- Art music
- Ambient
- Avant-garde
- Neoclassical
- Drone
- Dark ambient
- Conceptual
- Experimentalism
- Ambient drone
Comment: this
handful of tracks is dedicated to one of the greatest, Alexander the
Great who similarly to other outstanding rulers and generals spilled
blood to fasten his name in the annals of the history. In fact, as a
person he was driven by inferior characteristics like low self-esteem
and later megalomania, he probably hated everyone and everything,
obviously the teachings and ethics by the greatest one Aristotle
didn't reach him. The people around him were just pawns to fulfil his
own ambitions. Conceptually the purpose of the Swedish musician Henri
Summanen's purpose is to fantasise about the feelings Alexander felt
in these crucial moments while occupying new countries, territories
and civilizations. Musically it is an epic expression through the mix
of ennobling droning and shimmery stringed instruments and
reverberant applications behind the sound. One can hear extended
chords being stretched over the drones thereby building up an
impressive mystical milieu. Furthermore, variegated sunshiny and
shadowy elements allow a propulsive, dynamical sensation which
overwhelms the course. Inevitably it goes beyond the borders of the
aforementioned styles by straddling on more technical (and less
emotive) approaches like sound art and electro-acoustic music. The
enchanting outing is a part of the discography of a Russian,
Svetlogorsk-based imprint, Østpreussen.
