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7/29/2011

Tobias Faar - Hidden Locations (2011)

8.9

/Minimal, Soundscapes, Dark ambient, Noir, Dystopbient, Sound art/

Comment: The first of those 5 tracks does embark on with bleak, minimal skrees (of grasshoppers?) and bouncing stereo effects and barely “visible” burning around it (back to the nature, isn`t?). However, later all of that gets evolved into a more elemental maelstrom, incorporating more lush ambiences and vivid sonic effects and piano chords for its sake. Thudding and elliptical bass lines and shapes, malicious droning and strangling spasms and vast distances followed are the next characteristics of the album. Yet, inspite of a writhing bulk of sounds the whole brings to fruition itself as an example of B/W, noir-filled motion. Moreover, it could hold good as soundtrack for a sci-fi/horror movie.