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it could be the next ambient listening

great review, you are one of the best deb reviewers!

Great as usual, and I completely agree with you. This album, in my opinion, is on the same level as the previous one; I find both quite inconclusive and lacking in magnetism. I still need to listen to it properly to give it a definitive judgment, but as it seems to me so far, the only thing that saves this work is Tibet's vocal performance, truly admirable in some moments. I may be pessimistic, but I don’t believe that at this point Tibet will be able to awaken from this artistic stagnation; after more than twenty years of career, perhaps the time has come for him as well. If I were him, I would simply retire; he could end up like his colleague Douglas P., lost for years in his self-indulgent post-industrial apocalyptic troubles...

Anyway, if you’re interested in a nice album of experimental music, I recommend the latest by Aethenor, the album by Ascend, the first by Alva Noto and Sakamoto, and In D by Arandel. Nothing particularly innovative, in fact maybe stuff already played in the 90s, but nonetheless catalogable as works that are quite difficult to fit into a specific genre... Oh, you might also like Knoxville by Fennesz and some of his collaborators...

"One cannot know, given that there are hardly any more innovators in today’s music, and the few who exist manage to hit it big with their first and sometimes second album before getting lost in a creative void." This is true, but we must consider the fact that the world has changed completely, just as the way of making music has. Just look at the music scene of the 70s and 80s and compare it to that of the 90s and, especially, the 00s; it will become clear that they belong to two completely different worlds... Moreover, I will say that experimenting in the era of Eno was one thing, but doing so today, after more than thirty years of experimentation, is quite another. It’s logical that the drive has diminished... If we add to this the fact that truly innovative works generally take a back seat, I believe it will be necessary to revisit this topic in at least five years...

I would like to highlight a truly fantastic release from ECM: Purcor by Trygve Seim & Andreas Utnem, year 2010.

ECM is synonymous with quality. I will definitely hear this.

of Dimmu Borgir, Stormblast (and partly the first album). Anyway, I didn't quite understand the parallel, do they play black or death? From how you describe them, they seem similar to Dark Lunacy.

I go against the grain and I must say that I really appreciate the voice of Tibet, cacophonous but with a shocking level of emotion and expressiveness!!!