Artist : Sana Obruent
Album : August
Year : 2017
Genre : Ambient
Quality : 244kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo
Source : CDR
Playtime : 0h 54m
Size : 100.1mb
Label : Blackjack Illuminist Records
Catalognr : BIR036
Tracklist:
01. I 10:07
02. II 10:58
03. III 9:12
04. IV 5:00
05. V 11:02
06. VI 8:05
Releasenotes:
Everybody who shat their pants listening to Sana Obruent's incredibly dark and
terrifying predecessor album "Dyatlov" must feel like being taken back to life
from the dead listening to the opening track of the new album "August", simply
entitled "I". It sounds like being pushed into an overwhelming stream of energy.
A strong, wild river full of what life might have in store for you, full of all
possibilities, all emotions at once, strangely positive on the surface, yet
intimidating with its rumbling deep drones underneath.
It is a heavy album that Paul Lopez who is the sole member of Sana Obruent
created. As if he wanted to imitate the sound of icebergs floating by or massive
mountain ranges scraping the earth, it is intense Drone, bulldozer-like, heavy
Drone that shakes the listener's living room walls. This can best be felt in
"II" which sounds like the field recording of a giant spaceship which is passing
through an alien portal heading for planet earth with dubious intentions on
their minds. (Are those noises of aliens dragging human bodies over the ground
in the second part of the track?)
Paul Lopez creates all these soundscapes with his guitar only. Besides these
moments of full-scale Drone you also find room for subtle melodies and
occasional ghost choir-like elements ("III") which carefully hints in the
direction of
Shoegaze - the black hole kind. What is left from the pitch black horror of
"Dyatlov"? Not too much, the feelings of being frozen ("IV) or being trapped in
an icy mirror world ("V") are unsettling but far from terrifying. "August"
mostly focuses on the more vivid side of the Drone/Ambient genre which is
perfectly executed in the closing "VI" when you feel like watching yourself
swimming, then submerging, surfacing again, trying to locate the source of a
strange sound which, in the end, is just everywhere.
With this new album Sana Obruent's Drone is cracking up the sky and drowning you
in an inescapable flood of liquid walls. And it sounds like witnessing the
thoughts of many lives at the same time. Organic and overwhelming.
Sana Obruent is Paul Lopez
Recorded and mixed at TSC studios somewhere in California, April - July 2017
For PML -
August 31, 1970 - August 23, 1983