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NON ETHOS - Syk Asfalt

Format: CD-R

Label & Cat.Number: AFE Records afe076lcd

Release Year: 2007

Note: so far unreleased album of a NORTHAUNT-sideproject!! oversized full-colour / fold-out cardboard cover / lim. 100 copies

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NON ETHOS ist das Vorgängerprojekt von NORTHAUNT, "SYK ASFALT" war bisher unveröffentlicht und stellt ein beeindruckendes Album über 'Vergänglichkeit" und die allmähliche Erosion aller Dinge dar, die lautlos geschieht. Stylistisch eine Mischung aus dark ambient und Geräusch / field recording-drone, abwechslungsreiche und spannende Geräuschmusik, frei von Klischees, in menschenleere Sphären driftend... ein weiteres Highlight auf AFE !

"Non Ethos was a side-project of Norwegian Hærleif Langås (...now active as Northaunt) up to around 2003. It was a no-rules project that dived deep into experimental soundworks, drones and isolationism. It was just like a musical terrain vague, undefined but still loaded with hidden meanings. During its existence, a few Non Ethos discs were privately released in very small editions by the author himself. One of them, "Hidden Structures, Lost Places" was re-released by Afe back in 2000; now it's the turn of "Syk Asfalt", which comes in a completely remastered and revised version.
According to the author's words, this album is a meditation on time, urban emptiness and nature's destructive forces, the ever ongoing erosion, the crack in the asphalt that slowly spreads, unheard, unseen, in the urban nights, sometimes patched by street workers but never stopped, just like we can't mend the cracks in ourselves. "Syk Asfalt" begins with the homonymous title track and its grating stones backed up by a disquieting drone and looped segments of more uncertain activities. The black ambience of "Yellow Light" is constructed on reverberating samples rid by hum and electric buzzes. The tension created by this combination is very high. "Sleeping Streets" is based on a looped field-recording taken at dawn that creates a strong sense of waiting and a misterious presence which is finally revealed at the end of the track. Both "Regn" and "Erosion" are built on recordings of rain matched with more drones and ambiences created by manipulated stones and gravel. They suggest a feeling of impotence and resignation, just like being stuck and lost behind a window watching one's own dreams drowning in the pouring rain. A human voice rips up high-pitched sounds walking on "Snow" describing the experience, just before getting lost inside a white desert leaving a treated organ drone behind itself... A short version of "Isar" was already included on the "No Abiding Places" compilation last year. Offered here is the full eighteen minutes version which serves as a more minimal / isolationist conclusion to an album of great value. The whole "Syk Asfalt" keeps its promises from the beginning to the end, and Non Ethos has the great merit of being able to create such a strong and evocative record with just a few, but very effective, elements...." [label description]

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