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6:16: Sundown on HumanityĪrmed Cloud: Master Device & Slave Machinesįor information regarding where to send CD promos and advertising, please see our FAQ page. Ioh-Maera, with its creepy vocals and gongs and whatnot, is more likely to stay on the shelf until Halloween rolls back around.† = Staff Roundtable Review / ‡ = Reader CommentsĪrkanum: ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ (Soundtrack To Wintry Death Of The Worlds)Īrktau Eos: Ioh-Maera (CD only) and Unworeldes (Vinyl only)Īrmageddon Rev. Unworeldes is more likely to earn repeat plays, as it appeals to the same part of me that loves early ’70s Klaus Schulze. And taken on those terms, both these records are excellent. As someone utterly lacking in spiritual belief, I can listen to this purely as music. But I guess that’s their problem, not mine. Art that arrives unexplained is ripe for misinterpretation. So it’s up to the listener to make these records mean something-a risky proposition. They are soundtracking the ceremonies of a liturgy they have not shared. It’s obviously intended to be more than just beautiful (though it is that, quite often) the masks and the symbology of the album art indicate grave seriousness of intent. Instead, it is sound that exists purely to provoke…meditation? Introspection? It’s hard to say what the men of Arktau Eos hope to inspire in those who encounter their work. Unworeldes is a much more minimalist effort than Ioh-Maera, resolutely refusing to communicate-or even suggest-anything to the listener. Only in the final third of “Geometry” does any kind of rhythm emerge, something that sounds like a gently struck hand drum. The last two pieces, “Black Leaf Gaze” and “Geometry of Emptiness,” follow similar patterns. The second piece, “Cove of the Seven-Winged,” builds on a sound reminiscent of a very closely miked, very slowly and forcefully bowed cello, with some bowed cymbals or gongs (not unlike the work of Thomas Köner) in the back. No percussion, no vocals, just throbbing and shimmering sound.
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Two keyboards create parallel layers of drone that weave in and out of each other, with a gentle hiss in the background like they’re in a house with the wind blowing, the rain falling all around, and the windows open just enough to feel the humidity on your skin. From the start of the first of its four tracks, “The Cypress Watcher,” it’s immediately a more primitive and stripped-down effort. It also definitely gives the impression of having been created for the purpose of accompanying some sort of ritual, albeit one which the group members have chosen to leave undefined.Īrktau Eos‘ other new release, Unworeldes, seems destined to reach even fewer people than Ioh-Maera, simply because it’s an LP-only release.
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The sound is extremely full at all times, with a lot of tape hiss but no real room ambience it doesn’t come across like a document of a performance, but rather something which has been layered with great precision attention to detail. The last track, “Otherstone Refraction,” is completely different from everything that’s come before-it sounds like field recordings made in a cave (lots of crackle and echo), with a single almost subsonically low synth drone persisting throughout. Vocals appear on the first track, “Unbinding Kaamos,” and on “Ioh-Maera” in the former case, they are high-pitched and shamanic, while in the latter case they’re guttural rumbles not unlike the Gyuto monks of Tibet. On “Noxfaros,” there’s a steady tribal drumming as guitar-feedback-esque drones surge and recede a gong or perhaps a clapperless bell rings repeatedly throughout the title track. It’s primarily built around drones which could be played on anything from a vintage analog synth to a laptop. Ioh-Maera is a CD-only release, offering five tracks in just over 45 minutes. Arktau Eos would stand out on any label’s roster, but their association with Svart is more surprising than were they to have hooked up with, say, Southern Lord or Crucial Blast. These two releases are their first for Svart Records, a small Finnish label that’s been licensing a lot of stuff for limited-edition vinyl, as well as signing some bands, mostly in the retro psychedelic hard rock vein. Until now, they’ve been putting out material on their own Aural Hypnox label. The Finnish trio Arktau Eos have been making what they describe as “ritual ambient and archaic elemental music” since 2005 in keeping with their general occult-ness (and I mean occult in the sense of “secret,” not necessarily in the sense of having to do with black magic or Satan or what have you), their faces are never revealed and they go by mysterious names-the two main dudes, Antti Haapapuro and Antti Litmanen, prefer to be known simply as AIH and AIL, and their longtime live percussionist, only recently inducted into the group as a full member, goes by Iwowi.