- Experimental
folk
- Free folk
- Ambient
- Drone folk
- New Weird France
- Avant-folk
- Epic
- Post-folk
- Minimalism
- Psych-folk
- Ambient folk
- Improvised music
- Drone
Comment:
I can remember for my first hearing about Aldebaran was related to a
Soviet movie,
The Mystery of the Third Planet (1981)
being accompanied by a great electronic musical background of
Aleksandr Zatsepin (which is now sought by many music lovers
worldwide). Aldebaran is one of the most luminous stars in the
Universe and it is something which inspired the enigmatic French duo
of Mehdi Ameziane and Solange Gularte (being active as NSB since the
end of the 90s) to create this 25-track magnum opus. Musically it is
thoroughly hypnotic without any exceptions full of droning,
intensified guitar and cello chords and lofty feedback-trodden
reverberations in the course of almost six hours. A smouldering
symphony as an output for something colossal and beautiful. Beyond
all the sonorous sounds and faint effects (at times one hears a
bagpipe, a melodica, a flute, electro-acoustic clanging, vowels and
spoken words) one could discern the structure of songs used to rely
on minimal ground through smooth shifts thereby providing a strong
wondrous impact on a listener's perception and consciousness. In some
sense, it is like a folk/drone version of vaporwave music due to
strongly retrodelic, past anchored timbres at first sight yet
nevertheless all the result seems to go ahead of our time, go ahead
of us like very distant stellar objects do shine to us like being
mixed up of reality and mysticism. The whole (sound) resonates
physically and seemingly consciously through air. It is called cosmic
om, isn't? The album inserts healing awe and purgative wonder to get
distracted from surrounding crap and start feeling oneself again to
be an integrated part of this tremendous solemn village. In some
sense, unfortunately, the release is a bittersweet elegy to our
malignant existence on Earth (the issue is finished off with an
emblematically entitled track,
The Drowned Church). The
magnificent issue is a part of the discography of Vulpiano. Simply
irresistible magical glimpse.
