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First I’d like to mention the beautiful and evocative but also rather disturbing and scary cover art that graces this 6-panel digipack release. It seems this nightmare scenery doesn’t predict much good for the second cd-album by Phaenon, aka Szymon Tankiewics. The concept album “His Master’s Voice” is inspired by Stanislaw Lem’s book, which is centred around the efforts by scientists to decode, translate and understand a series of extraterrestrial transmissions. Well, due to the previous I did expect some macabre and pitch dark drone textures, but encountered four lenghty, slowly evolving episodes roaming in a kind of gritty and highly organic space ambient territory. Dark ambient minimalist and strong desolate undercurrents lie just around the corner though, as the dense, shifting soundscapes keep morphing on an on with lots of reverb. To me, this spacious longform work is a dark subway into the infinite, which unfortunately drags on too much to keep my attention. A second listen to “His Master’s Voice” through a good pair of head phones, as recommended by the label, didn’t change that. |
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