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SKORPIO, NIKO - Escape from Heaven

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Some Place Else SPECD06036 Release Year: 2006 Price (incl. 19% VAT): €13.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info Überraschendes neues Album von NIKO SKORPIO, der sich allen Einordnungsversuchen weiterhin erfolgreich entzieht: Schizophrenes Stimmengemurmel, Mantra-Drones, plötzlich Metal-Riffs & Beats, cooler Sprechgesang, Hypno-Loops, faraway-Sphären, orientale Melodien, digitale Verfremdungen, jedes Stück hier ist anders als der Vorgänger, eine Mischung aus dark ambient industrial, doom-metal, und experimentellem ambient, abgründig as hell !! “Curious as always, I wanted to hear the new Niko Skorpio record, but I thought it would have been better in the hands of Niels Mark Pedersen, our fellow Vital Weekly reviewer for the more dark and rhythmic music. But always check out yourself, and you may have guessed right: I like it. I expected some doom and gloom along the lines of Cold Meat Industry and yes, there are a couple of tracks that could have been easily made by, say, In Slaughter Natives, throughout this album there is a strong and healthy sense of experimentalism. Niko Skorpio, the man in disguise behind the Some Place Else label, has a vast catalogue of works that go back to the late nineties, but in his musical approach he harks back further, at least on this album. He states that his album can be described as 'industrial music' standing in the traditions of Throbbing Gristle, Coil or Psychic TV. But Niko Skorpio plays his version of industrial music with digital means. Just like his big examples, Skorpio doesn't play 'just' noise, there are also moments in which things are quiet and introspective, such as in the intense opening piece 'Dawn: The Gathering Of Vultures'. Some rhythm plays a role, and things start to sound militant and upright. Skorpio has made a richly varied album of various moods and styles that makes however a solid and unified impression. A great album of turning an 'old' style into something 'new' and with an own signature.” [Fdw / Vital Weekly]