Erdig - Habakuk
Yup... The cassette is ALREADY sold out! (ltd to 16 units). It was released the fourth of February 2018, sorry!. Yup, the second cassette release from Mr. Redig´s highly strange, ritualistic, religious, mysterious, and esoteric dungeon-synth inspired project. A weird and interesting being made out of pure moody sounds and slow melodies, authentic escapism into isolated aural aesthetics.
It´s something unique and entirely new, it is also something of a time-machine (for me). With Erdig, we are still getting these weird and eerie melodies... which take one back to early RPG soundtracks on vintage computers. I am talking about the AD&D and Bards tales games on the C64, or Eye of the Beholder on the Amiga500 (remember). Or maybe even the moody soundtracks for early Lucasfilm adventure point-and-click games on the PC, Secret on Monkey Island (that kind of stuff). The thing is with Erdig, is that other weird influences are being mixed/injected into this. Folksy and almost .. Jazzy elements are there! I wonder if he is into the Swedish folk and jazz musician Johan Johansson?. And then, of course, it still maintains the religious and spiritual esoteric feel. Hidden-and-secret-dungeon-under-the-free-masons-building kind of feel (if you please). Everything is marvelous on this album, from the start to the end. No bullshit! If you want to get further into the religious and esoteric mysteries of Habakuk, I suggest you read the info on the Bandcamp site.
Three tracks, 30 minutes of pure esoteric pleasure! And talk about the cover artwork for the tape, each one being a unique thing for itself. For all you unlucky few who didn´t get the cassette, the music is still available through Bandcamp.
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