James Parrot - Drones From the Black Hole
Our favorite over-productive drone-junkie Mr. Parrot is at it again! This time he is gonna suck the listeners way-deeper into his otherworldly drone´ ish excentricity. It´s called Drones From the Black Hole, a free to download album containing five heavenly-evocative drone tracks (called 1,2,3,4,5...and 25 minutes in total).
The first track starts in the quiet drone-department and slowly (but surely) grows from every second. A humming sensation enters your body while an angelic and cosmic force of sound simply engulfs you. Try to imagine the sensation one might feel if they were to discover a black hole on some high-tech telescope. To see how a black-hole not only engulfs entire galaxies but sucks reality so hard... that anything that enters it looks like thin spaghetti. They were already talking about black holes in 1916, I could imagine Lovecraft reading an article (or two) about it. Terrifying to imagine a black hole, the sheers size being too huge for the human imagination! Track two continues in the same matter (and sound) as the first track, just with more force, volume (or pull)). Whatever is coming, there will be no escape!.
The third track offers the listener the sensation of being spaghettified into a black-hole, the monotony of the first two tracks slowly alters and changes the listeners listening-perception almost unconsciously. Something big is happening, and you would not even notice it. The fourth track feels as if... time itself slows down. There is also a falling sensation in the sound itself, falling into a kind of bottomless pit. The fifth and last track continues were the fourth track ended and slowly collides into something being an almost...skeletal version of the previous 4 tracks which you have heard. Which is a fantastic ending!
An experience, a kind of sound-medicine which enters and does its thing. And the good thing about it is that James Parrot has TONS of that medicine on his Bandcamp! (link below). There isn't that much diversity in those 3 albums which I have reviewed here on Kalteldur, but the works of Parrot are nonetheless solid, unique and almost personal. Hell, I could walk around in town saying... THAT almost sounded like a James Parrott album. Do give him a check-up!
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