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HERBST9 From A Dark Chasm Below (CD LOKI) Herbst9 create complex, textural ambience, consisting of layer upon layer of kinetic, luminous tones and ephemeral nuances of time, sounding not unlike label-mates Inade, though with a completely different agenda. Born in the destitute fringes and moist jungles of Asia, Herbst9 sail the tenacious undercurrent of past indiscretions and potential future travesties (waiting, patiently waiting…), homing in on the timbres of the forgotten, erased from memory, horrors of humanity. "Ab Ovo" sets the rickety stage, upon which a radiant ambience glowers, augmented with the brushed with solitude intonations of monks, and slivers of coarse memory. The ambience throughout seems leery of human allegiance, though the inhuman impressions are still built on a purely human foundation (a Pandora's Box of sonic possibilities) as layers are melded into, folded over, and unraveled within, other layers. |