BOHREN & DER CLUB OF GORE — Black Earth (review)

BOHREN & DER CLUB OF GORE — Black Earth album cover Album · 2002 · Nu Jazz Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
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The sounds of this dark and ambient album make me think of a soundtrack for the very, very deep ocean where no light shines and if you happened to go there in one of those specialized submarines all you would see is extremely specialized creatures like humpback anglerfish, lantern sharks, giant tube worms, fangtooth fishes or deep sea squids which lurk around in the abyss and where the water pressure is so high our puny little human forms would be crushed.

This soundtrack contains strange, eerie and spooky minimalist ambience with saxophone solos that creep up out of the shadows to shed a little light on the darkened sonicscape. The spirits aren't restless but they are on vicodins and slowly ooze out of the ethers to take your mind to a new realm where everything is slowed down and marches on in a rythmic echoed path. Once you feel like you want to doze off choirs of haunting synths develop or a sax solo erupts from the nether world. If you're looking for something dynamic this is not the deep sea dive for you. This music is slow and pulsates like those glow-in-the-dark jellyfish that lurk in the darkness and sting you with their venomous sonic tentacles.
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