SUNN O))) & ULVER Terrestrials (GOLD VINYL) LP

SUNN O))) & ULVER Terrestrials (GOLD VINYL) LP

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DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
  Recorded over the course of a four year period, Terrestrials is the long-awaited new collaboration between experimental drone/doom duo Sunn and the acclaimed dark Norwegian prog band Ulver, and it's a true collaboration that sees the two bands dissolving together into an entirely new sound that doesn't really sound quite like anything either band has brought us before. The session sprung up from their shared appreciation of modern classical music and the 70s-era cosmic jazz found on albums like Alice Coltrane's World Galaxy and Pharaoh Saunders's Karma, and infused those influences into these three long epics of gorgeous nocturnal ambience. Both Sunn's more metallic tendencies and the bombast of the newer Ulver material are greatly subdued, but there's still a lingering darkness that drifts through the slow, celestial currents, making this one of the more mesmeric releases from either artist in quite some time.
   When the album starts off, the sound is not to far off from the dark chamber atmosphere of Ulver's latest album Messe I.X-VI.X, though Sunn's presence is easily detected in the pulses of deep bass tones that reverberate through the space, the surges of distorted metallic drone that rise and fall throughout the record, and in the undercurrents of apocalyptic dread that surface at key moments. Opening with the dark shimmering beauty of "Let There Be Light", the ensemble slowly drifts out into a nebula of stretched kosmische drones, trumpets slowly unfurling into ghostly minimal melodies, a somber, cinematic jazziness curling over smears of backwards sound and swells of sinister low-end rumble. Clusters of dissonant strings swarm beneath the gleam of piano notes that delicately ascend from the song's surface, alighting on solar winds. It stretches out like some solemn hymn, not erupting out of that solemnity until almost the very end when the rumble of percussion suddenly swells up and the music blooms into a crescendo of sinister majesty, the improvised drumming rolling beneath an epic melodic figure, deep distorted metallic heaviness seeping up alongside deep rumbling bass, that Sunn-style dronecrush smoldering beneath this elegiac weight.
   The following piece "Western Horn", on the other hand, is burnished in an apocalyptic glow, descending into darker and more ominous regions as eerie processed choral sounds and fluttering electronic noise sweeps in over more of those haunting trumpets. Some electric piano sounds emerge early on, joined by considered use of resonant distorted bass tones, a sinister minor key progression snaking through those sustained wailing voices and washes of textured sound. Over the course of the nearly ten minute long piece, the atmosphere continues to darken, the feeling of foreboding expanding even as that Rhodes piano-like sound brings a lovely, spectral quality to the music, those gleaming notes pulsing over the creepy steam-whistle drones, sheets of sustained dissonance, and whirring organ tones.
   Mournful violins and ringing, reverb-drenched guitar are woven together on the stirring closer "Eternal Return", which spreads across the final third of the album in a dark stain of Morricone-style western twang. A doleful guitar melody creeps through the background, a fractured, meandering accompaniment to that somber jazziness and those folky strings. A folk-flecked funereal darkjazz, gorgeous and bewitching as Rygg's hushed baritone croon drifts in, a near-whisper cloaked in shadow, with feedback unfurling and speakers humming, eerie organ melodies slipping through the blackness, like some Eastern European funeral folk smeared in jazzy ambience.
   Available on both CD and re-pressed on limited-edition gold vinyl, featuring fantastic minimal album art from Sunn's Stephen O'Malley.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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