/Avant-garde, Dark ambient, Experimentalism, Noise, Illbient, Avant-electronica, Abstract, Hauntology, Dystopbient, Avant-industrial, Martial music, Neoclassical, Abstract electronica, Epic/
Comment: Lanark is a composer from Buenos Aires, Argentina who has let his recognizable trace on the field of experimental/avant-garde/electronica/dark ambient/neoclassical music. He has issued lots of albums and shared the record labels (Comfort Stand; WM Recordings) with such legends as Big City Orchestra, R Stevie Moore, Dan Deacon, Chenard Walcker, Phil Reavis, Roy "Chicky" Arad, Jan Turkenberg, Happy Elf and others. However, this 18-track opus takes on an epic vision observed from the dystopic, oppressive point of view. The compositions are filled in with endless, dirge-drenched echoes and undertones as if the world were conquered by ghastly, truly malicious creatures. Indeed, his notches extend from pessimistic, glacial glow-dazzled ambient to wraith-alike (neo)classical conjuring at the portals of death. By now and then Lanark used to exploit more tenuous, bleak electronica, reminding of the first steps made by electronic music pioneers once many decades ago (for instance, Desmond Leslie, Pierre Schaeffer, Vladimir Ussachevsky). All in all, you must listen to the legend`s classic one.
