- Dark ambient
- Illbient
- Microtonal
- Drone
- Post-industrial
- Minimalism
- Avant-garde
- Ambient drone
- Experimentalism
- Abstract
Comment: this
album consists of one long-running composition called
Wassilij
Andrejewitsch Brechunov & Nikita. Dominic Razlaff aka DR's
15-minute track is inspired by the same-titled novel by Lev Tolstoy
and the cover print depicts the great Russian writer being
illustrated by another outstanding Russian cultural icon Ilya Repin.
This is an overcoming composition by providing different functional
aspects and different explanations and interpretations. While having
listened to it I was reading Stanislav Lem's
Solaris and it
resonated with the situation while the protagonist Kelvin was falling
down towards the surface of the planet Solaris. All you can hear over
there it is sonically very monotonous moving emitting eerie and
ghastly sentiments as if foretelling something negative is going to
happen soon. It can be interpreted as if moving either through a
black hole or one is starving in Outer Space because the human being
is not expected to come and start dwelling on another populated
planet. As one song by the Estonian punk juggernauts J.M.K.E
poignantly stated /there are around a plenty of good planets but we
are not welcomed to come over there/. One simple punk song can say
much more than a sophisticated yet magniloquent philosophical text or
discourse or a misleading vision. And it is not going to happen
anyway because the human kind is currently in a profound crisis, the
conflict between the left-wing and right-wing politicians and
intellectuals has obviously never been so intense and hostile as now.
One greedy devil is demonised by another and vice versa. In the
current situation it is very purgative and transcendental to
experience such a black-hued masterpiece as
Herr und knecht by
the very prolific German ambient producer DR. The strongest point of
this release is to transform all those abstract post-industrial
inclined drones into sensations where one can perceive warmth,
majesty, horror, repulsion and more or less positive or adverse
feelings. In this context less is very much. The issue is a part of
the discography of Murmure Intemporel.
