2/10/2012
aboombong - Taking Blue Mountain By Stages (2011)
/Krautrock, Ambient rock, Dark ambient, post-rock, Ambient noise, Experimental rock, Drone rock, Space rock, Crossover, Epic, Trance rock, Noise rock, Ambient, Avant-rock/
Comment: J. C. Thorne is a Seattle-based musician/unsung experimentalist who is being active for many decades and has appeared in a batch of projects. However, aboombong is his main project where he used to show up his ingenious characteristics (listen to his ten-points albums like amnemonic, and asynchronic). This time Thorne blends resonating space/krautrock-ish epic noise with more or less dark ambient-alike layers (or is it ascended into symphonic endeavours already?) and mellow yet propulsive industrial rock/avant-noise somewhat similarly to the late period of Einstuerzende Neubauten (indeed, his timbre and singing manner do resemble a little bit of Blixa Bargeld`s distinct ones). Additionally to Neubauten you can draw parallels upon the likes of Spacemen 3, Spiritualized (trance/drone rock elements), Children Of The Drone`s most cosmic incantations and even Tim Hecker`s borealic landscapes. It is longing and powerfully appealing at the same time. Ultimately, if you discover J.C Thorne`s art for yourselves the history will (partly) be re-written.