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░█▒█ Artist ■ Ambience █▒█░
░ █▒█ Album ■ As Dez Esperas █▒█ ░
░█░█ Year ■ 2007 █░█░
█░█ Release Date ■ 2009-04-28 █░█
█░█ Genre ■ Darkwave █░█
█ █ Label ■ Nekrogoat Heresy Productions █ █
█░█ Source ■ CDR █░█
█ █ Type ■ Album █ █
█ █ Encoder ■ LAME v3.97 -V2 --vbr-new █ █
█░█ Quality ■ VBR, 44.1kHz, Joint Stereo █░█
█ █ █ █
█ █ █ █
█ █ Ambience, a musical project hard to define, but allways █ █
█ █ around the most darkest sounds of the ambiental movement. █ █
█ █ In the end of 2007, they gave us their fourth album. "As █ █
█ █ Dez Esperas", via Nekrogoat Heresy Productions. After █ █
█ █ listening to this excelent album, one of the bests of 2007 █ █
█ █ and, for me, the best Ambience album, I had to know more. █ █
█ █ So, wearing a journalist coat from Lusitanium, I went to █ █
█ █ the dungeons and made an interview to M., the guy behind █ █
█ █ this one-man-band. █ █
█ █ █ █
█ █ If you want to read the interview in Portuguese, go to █ █
█ █ http://smallr.net/entrevista-ambience. Here is a rough █ █
█ █ translation to English. Either way, you may want to read █ █
█ █ this while listening to the actual music. You can listen to █ █
█ █ the first track of this new album in the label's myspace at █ █
█ █ http://www.myspace.com/nekrogoatheresyproductions. If you █ █
█ █ want to listen more than that, you can download "Funeral", █ █
█ █ its third album, for free at █ █
█ █ http://www.archive.org/details/Ambience_Funeral. █ █
█ █ █ █
█ █ ----------------------------------------------- █ █
█ █ What's the motivation behind Ambience? █ █
█ █ █ █
█ █ The question is more complex than it seems. First, the █ █
█ █ intention was to make music that would be relaxing to █ █
█ █ myself. After that, it worked as a scapegoat from the whole █ █
█ █ metal projects I was involved in. Since this would only █ █
█ █ depend on myself, I could do something when I wanted or █ █
█ █ felt like, and that was much more enthusiastic. And █ █
█ █ productive too. Nowadays, this is my most important project █ █
█ █ because it works somewhat like an exorcism that I wasn't █ █
█ █ able to preview at first, that results like something █ █
█ █ terapeutic. What was made just to play around, ended up █ █
█ █ like a tool to exorcise what I have inside. █ █
█ █ █ █
█ █ Looking behind to the whole work of Ambience, there was an █ █
█ █ enhancement until "Funeral", the third Ambience album, that █ █
█ █ was released in a digital format only and with a Creative █ █
█ █ Commons license. What made you do the release like that? █ █
█ █ █ █
█ █ Well, I see "Funeral" as the second album, since the first █ █
█ █ release was a split with KULT, but thinking about it, I █ █
█ █ made it as if I was making an whole album, so I can accept █ █
█ █ who considers it as such. Regarding your question, █ █
█ █ "Funeral" was released that way just because I didn't felt █ █
█ █ like looking for a label, Void Rekordz had closed some time █ █
█ █ ago, and also because that work was used as the soundtrack █ █
█ █ for 5 texts I wrote on Deviant Art, that makes part of a █ █
█ █ story that I hope to release as a book. It was something I █ █
█ █ just decided in that moment and since the texts were and █ █
█ █ are freely available online, I thought it would make sense █ █
█ █ to release the soundtrack for them in the same way. █ █
█ █ █ █
█ █ 2007 brought us a new Ambience work, "As Dez Esperas". This █ █
█ █ work was again released in a CD-R format, this time from █ █
█ █ Nekrogoat Heresy Productions. How this oportunity appeared? █ █
█ █ █ █
█ █ I met Joao Pedro from Nekrogoat since we swapped some █ █
█ █ Dungeons Records material, an underground record label I'm █ █
█ █ slowly closing. From that, he started to have some interest █ █
█ █ in releasing some metal projects that I jad and we made █ █
█ █ some contacts with some musicians he knew, but, as before, █ █
█ █ it ended not working. In the meantime, I talked with him █ █
█ █ about Ambience, he listened to the new work and he was █ █
█ █ interesting in releasing it. For me it was awsome since I █ █
█ █ was thinking about releasing it in archive.org again or █ █
█ █ something simmilar. █ █
█ █ █ █
█ █ This album brings a new element to Ambience music, almost █ █
█ █ marking a new phase. Besides to cohese dark ambient that █ █
█ █ you made ourselves familiar with, it has now a really heavy █ █
█ █ drone, dark and slow. Do you consider this a new Ambience █ █
