evergone

Machine Tribe Recordings and The Sound-O-Mat are proud to present evergone, a trans-American collaboration effort between Abstract Audio Systems of New York City and ambient composers Austere from Portland, Oregon.

The raw sound materials for this six track CD were provided by Austere and subsequently manipulated and sequenced by AAS. The result is an ambient work inspired by the ideas of space and distance, the latter of which is only coincidentally the name of a previous Austere collaboration with In The Now called distance.

These cold reaches can be heard in "exo-bio", while "blu" and "atul" speak of the ocean's depths and the wildness of the unexplored. Tracks "blackfilm" and "unquiet" are much more claustrophobic, each mapping some secret, inner space that we ourselves are sometimes afraid to explore. The title track returns us to the light and reminds us of the comfortable spaces we build around ourselves.

Samples & Reviews can be found here.

You can order a copy through Hypnos Online Store and also through CD Baby while supplies last.

Reviews:

"This collaboration with Abstract Audio Sytems is a bit glitchy and disjointed but not distressingly so. ''unquiet'' is downright scary, but ''evergone'' is a nice closing track (nothing like Martin Luther King to send you off.) I'd love to have some of the drugs you guys were on when you made this CD."

— Gordon Danis, Esq.

"This has an alien / robotic thing going on. I like the bleeps and blips; not IDM-y, more like strange voices. ''unquiet'' sounds like huge spaceship engines warming up, 1000 decks below. ''atul'' is like a dense alien jungle, full of twittering insects and birds. ''evergone'' is a nice ending, sounds like an alien radio transmission. Cool stuff! There is almost a sense of 'language' to the sounds, like they're trying to tell me something...."

— Forrest (SunDummy)

"Powerful music, eerie but extremely beautiful. I can almost feel the weird vastness of the ocean when listening to this. One of the best albums I've heard this year, and not quite like anything else, even Austere's other releases. I can't recommend this enough!"

— Marcus (from CD Baby)

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