playlist artwork#12 this weekNyx

by Grünemusik

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1 4:17 2522 listens
2 5:26 1429 listens
3 3:50 887 listens
4 3:07 721 listens
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Nyx
11:04 646 listens
6 2:56 543 listens

About this album

  • Updated: 10/11/2008

The primordial goddess of the night. Dark ambient atmosphere with Miku-dub.
Notes on tracks:
1) Melisma singing of the vocaloid Miku in the eastern Asia fravor.
2) Electric ambient dub in three parts with vocaloid's chant.
3) A dub version segued from the previous track.
4) Aether is the elemental god of the "Bright, Glowing, Upper Air." Minimal sequence of electric piano diverges.
5) Nyx, the goddess of the night, appears from the bottom of dark ancient Chaos. Based on a session with Fukataku, the drummer.
6) A short sketch in five. The vocaloid Miku sings the last one verse to fade out.

Illustration: Nyx, Brygos Painter, after 490 BC, Berlin, Germany (Copyright expired)

 

 

 

 

 

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balthaz

Big Bang

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balthaz • 2009-08-26 11:41:28

Au travers d'une évocation inspirée de la théogonie d'Hesiode, ce groupe nous emporte, après un prélude saturé de senteurs orientales (Kanaan), dans un voyage halluciné au coeur des premiers instants de la création. De magnifiques percussions, façon électro/dub Japonais, nous entraine du vide mouvant et infini du chaos à la plénitude créatrice de la nuit, au travers de compositions qui empruntent autant à Pierre Henri qu'à Tangerine Dream ou Terry Riley (on pensera souvent à 'Rainbow in Curved Air' ou à 'Atem'). Ce trip psyché-cosmique est tout simplement fabuleux, et le titre final, 'In a Distant Time', est une perle pop délicieusement acidulée.
muz

Bon album

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muz • 2009-08-26 18:56:39

Oui on est bien dans la Nuit mais une nuit lumineuse. Grâce, en autres, à l'emploi (intelligent) de vocaloid (miku en l'occurence, voix japonaise à la base) les rythmes plutôt hypnotiques (et même assez "tribales") sont comme transcendés et ce voyage dans la Nuit primordiale n'est pas aussi lugubre que supposé. "Aether" est magique. "Kanaan" fond comme une douceur orientale, etc... Très bon mini album dans le genre. Thanks for sharing ;)
raquelwelsh

<<<<<< SUSPENS >>>>>>>

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raquelwelsh • 2009-08-17 22:23:40

Serait très utile accompagnant de superbes spectacles, pour en mettre plein la vue et marquer ainsi le suspens qui s'en dégage... Je pense surtout aux titres : Erebos I et II ainsi qu'Aether. Le plaisir des oreilles additionné du plaisir des yeux, c'est une merveille, "MAGIC" !
GOTARD

Nieokreślona słodycz słuchania.

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GOTARD • 2010-06-15 21:01:13

Trudno okreslić płyte nie dająca zamknąć się w konkretnym gatunku muzycznym,do tego tak ciekawą. Pozytywne wibracje towarzysza tu od poczatku do końca za sprawą przyjemnych klawiszy i naprawdę fajnego wokalu do tego w ojczystym Japońskim... Jest tu coś humorystycznego,co kojarzy się ze współczesną kultura tego sympatycznego kraju. Chyba każdy musi sam posłuchac by zgodzic sie lub nie z tym stwierdzeniem iż płyta jest absolutnie GENIALNA.
brendaclews

Profound experimental music for the inner journeys...

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brendaclews • 2009-09-13 14:29:40

A large vision. I listened to 30 sec of the first track last night and downloaded without reading your notes. This morning, out with the dog in the morning air, I listened. And I thought how far some of our musicians have moved from 'traditional' music, though I was not thinking of the Orient but of the European concert. Melody and rhythm don't exist in this album in the traditional sense. There is a beat, but it is organic. As if we are moving through a deep underground cave. Echoes. Stalagtites. Distant water where diving is so deep as to be depthless. Strange sea creatures in those black waters of the lakes in the underground caves. Ecstatic diving, bubbles, cool pure water. As we move through the dark cool chambers of the cave, its damp limestone walls, light cascades in occasionally. Ebullient. Nourishment for our earthbound bodies. The woman singing is both ethereal, like a Greek siren calling, or an angel healing, for she is both, and also a sense of being synthesized, produced. We move through Nyx as if in a movie. I felt an archetypal narrative unfolding in my depths. The "Primordial goddess of the night"... wow! Yes! I felt her, strongly, in my first listening, before referring to the notes. The drums throughout hold everything together for me. They are my link to traditional music, tribal music, and the power of the Orient beats here too. Fukataku's drumming anchors the subterranean journey of this soundscape. This soundscape in 6 sections - organic sonic world of strange sounds and energies and things sweeping, by, close, far, ebulliently, darkly, it's almost a ghost world, and yet more primal than that. The human and the animal and the synthesized all co-alesque in this deeply mythological, archetypal music that is ambient and trance and has flavours of traditional Japanese influence which takes the listener through a deep inner journey in the dark and mysterious places of the soul.
Mawr Gorshin

Atmospheric

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Mawr Gorshin • 2009-08-19 19:07:45

Though I wasn't too crazy about the opening track, the rest of the music was wonderfully dream-like and ambient, especially 'Nyx' and the last cut. Good stuff.
daisylis

Sans voix....

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daisylis • 2009-08-26 14:31:51

...tant cette voix est envoûtante et m'a laissée sans voix. La critique de Balthaz, que je remercie au passage pour la recom est explicite. Pour ma part je ne mieux dire que B R A V O.
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