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Their fourth album, “How to Bottle a Star”, sees the duo Brent Zius and Karl Learmont take the next step in what they pinpoint as a retro‑futuristic, dark‑ambient voyage built around luminous melodies and vast, galactic chord progressions. Furthermore, Karl elaborates that he was inspired by holy music – particularly Arabic and Sufi music traditions. Their drones, spiralling melodies, sense of grandeur and wonder transfixed him for as long as he can remember. As such, this release imagines what the sacred music of higher-dimensional beings would sound. “Above all, this album is an act of reverence to the supreme beauty at the heart of an exploded star”. Well, the 78-minute outcome, crafted with a mix of modern and vintage synthesizers and custom-built musical instruments, is unusual and quite hard to get into, with a lot of experimental bits and pieces flying around in a strange, stark aural landscape. The overall sound design is most peculiar and highly psychedelic. That’s why I imagine it is certainly not for the faint of heart among us. The download edition of the album contains the 12-minute bonus piece “Black Holes Birth Galaxies”. |
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