a real connoisseur of dark meditative music needs. The album is inspired by the literary works of Ilya Masodov and Charles Baudelaire.

Sound mastering done by Sergey Uak-Kib (Kshatriy | http://kshatriy.pro), artwork of the 4-panel digipak - by Kol Belov (http://kollaps.ru)." [label info]

"Odd: I briefly glanced at the cover of the CD by System Morgue, noted the fact that some Peter L played guitar and bass, but I didn't register it well enough, so after a while of playing this and thinking what to write - notes included 'dark', 'drones', 'think Malignant Records' - I returned to the screen to pen that down, and then I saw that guitar and bass reference again. By then I have landed at the final track of this CD, 'Octobre', which is indeed a bit like what you would expect of guitar and bass (and a bit of voice also); a sort of post-punk piece, if you will. In the other four pieces this is not really the case. Here we find long, sustaining, stringed sounds, of ringing and singing guitar sounds captured in a labyrinth (no beginning, no end) of electronics. In 'Moulin Des Etoiles' the bass, coupled with a delay pedal, can be recognized, but here it swings like an endless pendulum of repeating sounds. All of this is obviously dark and melancholic. Ambient and industrial,
but also psychedelic; I can imagine a mind-altering state if one is in the right mode, or under the influence of some drugs of some kind. Very nice music altogether but also nothing much news under the drone sun." [FdW/Vital WEekly]