A short one...
The ever-productive sound-artist (bleak) never disappointed me with any of his many outfits, and this one, Carrion, being one of his most fruitful ones, comes up once more with a new piece of psychologically-unacceptable fairness. It’s a lengthy one-piece record, clocking 37:09 minutes. Oh yes, adorable visual artistry, by the way.
Aimless is, like the cover art might refer to, focusing of the balance of light and darkness, or: of enlightenment and obscurity. Hope versus despair, chains versus free will, you know, the contrast of extremes. That goes as well for the sonic output.
More than ever before, Aimless turns out to be a one-directional, somewhat monotonous (note: this is NOT a negative ting, at least in this effort’s case!) auditory experience, rooted within somewhat ‘soft’ and ethereal, long-stretched-wavy floats of ambient sound-texturing, creating an autumnal feeling, for any sun’s warmth or summer’s light might be absorbed by a visionary revelation of endarkening nature.
…damn, what an abstract description – yet then again, it surely does define the introvert and introspective essence. This ‘track’ indeed rumbles forth on intra-hypnotic, mentally tranquillizing and deep-sensory spheres of inner struggles; one’s disability to recognize reality from deception or betrayal might be defined through these sounds. But hey, it’s an almost calming awareness, for Aimless confronts you, dear listener, with a sensation of concession and admission.
Purely aurally defined, Aimless is like a permanently yet modestly evolving soundscape, based on a desolate, even isolationist tradition of Winter Synth inspired tristesse. Do not expect bright lights or eruptive experimentation whatsoever. Softly-waving drones and semi-somnifacient Ambiental structures are canalized into (or towards) a river of sonic amicability, although this candy-spheric approach being enfolded into a shroud of disconsolate yet softly-fondling tidiness.
This ‘track’ comes with a continuously progression / evolution / variation, with a modest division into, or throughout, different closely related chapters. Therefor, repetitive or somnolent notions are supervacaneous. Aimless explores the realms of the subconscious, of the protagonist’s psyche when / while investigating the Inner Eye. Or: this recording acts like a soundtrack for intra-conscious and post-transcendental reflection / awareness, through almost forty minutes of airy-fairy and soporific Ambient.
https://carrionnoise.bandcamp.com/album/aimless
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