Clavius - After Dark
Clavius is an obscure dark-ambient and drone act that has had its second album-release on Spanish Marbre Negre. This one is called After Dark, being a two-tracker being 60 minutes in total. The physical release being a pro-CD-R encased in a slim-lined DVD-case and being limited to 22 copies.
The first (and long) 47 minutes track called 3001, Seven Minutes Later is an epic long journey into a weightless sound-territory. It could be placed in LOTS of places, it could be in the eon-old city which the elder things built... in Lovecraft´s terrific story Mountains of Madness! Or it could be in deep space on a spaceship owned by CHOAM, searching for that spice-melange (To control the universe!). Or are we talking about a parallel universe? Similar to others... but not quite!. Either way, the sound is rich and multilayered and offers a wide range of deep atmospheric sounds and moods. Keywords would be Weightless, cold, deep, epic, and cosmic.
For ritualistic means, meditation, reading, background-stuff for roleplaying games... and all-around (and almost overwhelming) ritualistic dark-ambient offering from another universe.
The Zodiacal Light is the second and shortest track on the album (only)...20 minutes long. This track offers more of the same ambient and drone-based moods, just with added slowed-down samples/recordings from Tchaikovsky Swan Lake, which is a melody that you also have heard as being the classic theme from some of the older Dracula flicks. A lovely metallic engine-room sort-of track with extra layers of cosmic spaceness.
It´s an album that slows down time, de-stresses your day (if you like!). Not an everyday chill-out thing, but definitely a late-out chill in the really late hours of the night. Fans of Controlled Bleeding (ambient albums), Nocturnal Emissions, and Maeror Tri.
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