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Rating: Alio Die and Dirk Serries reunite 22 years after "Echo Passage" (Projekt 1999). This new work is titled The chapters of the eclipse. In the meantime, the moniker Vidna Obmana has been set aside by Dirk Serries, but this has not stopped the Belgian musician's musical activity, as the keenest listeners surely know. His music today sounds very minimal, and his exploration has continued with projects like Fear Falls Burning (closed in 2012) and Microphonics, as well as albums under his own name. Alio Die, on the other hand, seems constantly touched by the sacred fire of inspiration, and I must say that, in a sea that is often oversaturated like that of ambient music, his production remains a guarantee. In The chapters of the eclipse, almost like magic, we find the ethereal and subliminal atmospheres of the early Vidna Obmana, of epochal albums like Shadowing In Sorrow and Ending Mirage, which blend with Alio Die's typical soundscapes. The work is divided into 3 long compositions characterized by a calm, liquid sound of unreal beauty. The 24 minutes of the opening "Without the Light of the Sky, Time Is Lost" are meditative music that takes us traveling in the Cosmos, abandoning the space-time coordinates. "The Shadow Is Slow, the Hour Is Fleeting" shines with a magnetic aura while the concluding "The Sun from the Point of View of the Earth" leads us to wander through abstract and colorful landscapes. An album that should not be missing from the collection of ambient music followers. Available on Bandcamp: https://aliodie.bandcamp.com/album/the-chapters-of-the-eclipse.
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