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AHASVERUS - Ten is the number

Format: CD-R Label & Cat.Number: Ahasverus Records Release Year: 2006 Note: experimental / electro-acoustic drone from Sweden, to discover! Lim. 100 prof. cover Price (incl. 19% VAT): €8.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info Sehr guter experimenteller drone / dark ambient aus Schweden mit elektro-akustischem Einschlag, d.h. viele cut-ups & Wechsel, weniger urlange Flächen, eher auf einzelne Sounds konzentriert; trotzdem sehr dunkel & einnehmend, grollend, erdig, mächtig, mysteriös... In der Tat kommt Henrik Summanen, der Mann hinter AHASVERUS, eigentlich aus der Elektro-Akustik / Neue Musik-Ecke, öffnet sich aber jetzt dem "Underground"... sehr zu empfehlen, da hier das Genre eindrucksvoll erweitert wird! "Behind the name Ahasverus one finds Henrik Summanen, this time in a more soundscaping mood than usual. Ten is the Number is style-wise somewhere between dark ambient and electro-acoustics, in a very interesting way. It is a space built of composed pieces that create a singular scene. Summanen's trade marks, waves of massively rolling bubbly background drones, are omnipresent throughout the album. From an ambient perspective one might say that all tracks are very much alike, but as compositions they are actually highly different. The finest interpretations of this concept are on the cliche-named but otherwise magnificent "Nothingness Lies Coiled in the Heart of being" and on the ending track, the retro-sound piece "The Long Angel". All of the rest is great stuff, too, especially when listened to as a whole album. That way the nuances benefit from being compared with similar, yet still very different ideas on the other tracks. There is one exception, "Formation", which uses things like broken-down chorals. It breaks the mood, but not too badly. At least from the viewpoint of an industrial critic, it seems that the further Summanen dares to extend his concepts, the more interesting music he produces. He is clearly an artist capable of seeing the best parts on both sides of the musical fence. This is an album definitely worth noticing, especially for friends of drone-based music." [Jiituomas, Kuolleen Musiikin Yhdistys (Finland)]