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HUMAN GREED - Black Hill: Midnight at the Blighted Star

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Lumberton Trading Company LUMB011 Release Year: 2008 Note: third album from this project from Edinburgh, feat. guest appearances by JULIA KENT, CLODAGH SIMMONS (FOVEA HEX), DAVID TIBET, FABRIZIO MODONESE PALUMBO (LARSEN) Price (incl. 19% VAT): €14.50 More Info Drittes Album dieser Band aus Edingburgh, die sehr melancholische instrumentelle Sounds (z.B. von Cello, Piano) mit ambienten synth- drones verbinden... für "Black Hill" konnten sie zudem namhafte Leute (u.a. DAVID TIBET und CLODAGH SIMONDS) zu Gastauftritten bewegen, aber auch so wäre dies ein äussert lohnenswertes Album für Freunde der ruhig-atmosphärischen, fast schon cinematischen Musik. Ein mitunter wunderschönes, mitunter verstörendes Werk, wie ein Eintritt in einen seltsamen fremden Traum.. "Maybe a release with the help of David Tibet, Clodagh Simonds, Fabrizio Palumbo and Julia Kent might not be the sort of thing I would want to sort out, but I only found that out after I heard Human Greed's third album 'Black Hill: Midnight At The Blighted Star'. Human Greed is a duo of Michael Begg and Deryk Thomas, and instruments are not given for them. The guests however contribute cello, voice, treatments and piano. I assume both Begg and Thomas are responsible for the electronics part of this project. The voices used are merely pushed to the background and seem to be reciting a small text every now and then. The piano and cello form nice counterparts in the ambient mass of sound, and warm interludes. This music, despite the occasional use of voices, is mainly instrumental music. Lots of sound effects, lots of atmospherics are captured here and as such resemble everything from Brian Eno to any and none in particular movement in the world of ambient music. Sometimes too forceful to be truly spacious, and sometimes with a sudden stop or change, but that adds, I think, to the quality of the album. Though not entirely new in approach, it takes the best from various directions in ambient music and makes a very nice hybrid form of it. " [FdW / Vital Weekly] "The third album by Edinburgh's finest exponents of often haunting, yet always touching, ebb and flow. Includes very special guest appearances by Julia Kent (Antony & the Johnsons, Blind Cave Salamander), Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo (Blind Cave Salamander, Larsen), David Tibet (Current 93) and Clodagh Simonds (Fovea Hex). Gathering together material quite possibly amounting to their most accomplished yet, 'Black Hill...' is akin to being caught in the trail of a shooting star heading to the very place where dreams, fears, hopes and an overwhelming sense of helpless abandonment teeter over the periphery of yet another rather enticing void. At once beautiful, melancholic, slightly bruised and foreboding, the music here never fails to captivate. Also features fantastic exclusive artwork from Deryk Thomas and Alan McGowan. Released November 2008." [label info] www.lumbertontrading.com