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█ ARTIST: Strom Noir █
█ TITLE: Standing Out Against the Sea █
█ LABEL: Data Obscura █
█ GENRE: Ambient █
█ BITRATE: 224kbps avg █
█ PLAYTIME: 0h 55min total █
█ RELEASE DATE: 2012-00-00 █
█ RIP DATE: 2012-04-14 █
█ URL: █
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█ 01. Poppy Seeds 6:47 █
█ 02. Standing Out Against The Sea 8:16 █
█ 03. In All The Wrong Places 6:47 █
█ 04. The Passage Of Truth 7:34 █
█ 05. Rearview Mirror 5:58 █
█ 06. Digital Saturn 6:41 █
█ 07. Haanah 9:59 █
█ 08. Kalimagdora 3:26 █
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█ The album unfolds with motionlessly flowing looped drones on "Poppy █
█ Seeds", presenting Strom Noir at its most serene!!! The title █
█ composition "Standing Out Against The Sea" moves towards more typical █
█ guitar-based soundscaping, with a stronger acoustic feel and a █
█ repetitive, slightly more melodic structure enriched later by harsher █
█ hissed soundwalls and natural sounds, but always keeping within the █
█ signature of Strom Noir. This composition showcases a precise synergy █
█ and balance between fragile, melancholic warmness and louder, more █
█ massive passages. "In All The Wrong Places" begins with deeper, █
█ slow-motion drones, which fleetly shift into gradually progressing, █
█ intense and interplaying cascades covered by misty hiss. This richly █
█ sculpted and deeply evocative masterpiece holds all the finest "Made by █
█ Strom Noir" essences!!! The monotonously spiraling, but shimmeringly █
█ exquisite drones of "The Passage Of Truth" move again through █
█ multi-dimensional passages, backed by catchy voice-like sounds. The next █
█ composition, "Rearviewmirror", slips into a rather rawer, exotically █
█ sounding adventure, with distinctive sounds and intense, expressive █
█ strings. An all-inclusive piece with a deeply stirring and mesmerizing █
█ effect. Certainly another highlight on this highly challenging ride!!! █
█ "Digital Saturn" glides through more aerial, tranquilly soothing spaces █
█ with a slowly expanding structure, becoming more massive and profound, █
█ and always strongly imaginative. "Haanah" is dominated by heavier, █
█ repetitive drone, and colored by some distant rumblings at the back. The █
█ overall feel of this track is quite monumental, nearly mind-bending. By █
█ the way, "Haanah" also features the Fujara, a traditional folk flute of █
█ Slovak shepherds, but it's hardly recognizable throughout the piece. █
█ "Kalimagdora" quickly brings the album back into a warmly inviting blend █
█ of tender acoustics and cheerful organics crossed with nostalgic █
█ glitches, and allows the listener to float smoothly in a state of being █
█ deeply relaxed. Beautifully captivating closer!!! "Standing Out Against █
█ The Sea" is filled with sensitivity, richness and poignancy, it must be █
█ experienced to be appreciated!!! I am so proud to know this wonderful █
█ and talented artist!!! █
█ Richard Gⁿrtler (April 2012, Bratislava, Slovakia) █
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