This is the first of the longer WMRI releases for review. Dark Passage by name and a dark passage by nature. In reality is one long piece divided into 6 smaller continuous sections although the physical track breaks don't always line up with the actual music ones. Not noticable if listened to from start to finish but if you start midway or your player automatically inserts a gap between tracks then it's not ideal. The openers, 1 and 2, give the piece a solid and scene setting start. At times I found these quite reminiscent of some of the early works by Caustic Reverie, in itself very much a positive. The piece really takes off though with Passage3. Swirling synths, eerie, dark, foreboding gloom all come into the mix and developing feel. Swiftly into Passage4 and the theme continues unabated. This, the longest section, and combined with 3 are my personal favourites. What did become evident to me as 4 progressed was despite all the darkness, doom and gloom, one thing was missing. Coldness. The work retains a level of warmth throughout, nothing hot but still some warmth. Quite strange. I'm not sure why the coldness is not present but my guess is the pace is perhaps not quite slow enough. At times a definite feeling of background hurry can be heard and maybe this accounts for the warmer sound. The final passages are nice rounders and give the work a suitable air of completion. All in all, a fine effort. Thanks for sharing it and I look forward to the next one with renewed expectation.

Отличный альбом) Очень напоминает бэкграунд в компьютерной игре Silent Hill. Отличная работа!

eerie and spooky. i love it! thank you for sharing.

Wonderful, dark atmospheres that send a shiver up your spine!

Amazing is the plate... It is hard to describe all emotions which accompany me while listening this music... I these passages will not walk too often, something lies wait in them... Splendid music. Thanks for the publication. Respect.Rewelacyjna to płyta... Trudno opisać wszystkie emocje, jakie towarzyszą mi podczas słuchania tej muzyki... Tymi pasażami nie będę za często chodził, coś się w nich czai... Wspaniała muzyka. Dzięki za publikację. Szacun.

Une lente et progressive descente dans les profondeurs ténébreuses et abyssales de l'Enfer. Terrifiant et envoûtant !

Very good dark ambient sound. Really captures the imagination. 9/10

Очень интересная работа.....!!!

Like a premonition pulling a snake out from under his rock, fate draws me here. And, I was interested by a couple of remarks by our good ciderlord. I eagerly agree with the good start, it set a paradise vision tantalizing my inner mythology. That I have some difficulty waxing lyrically about, this transcends words as such. This in part is due to the simplification of naming the tracks I-VI, though simultaneously integrating a sense of an eternity of possibilities of creative, sound-induced imaginative splendour. It certainly is a single piece, though I also believe a cyclical piece, a sense of eternity. To be empirical about it, I would need to stick it on repeat to prove the point, but this is why I love this form of sound manipulation. This helps me relax so profoundly knowing that someone, somewhere else... at least one single human being can feel what I see, and see what I feel. Furthermore, there is the paradoxical need for noise to quieten my brain activity. Something like the towel getting wetter the more it dries. That is our ciderlord's 'hurry' in the background. In the labyrinths in dark space, there is a relentless background shower of misery and suffering. The place is alive with a constant knowledge of a flurry of activity throughout the regions therein. Equilibrium has been another keyword for today, and when it comes to dark passages; whatever their number, reiteration, revolution... having a good sense of balance to negotiate the netherworld is an absolute prerequisite. Ciderlord also mentioned 'coldness', which I found interesting also. The warmth felt with this netherworld, being so alive with activity and bearing in mind it's all about the further regions of experience, is simply generated by this dynamic perpetuation of unimaginable interactions of flows of consciousness. Darkness removes sensorial information to a high degree. Orientation is difficult, and all the horrors that may be imagined are waiting for you in the darkness, to tear your sane comprehension to shreds; your knowledge of yourself potentially shocked into shards. The mind may run wild with a blank canvas, dark or light. Either way, the potential, magical, mind-shattering experiential overload is worth the courage to explore the unknown.

listening as i replay some of the advanced chambers in portal 1. great game needs great music. excellent work 308... good use of reverb on selective sounds, instead of just drowning everything in awash, it is used as it should be, to place sounds in certain locations. thanks for helping me think tonight!