music for funerals
Theme music for your next nightmare, Monodia is
49 minutes of dark ambient music. The perfect
soundtrack for a stormy night.
Samples & Reviews can be found here.
Available exclusively through the
Hypnos Online Store.
Reviews:
"Monodia is terrific! This is classic dark ambience; black &
hollow sounding, very dramatic, kinda like if Oophoi went Goth. That second
track (Throe) in particular - I don't know how they got this effect, but it
has an incredible sense of infinite space, as though you were standing
before The Great Void. Awesome! This music is jammed full of cemetary
trees, frosty iron gates, abandoned cathedrals, and cold gray skys.
Anyone who appreciates Oophoi, Lustmord, Northaunt, Kammarheit, Svartsinn,
etc. is gonna love this stuff! (Actually it's better than most of the stuff
I mentioned.) Wait til the kids are in bed, light the candles, put on the
headphones, and hold on.
"... quite a bit different than
Convergence... it's more of
an active listening experience; there are shifts in texture and movements,
waves of sound, as opposed to a more static drone... The drones are almost
gothic in tone, with textures that change as the disc moves from one
movement to the next... Depending on the volume at which it is played and
your capacity for concentration (or fondness for drone), this disc could
work equally well as background or foreground music."
"... takes its cues from the dark ambient works of
artists like Lustmord and Lull, with a thick, bass-heavy sound, plenty of
metallic rumblings and slowly shifting, mystery-invoking
pseudo-melodies."
—
Eric Prindle formerly of Ujamaa's Ambient Experience
"''Music for Funerals'' is an apt description of austere's offerings.
Deep rumblings turn to light sweeps which phase in and out to create a
visual picture of deep space..."
"VERY Lustmord."
"Dark, distressing, consistently dark and bereft of melody but
sometimes just what I need to hear. Not TOO often, though."
— Gordon Danis, Esq.
"While
Monodia gets a lot of comparisons by listeners and reviewers to
Robert Rich/Lustmord's ''Stalker'', this is by far a much darker ambient
album. Subtitled ''Music for Funerals'', it is bereft of even the
slightest hint of lightness and is relentlessly black and even at times
oppressive. One of the best ''dark ambient'' CDs I've heard, in fact
given the theme of the CD based on the titles, I'd go so far as to say
it deserves its own genre: ''death ambient''."
— Wayne Dolman (Scintillating Spelling Bee)
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