THING

With this eigth edition, attenuation circuit continues its series of four-way split albums called THING. The aim is to provide a medium for exchange and presentation of a great variety of artists. As each artist spreads the copies to their network, listeners also get to know the other artists featured on the same disc. The title references the fact that the CDs are physical objects – things! – but also refers to the 'thing' or 'ding' in old Norse and other Germanic languages, which designates the place of a popular assembly or the assembly itself and thus alludes to the 'meeting-place' character of the albums on (or around) which the four artists and their audiences meet, if only virtually.

This album is a Reflection of Darkness & Grey Lights behind the earlids, like a sound-colour out of space that makes the retina resonate with its Ghost Drone. The Thing on the doorstep of audibility oscillates and trembles within a subsonic maelstrom of Kosmische horror. Occasional flashes of high sounds offer glimpses through a Window whose wrong geometry opens onto an actual heart made of darkness. Its unholy pulse is the tell-tale sign of the machinations of great old evil demiurges, to whom the mythic giants of Jötunn are nothing but their menacing pets. In sum, this is a fine dark ambient compilation whose content would grace every self-respecting supernatural horror film soundtrack, but also works perfectly well on its own, conjuring the horrors through the auditive cortex.

File under: dark ambient