Avec Laudenum

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Total Tracks: 5   Total Length: 42:07

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BEFORE AND AFTER ENO

sajevangelo

large heavenly drones which can transport one to places suggested by the the brian some 2 decades ago. this is not music which seeks opinion. it is committed to a place and that place is space. this is not new-age music which purports to heal your spirit and yet it is deeply medicinal. it doesn't attempt to teach you to breathe and swallow and attract and be kind to yourself.....yet it'll that for you. i know very little about these guys but i always download a few more tracks each month and i continue to be intrigued, enriched, and satisfied.

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Immersive

Muse8

A completely immersive and atmospheric world of sound. Like staring at a night sky of stars with no other light source to distract.

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Avec Laudenum moves at a glacier’s pace and, slowly yet surely, calls to mind the glazed eye, vacant trance, and pure (temporary) euphoria of the heavy laudanum user. “The Atomium,” a three-part work, takes all of 16 minutes to gradually build from a series of softened drones into the exquisite ambience of an orchestra lulling heaven itself to sleep, only to halt the reverie by (just as gradually) introducing ominous backmasked guitars. Of the other two pieces, “Dust Breeding” has much the same effect and feeling of transcendence, while “I Will Surround You” has slightly more of a Technicolor feel. Reportedly recorded by mail between SotL members Adam Wiltzie and Brian McBride, Avec Laudenum is a magnificent piece of minimalist ambience. [Originally released in 1999 by the Belgian Sub Rosa label, the album was reissued in America by Kranky in late 2002.] – John Bush

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