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Self-released ambient CD-Rs are usually quite hazardous to review and especially to appreciate, since seldom they´re interesting. This case brings to the fore the work of Fredrik Andersson, a Swedish guy making ambient music utilizing notes. That could sound too obvious but at the same time it´s kind of rewarding, since I´ve received recently some noisy promos based on tracks sounding like a distant thunder reverbing and repeated through sloppy loops. Notes, oh, the essence of music after all, isn´t it? Now, something completely different: the review itself. These are three tracks lasting for fifteen minutes and showing a very decent balance between the ambient stuff and the neo-classical style. Unlike many ambient albums, monotony has been avoided and the music flows in a rather dynamic way. Sometimes the songs show a Mortiis-esque tendency in the use of only one or two layers of synths and the classic deep, solemn voice, although fortunately this is far more interesting and rich than the albums of the only troll keen on electronica, being not the similarities remarkable at all. The synths impersonate orchestral strings, chimes, percussives and organs and the mentioned voice appears in the first and third songs, reciting some words. The melodies are cold and tragic, but not quite complex nor original. Some steps further in the making should have been welcome as well: more layers, more accurate breaks. The tempo changes are rough; the flowing of the different sonic sequences lacks smoother arrangements. When the most inspired moments are rising, with those dramatic note phrases, all of a sudden they stop to let the background fuzz resound, and this way the rhythm suffers severely and the whole thing doesn´t work properly. It´s as if in the middle of a take-off the plane goes down and flies lower than what one expects... Anyway, that´s a negative point easy to improve in next releases. Overall the sound is consistent, appealing and correct. I regard these tracks rather as ambient music than an incidental soundtrack, though this is not the issue here. The relevance of Shadowlights depicts “Pandemonium My Order” as a promising atmospherical release whose sequel is worth the wait.
| Tracklist |
| 1. Dark Silverrusted Clouds In Souls |
| 2. Absinthe And Rain Water; Dreams And Further |
| 3. Phantoms Of Flesh |
: 15.04
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