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| Opion Somnium Sewing Feathers in the Flesh Zenapolae While a lot of dark ambient producers reach the genre via industrial music, Somnium claims a contemporary classical background, and hip-hop soundscapes from the likes of cLOUDDEAD inspire him. The result, however, is the same on Sewing Feathers as on something from Soleilmoon: long minor chords, oscillations like the matter sucking of a black hole, moaning and chain-rattling from the undead etc. No beats save for "Asleep on Ashes," and nothing that suggests transitions from track to track except the digital display of your CD player. If you think this kind of sinister ambience is best left for screenings of silent horror films like Nosferatu, this disc won't change your mind. But even goths need betime music, and Sewing Feathers would help induce the nightmares thye're longing for. -Sean Protnoy - Grooves Magazine Issue # 9 (2002) |
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