Lyke Wake - Under The Mother´s Hands, With The Pain At My Side / Symphonic Noise
The constant creative force of Lyke Wake, delivering us another new part of the Symphonic Noise concept... this one is number 4. Called Under The Mother´s Hands, With The Pain At My Side. Released as a CD on Lyke Wake´s own label, Aseptic Noise. A 6-track album, a bit over an hour of pure and moody progressive ambient.
First track/part 1 is called Here Is The Pain (00:00 to 11:53), starts with the epic and symphonic synth-driven sound that has become the iconic sound of Lyke Wake, slightly religious, slightly biblical esthetic, and slightly angelic with that touch of Italian horror movies from the 70s (Dario Argento, etc.). You do get the sense that there is a bit of repetitiveness of sound in the symphonic noise releases, but it´s not in a bad way in the sense that the releases stick together as one long story.
Second track/part 2, And Pain Walks Beside Me (11:54 to 20:46). Sound of analog cold winds on a synth, and those mysterious... screaming short-wave radio kind of sounds. Beautiful played melancholic synth here, gets mixed up with psychedelic and flanged noise. Noise that sounds a bit like fireworks. At the end, it kind of lands on gentle, melodic ambient territory.
Third track/part 3: She Dies (20:47-40:43), the synth gets more into a church-organ sort of sound (the Funeral?). Epic layered psychedelic ambient, shimmering drones, reversed church bells, and whispering alien voices. Very cosmic, very eldritch at this point. Psychopomps delivering the dead to the afterlife, maybe? A very long track, working (almost) as an album in itself.
Fourth track/part 4: Leave The Dominion And The Memory To Pain (40:44-50:16), delivers a slowly built funeral-ambient-mood to the heavens...and beyond. Cristiano Bocci adds a melancholic bassline, and Jean Claude Oberto adds spoken words. Somehow a bit in the style of A Black Tape For a Blue Girl.
Fifth track/part 5: Tears Will Never Be Enough (50:16-57:45), and the sixth track gets into an atmospheric, cosmic, almost proto dungeon-synth vibe/tune. Lovely shimmering ambient-soundtrack track here. Love how Lyke Wake creates a unique storytelling mood, just by using synths and sounds.
The latest with Lyke Wake is a good album. And it helps with adding bass and vocals to the sound aswell. Lots of the sounds and synths are kind of reused from previous albums, but I think it´s ok since that Lyke Wale´s progressive-ambient sound is a genre by itself. And Lyke Wake, as far as I know the only act doing this style. Far away from the industrial/noise roots of the act.
