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Thomas Koener - Permafrost
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r i p p i n g n o t e s . . . . . . . ▀
date Dec-24-2002
style Ambient
label Mille Plateaux
cat.no. MP CD 35
source CDDA
type Album
quality 192kbps 44.1hz Joint-Stereo
size 106,2 MB
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r e l e a s e n o t e s . . . . . . . ▀
"Teimo/Permafrost collects two previously released K÷ner albums into
a single 2-CD set. Teimo was originally released on Barooni in 1991,
Permafrost came out on the same label in 1993. Now, in 1997 we get
them both together at a very reasonable price from Mille Plateaux.
As dark ambient musicians go, K÷ner is one of the best. The material
here represents that genre in its purest form, with no concessions to
such diluting influences as melody or rhythm. There's slowly drifting
layers of dark synths, deep bass drones, all the usual stuff by the
bucketload. Abyssal, sepulchral, subliminal, and so forth. Where
Lustmord's older stuff had a dark, slightly demonic edge to it that
suggested something nasty lurking just out of hearing, K÷ner's Teimo
is cold, bleak, lifeless and inhospitable. Note that those aren't
criticisms, that's just the way it sounds - Teimo calls up images of
barren wildernesses scoured clean of life by howling winds. Not even
lichen stands a chance in K÷ner's blasted wasteland. Well, almost -
one track ("Nieve Penitentes 2") is rather more suggestive of bombers
overhead than anything else.
Permafrost, by contrast, takes the listener on a journey below the
surface of this barren world. While it shares many of the same sonic
ingredients, it's got more of an edge to it, and is a little noisier.
We're not interested in lifeless wastelands and howling icy winds
here, now we're floating through kilometres deep permafrost (well, I
had to work the title in somehow), hearing the grinding of
continental plates, listening to granite, the only sounds those of
geology. Picture the lifeless landscape of Mars as seen by
Pathfinder. Now imagine the same landscape - on a Bank Holiday.
Sorry, I can't think of a particularly good US equivalent, since
nothing ever seems to close down completely over here. Think
of...umm, Nebraska, maybe? That's how utterly devoid of living
things, how inhospitable K÷ner's soundscapes seem.
All in all, good stuff, even if I can't adequately describe it. Fans
of Lustmord-style dark ambient will lap it up. There's no direct
comparisons to Lustmord's work - I can't say "this sounds a bit like
Heresy" or anything like that. The only Lustmord that takes this
bleak approach is The Place Where The Black Stars Hang, but there's
not really a comparison there, K÷ner's work suggest a different kind
of emptiness. It seems as good an introduction to dark ambient as any
- K÷ner is, after all, one of the major names in the genre, and these
two albums are almost definitively dark ambient."
-http://archive.awrc.com/k/teimo_permafrost.html
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p l a y l i s t . . . . . . . . . . . ▀
CD1
01 Ilira 03:52
02 Andenes 10:06
03 Teimo 05:14
04 Nieve Penitentes 1 03:04
05 Nieve Penitentes 2 04:44
06 Nieve Penitentes 3 04:27
07 Teimo.Schluss 04:22
08 Ruska 03:40
CD2
01 Nival 05:57
02 Serac 05:38
03 Firn 05:34
04 Permafrost 10:09
05 Meta Incognita 07:03
06 Untitled 03:25
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77:15 min
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t h e p u r p o s e o f i t a l l . . ▀
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