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Audela Audela Catalog#: Plague 002 Format: CD Debut CD featuring 5 tracks made between 1992 and 2007. Tracklisting 1. Part 1 (19:03) 2. Part 2 (14:17) 3. Part 3 (18:34) 4. Part 4 (15:41) 5. Part 5 (12:03) Reviews "Audela's eponymous debut landed on the awesome Plague Recordings label sometime in 2007. The first in a series of nine CDs, 'Audela' is concerned with the bleakest strains of pitch black ambient music, recalling the work of Lustmord, Deathprod, and Thomas Köner with chilling accuracy. You know how this stuff goes, all drifting tones and symphonic washes of muted, wintry colour, but as anyone who cherishes and pays attention to this stuff will realise, the key to this sound is as elusive as the gaseous tones themselves. This album knowingly steers wide of dark ambient cheese through consistently mysterious and uncompromising arrangements, and also a wide yet cohesive palette of tones and drones. The first part distinctly reminds us of the feelings conveyed in Leyland Kirby's 'Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What It Was', only with an even more ghoulish temperament, while the sullen third and fourth parts sounds like they were recorded in the bowels of a groaning, sunken supertanker teetering on the edge of an oceanic abyss. A fifth section feel more like arcane black metal, filling the unfathomably wide space with the spectral resonance of some ancient chant, or possibly a Cocteau Twins track slowed down 800%, Justin Bieber style. Those with a taste for the unheimlich and the unholy should lap this up." (Boomkat, UK) |