Deaf Center
Pale Ravine

Take a glass and fill it with your favorite wine. Now grab a cigarette and a lighter and begin the slow inhaling action that will damage your lungs. Put on "Pale Ravine" by Deaf Center and settle in well because it will be a short but very, very intense journey.

Erik Skodvin and Otto Totland.

Two names that might mean little to you. Relatively unknown figures. The important thing is to let the "music" speak for itself, although I find it challenging to define the content of Pale Ravine as "music." Indeed, when speaking of ambient and even more so when faced with expressions so intimate and rarefied, calling it music seems a bit off to me.

The Norwegian duo immerses itself with serene calm into an infinite sea of barely hinted sound cues and gloomy whispers worthy of a soundtrack for hell. Twelve tracks shrouded in an impenetrable black veil, a very heavy shroud from which it becomes difficult to extricate oneself without being captivated by sounds that describe the features of a world in the throes of suffering. The darkness of "Lobby", the romantic streaks of "White Lake", the horrific whispers of "The Clearing" will be enough to make you fall in love with this twilight world of Pale Ravine.

The wine glass is now empty, the cigarette finished. Just restart everything from the beginning and embark again on this journey through sinister places, mists, and unknown corners.

1. "Lobby" (3:01)
2. "Thread" (3:39)
3. "White Lake" (6:35)
4. "Path To Lucy" (4:54)
5. "Stone Beacon" (3:28)
6. "Weir" (6:34)
7. "Loft" (4:15)
8. "Thunder Night" (4:28)
9. "Lamp Mien" (3:58)
10. "The Clearing" (4:13)
11. "Fog Animal" (4:24)
12. "Eloy" (2:15)