In conclusion, Eremos is certainly a return to form from Arktau Eos- as it feels more focused, assured & detailed in it’s forging of great ritual tinged dark ambience. Inside we get brown text against a Manila backing, with a fold-out mini paper poster of what looks like a sketched mountain pass.
And Eremos it's just the same- the CD comes a foldout card sleeve- on it’s outside this features a blend of dark textured brown ink, and gold inked lettering & symbols. Or the final track "Eden"- with its focus of buzzing & droning pipe organ layers, slowly clashing percussion sweeps, and slowly fading feeling of dread filled uneasy & dark wonderment.Īs any fan of Arktau Eos and its connected label/collective Aural Hypnox know they always go the extra mile with the darkly arty packaging of their releases. Later on, we get slurred & forlorn marching synth meets dramatic ritual clanging and creepy crashing water field recordings of “Pacts Of Stone and The Sun”. Onto the epic & glorious creepy crypt like atmops of “He Who Drinks The Light From The Stars”- which starts with a blend slow & circling pipe organ melody, rushing wind field records, strangely muffled voices & bleak hit percussive tolls- in the second half this wonderful unsettling addition of wavering electro pitches are added along with more creepy flotsam & jetsam- all to create such a chilling atmosphere it almost induces a shudder & a quick look over the shoulder.
The album moves from the darkly lulling & eerier “Facing the Exarchs of Desolation”- which brings together slurred warbling synth harmonics, simmering & desolate drone drifts, and subtle tolling ritual tones. The nine-track album runs for spot on forty-eight minutes- with each of the tracks running between one & a half, and nearing nine minutes a piece. Last year saw the project releasing Catacomb Resonator, their first output in five years up to that point- the album featured a single slice of building-then-receding ritual ambience- it was just ok, but ultimately a bit of a letdown…so when I saw a new Arktau Eos album was appearing, I was both pleased & a little apprehensive. Since these initial releases, the project has put out four full-lengths, with each really pushing forward their darkly tinged & occultic ambient sound.
And Scorpion Milk- a single forty eight minute release, that saw the project at their most pared-back- bringing together sparse ritual ambience with moments of eerier reverb & dread filled silence.
The Arktau Eos project began in 2005- putting out their first two releases in 2006- Mirrorion- a classic & at times otherworldly 70-minute journey into pitch black ritual ambience.
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Here’s Eremos- a new full length nine track releases from dark ambient & occult music two piece Arktau Eos- it finds the mysterious Finish duo back on good form offering up a mostly consistent release that moves between & melds sinister retro electronic texturing, gloomy & dread filled ritual music, with brooding ceremonial organ simmers, and fleeting/ eerier field recordings. Review archive: # a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y zĪrktau Eos - Eremos Ī year after their last release the somewhat lacklustre Catacomb Resonator. Musique Machine / Multi-Genre Music Magazine
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