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VESTIGIAL - Translucent Communion

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Cyclic Law 255th Cycle Release Year: 2025 Note: re-issue of debut CMI album from 2008, a classic of threatening, massive dark ambient! New artwork, lim. 200 - *An Ominous Classic from the Depths of Italy’s Underground Returns; Translucent Communion carved its place in the genre with an approach that was subtle, textural, and deeply atmospheric...the album evoked vast, desolate landscapes, tectonic movements, boiling magma, and icy voids with restrained precision and haunting elegance.* - 200 copies only Price (incl. 19% VAT): €14.00 More Info "Vestigial Announces Long-Awaited CD Reissue of Cult Dark Ambient Debut "Translucent Communion". An Ominous Classic from the Depths of Italy’s Underground Returns. Italy’s shadowy sound architect Vestigial, the artistic alias of Peppe Ferrillo, announces the long-awaited CD reissue of his 2008 dark ambient debut, "Translucent Communion". A cult favorite in Italy’s experimental music scene and long out of print, this reissue brings back the bleak meditations and apocalyptic soundscapes that first established Ferrillo as a visionary voice in ambient music. Translucent Communion carved its place in the genre with an approach that was subtle, textural, and deeply atmospheric. Unlike many of its peers, Vestigial’s debut refrained from relying on standard droning techniques or gothic theatrics. Instead, the album evoked vast, desolate landscapes, tectonic movements, boiling magma, and icy voids with restrained precision and haunting elegance. Critics praised the album’s minimalist ethos and meditative power. Now, nearly two decades later, Translucent Communion returns to physical form, presented in a new CD edition with Ferrillo’s own updated design work, bleak, elegant, and deeply interconnected with the sonic content, reinforcing his identity not only as a musician but as a complete aesthetic auteur. With a growing international appreciation for dark ambient and minimalist electronic music, this reissue offers both longtime fans and new listeners a chance to revisit (or discover) a defining work in Vestigial’s haunting catalogue, a debut that whispered of extinction, cosmic indifference, and what lingers in the silence beyond civilization. CD edition of 200 copies in 6 panel Digisleeve. 6 Tracks. Running Time 47:20 EAN: 3770033798362" https://cycliclaw.bandcamp.com/album/translucent-communion "Having developed a strong cult following with their limited CD-R, a split LP, and compilation works, Vestigial (Italy) come forth with their debut CD poised to establish themselves among the dark ambient elite. The Translucent Communion - a reflection of the hollow and imaginary archetype of our civilization, a blackened view on the humanity falling into a perfect nothingness of technocratic illusions, a refined and well designed disharmony for our next generation. 6 tracks that arise from the shadows, then spread and sweep across a barren, wind swept landscape, creating a sound so thick and texturally deep it swallows the earth like a venomous fog. Comparisons to Raison D'Etre, Lustmord and Bad Sector are reference points, but only hint at the massive potential of Vestigial. Presented in a lavishly designed 6-panel, partially varnished digipak." [original label info Cold Meat Industry]