6/16/2011
Sobria Ebrietas - The Secret Chord (2009)
/Dark ambient, Martial music, Ambient noise, Experimentalism, Soundscape, Dystopbient, Avant-garde, Minimalism/
Comment: Sobria Ebrietas was born around 1995-96 in France as a side-project to such band as Absolutely Curtains. Since then SE has been a profilic plodder, developing his vista about murky and noiseful soundscapes. Here is one album being released under the cult label Abyssa (now being defunct one already). Indeed, The Secret Chord used to "talk" about an almostly omnipotent merge of lush noise, epic dark ambient/dystopbient, "shouting" lopsided soundscapes, exorcized minimal and microtonal music, threatening echoes of martial fields, and reverberating spoken word ghosts. A profound set indeed.