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VIDNA OBMANA / ALIO DIE - Echo Passage

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Musica Maxima Magnetica eee41 Release Year: 2000 Note: "music for overcoming the time" - last copies back in stock of this unique collaboration by ALIO DIE with DIRK SERRIES aka VIDNA OBMANA (later FEAR FALLS BURNING) - a completely suspended 68 min. one-tracker, with 4 page booklet Price (incl. 19% VAT): €15.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info "Die beiden Ambient-Master aus Belgien und Italien in lang angekündigter Zusammenarbeit.. ECHO PASSAGE enthält ein 68 minütiges, soft dahinschwebendes Stück.. music for overcoming the time.. " [old Drone Rec. info] www.musicamaximamagnetica.com "While running as a single 68.5-minute piece, Echo Passage is divided into three sections, Echoes of Light, A slip of darkness and The Passage; but there are no signposts to clearly delineate the pathways through these fantastic territories.Vidna Obmana and Alio Die have explored this realm and we're hereby invited to share its sonic bounty though each listener will have to discover their own aural trail. Flutey bursts, whispy shimmers, and the organic glistenings of trickling sands mark the entryway. It doesn't take long amongst these unusual textures to realize the previous world is now gone, and who needed it anyway...it's much more lovely here. A long, long stretch of rich multi-layered drones with no interruptions or percussive effects is eventually visited upon by sparse instances of faraway birdlike hoots and chatter as the sound waves become more subdued and darker. More organics emerge as a fizzy/bubbly current flows through these parts, and a powerful surging entity begins to periodically pulse in long,low tones. Everything returns to an airier, calmer state... for the time being at least. At the halfway point, those sonic molecules begin to shadow and thicken, becoming more ominous, like a mechanical wind, though still suffused with choir like threads of unearthly beauty. The turbulence grows; faint,unidentifiable ripples are heard through the chasmic howl. Cyclonic murk surrounds with distant vocal mutations and thin chimes occasionally lighting the way, leading into a realm of almost-silence. A thin drone blows in to be joined by mutedly brassy blares. Sporadic bird chirps add an Earthly touch to the otherwise unnatural atmospheres. A radiant haze begins to coalesce, swirling with gossamer strands, delicate yet powerful, gaining accompaniment from a two-tone counterpoint which temporarily fades away. Magical swells convolve around each other in strangely symphonic patterns, dancing like celestial auroras, wondrous to behold. All dissipates in the end, vanishing like the enchanting dreamworld it was... Echo Passage contains all the audio awe-inspiration you would expect from a musical meeting between Vidna Obmana and Alio Die. The extended length and expertly rendered atmospheres are perfectly suited for long, deep immersions into abstract time and place. Go there!" [from the Alio Die website]