Cold Spring
'79ºS 83ºW', '72ºS 49ºE', '82ºS 62ºE', '86ºS 115ºW' & '80ºS 96ºE'.
Five coordinates pinpointing locations in the Antarctic and titles to the five tracks on the album 'Deep_Frieze' by Sleep Research Facility. Maybe I should finally install Google Earth and see where they lead to ...
The style of the album has been called "glacial dark ambient", a term which we've seen quite recently on the album of Project Artic on Nautilus as well as on two releases so far on the Glacial Movement Recordings label.
We can all relate to the mysteries surrounding the Antarctic. The massive ice, the silence, the harsh natural balance; the absence of a cultivated environment. A great inspirational subject for isolasionist music. And that is what Sleep Research Facility created.
Massive drones and ambient layers with just enough minimalistic changes in the soundspectrum to be intriguing for a routined listener to the genre as well as newbies. The first group (the routined listeners) might think the mix has a bit too much reverb which sort of drown the dynamics here and there, but the tiny changes and added sounds make up for that. This reverb will on the other hand open up a difficult recording for a larger audience, as it makes the whole album a lot easier to digest for new listeners to the genre.
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