AutopsiA & Dämmerung Orchestra – Die Werkstatt Vol.3 (EP – Illuminating Technologies)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, Industrial, dark-Ambient.
Format: Digital.
Background/Info: AutopsiA and Dämmerung Orchestra strike back with a next chapter of the “Die Werkstatt”-series, which is meant as ‘Sacred Ceremonies & Ritual Music Of Late Capitalism’.
Content: This EP features 4 tracks, which more than ever before sounds driven by Cinematographic music. You’ll notice Dark-Ambient influences and heavy epic-like arrangements with extra Industrial sounds and noises on top, but the global production remains Cinematographic-like.
+ + + : This is a noticeable production in the Cinematographic/Ambient approach of the band. The tracks are well-crafted, but especially the epic arrangements inject an extra touch of drama to the work. “Working For The Devil 3” is a brilliant piece of music. I also like the more metallic sounds running through the work, which are empowering the Industrial input.
– – – : The EP is maybe missing a kind of ultimate apotheosis, but you don’t hear me complaining as this is a pretty cool listening.
Conclusion: Autopsia has already released an endless number of productions, but this series for sure belongs to their best productions in history.
Best songs: “Working For The Devil 3”, “Working For The Devil 1”.
Rate: 8.
Artist: www.autopsia.net / www.facebook.com/autopsiaofficial
Label: www.illuminating-technologies.com / www.facebook.com/Illuminating-Technologies-224951170817
About AutopsiA
AutopsiA describes itself as a depersonalized art project working across music and visual production, gathering contributors from different disciplines. Its activity began in London in the late 1970s, continued through the 1980s in art centres of the former Yugoslavia, and has been based in Prague since 1990. Discogs credits Radovan Milinković as a member.
The project issued a series of cassettes in the 1980s, among them “Oscularum Infame” in 1987 and “International Aeterna” in 1988. From the 1990s the catalogue moved to CD through the German label Hypnobeat, with “Wound” in 1991, “White Christmas” in 1994, “Humanity Is The Devil 1604 – 1994” in 1995 and “Mystery Science” in 1996. “The Berlin Requiem” appeared on Old Europa Cafe in 2006.
Illuminating Technologies has carried much of the later output, including “Le Chant De La Nuit” and “Radical Machine /1/” in 2005, “Radical Machines Night Landscapes” in 2008, “Karl Rossmann Fragments” in 2009 and the EP “Muspilli” in 2019. One AutopsiA composition is part of the soundtrack to Peter Greenaway’s film “The Pillow Book”.
The “Werkstatt” cycle ran through 2021 as three EPs made with the Dämmerung Orchestra, “Die Werkstatt Vol.1” on 26 May and “Die Werkstatt Vol.2” on 22 June, ahead of this four-track “Die Werkstatt Vol.3”. The eleven-track album “Werkstatt” was issued by Illuminating Technologies on 28 October 2021. Side-Line published a Click Interview with Autopsia on 4 July 2021.
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