- Dark ambient
- Dystopbient
- Epic
- Microsound
- Ambient
drone
- Minimalism
- Avant-garde
- Experimentalism
- Soundscape
- Psycho-acoustic
- Drone
- Sound
art
- Microtonal
- Abstract
- Post-industrial
Comment: meritorious Cousin
Silas from the UK (born in 1959) continues his tenure on CerebralRift
with the second issue
Urge. These three immense compositions
which eventually clock in at a 74 minute are the follow-up to
Observations From Earth And Beyond (2015) though the
touch of the brand new one is markedly more pessimistic and sombre
due to austere, dystopic seeds within slowly undulating drones which
used to change in a manner as if impending doom and apocalypse.
Cousin Silas dispenses with New Age-y and classical music-related
sounds as he did on the previous one. On the other side, it sustains
readily majesty and epic which on occasion take over to appear in a
more lighter and shiny mode. Undoubtedly it is essential to focus on
minutiae because the main course just got described above. There are
some echoes and hisses here and there, some bubbly electronic sounds,
some microscopic noises and focal effects here and there. The title track is somehow
more heavy-weighted than the rest of the outing as if gravitating
towards the core of Earth. In a more indirect sense, it rotates and
moves towards the black hole, towards death as if depicting the life
of a human being metaphorically, depicting one`s urge to get passed away positively through the development and contribution. Of course you need either good
earphones or a qualitative stereo system to enjoy all of that. And of
course, you shall have to crank up the volume of your stereo system
to get involved in that ill-omened magic. I guess it is formally
music, basically it is the result of a sound processing,
ideologically its purpose is to provide evidence about a tight
relation between the development of science and music. Our sensations
are controlled by the machines ultimately. That`s OK if the result is
so exquisite and refined as the issue between my ears right now. it is the urge of mine as well.
