True Colour Of Blood: Awakened. To Never Sleep Again True Colour Of Blood: Awakened. To Never Sleep Again (mp3.com - 2001) Obscure, unlit landscapes are Awakened. To Never Sleep Again by Eric Kesner's dark guitar experimentations. Operating as True Colour Of Blood, he unfurls hovering sheets of sound across long, flat horizons. The only short piece is the opener, Awakened. To Never Sleep Again (partI) (1:46); rough-though-soft patterns ring out like some ancient machinery. A similar ambiance thrums throughout Awakened. To Never Sleep Again (part II) (17:18), where mechanistic grayness churns, sometimes calling like a faraway train at midnight. Awakened. To Never Sleep Again (part III) drifts into higher registers, with floes of (sometimes awfully) dense choral-like streams wavering. The more spacious regions of Awakened. To Never Sleep Again (part IV) are minimally spaced with quietly billowing soundpuffs, scruffy accents and murky, rippling spoken words along its 15-minute duration. An aside: I found these tracks to be perfect accompaniment for viewing some of the abandoned places photographed by Shaun O'Boyle, specifically the scenes from "the Boatyard" series. Desolationism fans, check out his display of beautiful melancholia... Containing 50 minutes of spooky environments, Awakened. To Never Sleep Again doesn't need to go over-the-top with "scary" effects; True Colour Of Blood instead relies on subtler forms of darkness which tap into into a natural dread of the unknown, which flows from his dark/ambient/minimal guitar transmutations. 8.3 See: www.mp3.com/tcob for more. This review posted June 30, 2001 AmbiEntrance © 2001-1997 by David J Opdyke (except CD cover art, rights retained by original owners).