█ █ phase, or was it only a experience this way written? █ █
█ █ █ █
█ █ Nice question. Honestly, I have no clue. Conciously I would █ █
█ █ really like to reach that relaxing point, the inicial █ █
█ █ target. This last work is absolutely the oposite, in such a █ █
█ █ way that I can't stand to listen to it. I'm extremely proud █ █
█ █ of what I made, but I admit that it's not the music you'll █ █
█ █ be listening everytime, and that you need a certain mindset █ █
█ █ and body to enjoy it, trying not to be to pretencious. I █ █
█ █ already started working on a new Ambience track in the few █ █
█ █ free time I have and perheaps I'll go into a completely █ █
█ █ different new path, perheaps more tradicional in terms of █ █
█ █ the instruments to use, I don't know, it's something that █ █
█ █ is still open. It will be something instinctive and it █ █
█ █ might go in the same veign, or be something completely █ █
█ █ different. Only waiting to see. █ █
█ █ █ █
█ █ This album music comes with a strong aesthetics, in both a █ █
█ █ visual an lyrical level. It was a developing concept, or █ █
█ █ one of the parts precedes the other? █ █
█ █ █ █
█ █ Once again, it just came this way. I had a defined concept █ █
█ █ and also some ideas for the artwork. I asked some help to █ █
█ █ two people to do something related to the ideas I had for █ █
█ █ the texts and images, but both took way too long so I ended █ █
█ █ asking two other persons in a more free way. I gave the █ █
█ █ music to Sergio (http://punhal.deviantart.com), that is an █ █
█ █ excelent poet, simply genious. I gave him the music and █ █
█ █ only told him "listen and write". And he did it, and in a █ █
█ █ really small timeframe. After that I have Andre those texts █ █
█ █ and the artwork elements and he made the paintings you can █ █
█ █ see in the artwork. I could never predict something like █ █
█ █ this, both parts were way too spontaneous, thanks to the █ █
█ █ huge creativity of both. █ █
█ █ █ █
█ █ After a Split with Kult, this time the album "As Dez █ █
█ █ Esperas" has one remix from that musical project. How did █ █
█ █ this happen? █ █
█ █ █ █
█ █ I had already told him I wanted him to work with something █ █
█ █ I did, and this also ended happening spontaneously. I made █ █
█ █ him listen the track, he asked me a copy, remixed it and it █ █
█ █ ended substantiantly different. It was that difference that █ █
█ █ made me want that track in the album, it works like a bonus █ █
█ █ track that complements the album and that makes all the █ █
█ █ sense there, like "Dez Esperas" part 2 ("Dez Esperas" █ █
█ █ translates to Ten Waitings). █ █
█ █ █ █
█ █ █ █
█ █ What are the influences to Ambience? █ █
█ █ █ █
█ █ In the beggining a huge influence was Morcheeba, in the █ █
█ █ instrumental level, it's a kind of sound that makes me █ █
█ █ relax entirely. Chill out and some electronic music also, █ █
█ █ that those were influences that never jumped (I think) into █ █
█ █ the end result, because since the beggining this was more █ █
█ █ like something that came from inside me than something I █ █
█ █ wanted to do to make it sound like this or that. Everything █ █
█ █ I listen ends being an influence, specially my Metal side. █ █
█ █ I think that this is the work where you'll feel it more, █ █
█ █ mainly in the atmosphere that is thicker this time, almost █ █
█ █ extreme. █ █
█ █ █ █
█ █ The first Ambience works are already impossible to get... █ █
█ █ Are there plans to re-release that material? █ █
█ █ █ █
█ █ Not from myself. Only if someone's interested in re-release █ █
█ █ it or give it a new graphical look. But I have no plans for █ █
█ █ it. █ █
█ █ █ █
█ █ What will give us Ambience in the future? █ █
█ █ █ █
█ █ I have no idea. I hope to keep the release rythm of one █ █
█ █ release per year, but lately my personal life and work █ █
█ █ aren't letting me to dedicate what I should to the project. █ █
█ █ First well see a new release in 2008, but I still have no █ █
█ █ idea of how will it be, but the target is to give something █ █
█ █ more of myself in a musical way. █ █
█ █ ----------------------------------------------- █ █
█ █ █ █
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█ █ 1. O Cutelo Final 3:20 █ █
█ █ 2. Dez Esperas 26:43 █ █
█ █ 3. Doze Badaladas 16:59 █ █
█ █ 4. Dez Esperas - Remix 25:19 █ █
█ █ 72:21 █ █
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