Shadow Echo Canyon - A Daymare Reality
Let us get back to Inner Demon Records for another review. This time, we have an act called Shadow Echo Canyon with an album called A Daymare Reality. This act has existed since 2020, with several self-released digital albums on Bandcamp. The guy behind it is named Luca Tommasini, who is also responsible for projects like A Distant Shore and Asylum Connection. Mainly dealing with meditative ambient-drones and spacy minimalism.
This album is the latest by this act, which was released in September 2024. Limited to 42 copies, on handstamped 3" CD-Rs with a heavy cardstock inside a plastic pouch. The exquisite and iconic Inner Demon Records design. The album contains 3 tracks on 2 CD-Rs, about 36 minutes in total.
The first track is called All This Darkness Rest In Me. A sense of ominous high heights, a sensible and thundering spacy-drone, echoed minimalistic noise and whispering spoken words. There is also a strange string sound in there aswell. Not dark ambient or classic ambient stuff. Frozen in time stuff, very microscopic and epic without the drama. Incredibly intriguing, relaxing, and intense in an otherworldly way.
The second track, Only Disgusting Feelings. Icy crystalline ambient synth, sound of ghosts taking their empty breaths, intimate spoken words, and the sound of... secret things going on in some cavernous cellar of some kind. Still carrying the sound aesthetic started by the first track. A certain sound of that synth takes me back to John Carpenter´s The Thing.
We continue on disc 2 with the third and last (and longest) track, which is called Unquiet Night. Unsettling sound of electronic-hardwire and machinery hoovering above the listener, while the recorded sound of a contact-microphone is being tugged away in wool. An abysmal dark-ambient sound-texture is running in the background, almost with a kind of dungeon/winter-synth feel to it. Kind of, when snow is covering some sort of industrial location or factory grounds.
A Daymare Reality is uneasy-listening for ambient-lovers, filled with pure ear-candy. Intriguing field-recordings, hypnotic soundscapes, curious spoken-words, bottomless/levitating moods with a playful experimental approach/ideas. It´s an album that I (and hopefully u) will return to, just to give it another listen. Lots of ways of listening to it, and lots of ways to understand it aswell. Highly recommended!
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