Final exams are over. School is out. It's time to enjoy some fun in the sun! Right? Not so fast my friends. Friday afternoon I encountered an injury that will shelf me for a time. I fractured my ankle in a water skiing accident in New Jersey. Hopefully I will not be away from my internship any longer than a week. Fear not my downloading friends; for not all is lost! My pain is your gain.
Most artists, regardless of genre, construct their music in such a way that forces the listener down a direct path. As listeners we are usually at the mercy of the composer. One would argue that SleepResearch_Facility does the exact opposite; leaving SleepResearch_Facility to be as vivid or bland as the listener's imagination. Their unique brand of dark ambiance is perhaps best explained from their own official website:
"Sleep Research Facility explores notions of awareness and perception in the sub/unconcious listener. Focusing primarily on sound bereft of rhythm based energies, SRF(acility)'s goal is to provide listening environments wherein the music simply adds texture to the silence. SRF entertains the idea that music can forgoe notions of compositional architecture, resulting in noise which draws attention away from itself, leaving room for the listener to focus on other things (or, focus on nothing at all). SRF puts emphasis on these aesthetics in the search for a kind of "play me quiet" sound suitable for listening to actively or passively depending on circumstances, creating an aural experience which guides the mind through gentle misdirection rather than forcing its attention, allowing listeners to drift in their own diversified thoughts."
Nostromo is the debut album of SleepResearch_Facility that heavily draws its inspiration from the 1979 film, "Alien." Fans of the film will recognize the name of the album bears the same name of the ship; and much like the ship in the film, the album is separated into decks aside from the 2007 bonus track, "Narcissus." Enjoy the tranquility of deep space my friends; but just remember: "In space no one can hear you scream." :)
Year of Release: 2001/2007 (bonus track)
Label: Cold Spring
Genre: Dark Ambient
Track List:
1. a-deck
2. b-deck
3. c-deck
4. d-deck
5. e-deck
6. Narcissus* (bonus)
I guess it's musick swap time. I'm downloading Nostromo & while I'm waiting, I read your Brainticket comment. Musick sharing sure is fun. Sorry about your mishap, but glad you're back here posting, you always have some interesting things to hear.
ReplyDeleteI'll be enjoying your future posts.
Thanks. I am interested in hearing your opinion of Nostromo.
ReplyDeleteI'm probably a fool to state my opinion here after the slagging I took for the last comments a made about some so-called musick...well, I am a fool...but here goes. As you stated, this particular piece draws its inspiration from the movie Alien. In fact the entire release (except for the bonus track "Narcissus") is based on just the first five to eight minutes of the movie...drifting through the deep-space freight hauler Nostromo while the human cargo lie deep in cold-sleep. Utilizing deep ambient minimalistic soundscapes, this journey through Decks A-E is highly intelligent & imaginative. One can almost believe s/he is in the far reaches of space in a quietly vacant, yet unquiet vessel. Eat a couple choice edibles, do a couple shots of Absinthe & strap on the headphones on a lonely stormy night...you will not be disappointed. Also, the added track is a nice dénouement. As SRF paraphrases so well, "Shhh - in space no one can hear you dream"
ReplyDeleteThanks for this one, AllyW, it's a gem.