| Deep, dark (and possibly malevolent) environments fill
26.5-minute Stjernevandring with the morose beauty of low tones and ocean waves, abraded by by rumbly textures (and eventually higher, spooky chimes). A pleasantly somber place to dwell. From the lingering silence,
Månedans (30:58) emerges... just as immersive, though not so gloomy, as its predecessor; gently wafting tones seem to hover across open plains, with faintly churning accents beneath. After 13 minutes, spacey electronic ripples radiate from the sky, progressively growing into a whipping wind which wails through the otherwise serene backdrop. The airstreams calm again for the closing moments of the first disc.
Spacious vistas of otherworldly horizons are evoked by the scant rising/falling vapors of
Rännak Tähtede Vahel. Muted didge-like entities may be heard calling from deep within. Amongst sonorous tonality, Tähevalgus' mechanistic atmospheres set up a muffled rhythm. A (Norwegian?) female radio voice softly speaks of unknown subjects.
The "shortest" of these gems, Punane Kuu (9:48) finds chasmic drones pockmarked with the restrained beating of tribal drums. A stewing miasma of sheening tones is peppered with subued percussion (and sometimes faraway half-vocalizations) as hypnotic
Vennad Valgusis concludes these explorations in a trance-inducing motif.
Group member Cicilie Risåsen's painted semi-abstractions perfectly accompany the pleasantly bizarre soundworlds inside. Eesti Lilled Silmad Süda was originally mastered by Helge Sten, a.k.a. Deathprod in 1996.
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