Ajna & Dödsapparaten – Season (CD Album – Reverse Alignment)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient,
Background/Info: “Season” resulted from the common efforts between Chris F. aka Ajna and David Bengtsson aka Dödsapparaten. This meeting between an American- and a Swedish project gave birth to seven tracks, which have been dedicated to the loss of a close friend.
Content: I’m more familiar with the work of Ajna, which you can partly recognize in the creation of icy sound atmospheres. “Season” reveals to be a travel throughout darkness featuring long, monotonous sound waves alternated with little noises. You sometimes get the impression of walking through a stormy sonic creation symbolizing a lost world. The darkness of the work is also reflected in the title of the tracks: “Destruction”, “Rot”, “Malaise”, “Anguish”.
+ + + : This album has something intimate and even inhibited. It however has a strong visual appeal giving you the impression to walk in solitude throughout a desperate landscape. There’s an unassuming aspect in this work, which also makes it fascinating.
– – – : This album is alluring, but it also feels like there’s more potential in it than what came out. That’s maybe a good reason to consider another album.
Conclusion: “Season” is not what I would consider a ‘must have’-album, but it reveals a real potential, which I hope will inspire both artists to renew the experience of working together.
Best songs: “Season V: Amnesia”, “Season IV: Malaise”.
Rate: (7).
Artist: www.facebook.com/Dodsapparaten
Label: www.facebook.com/reversealignment
About Ajna & Dödsapparaten
Ajna is the dark ambient project of Chris F., based in New York and active since 2008. His first release, “The Strange Demeanor of Solitude,” appeared on the Petroglyph Music netlabel in 2013, followed by his first physical release, “Inevitable Mortality,” in 2016. Ajna joined Cyclic Law in 2018 for the album “Lucid Intrusion,” issued in an edition of 300 copies. Dödsapparaten is the project of Swedish artist David Bengtsson. “Season” marks the pair’s only collaboration to date, released on Reverse Alignment.
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