Music you can touch
I’m down in a well and my voice can only carry so far. Raindrops take their long decent down to my face, as I look up at the overcast sky, nicely framed by the well’s circular mouth.
I blink and I am back where I started, sludging through the dirty city streets, recovering from a blast of winter. The air is cold and the silence is deaden.
Blink again and I am in some other state, my emotions are hazy colors smeared gently across an infinitely dark canvas. As my thoughts race, the colors change and eventually fade, and soon everything is black, becomes black.
The sounds carry on, through all these stages I stumble into, music that you can touch as it is so dense with ambiance, dread and strange beauty, droning with inhuman but meditative intensity.
This is the heavy ambient of Earth, Final and Sunn 0))), three experimental bands who have different stylistic nuances but share the same existential pain and entrancement. Borrowing from disparate atmospherics like Horror films and spiritual ritual, these artists will plunge you into a deeply meditative and powerful experience that may captivate and also terrify.
This is their work:
Sunn O))) Black One 2005
Earth Earth 2 1993
Final 3 2006.
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