Formalhaut & Nimh – From The Longest Winter (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Cinematic.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: This album resulted from the collaborative efforts between Giuseppe Verticchio (Italy) and Tomasz Borowski (Poland). Nimh is a familiar and renowned name who has also collaborated with numerous artists while Formalhaut seems to be a new project.
Content: Most of the tracks are driven by Dark-Ambient and Cinematic influences. It’s an ultra-dark sound universe created by boiling sound treatments and overwhelming, monstrous, sounds. There are passages featuring a somewhat Eastern sound atmosphere while I also noticed a slow cadence on one of the tracks. The last cut is more into reverie created by guitar playing and -effects.
+ + + : A successful collaboration always resulted from certain chemistry between the artists. That’s precisely what I experienced listening to “From The Longest Winter” revealing a true sonic match between both projects. I like the feeling of eternal darkness supporting this work and which has been created by a judicious mix between electronics and guitar. The way all these sounds have been assimilated and manipulated resulted in a dense sonic patchwork of heavy sounds and overwhelming sound waves. “Descent Of The Shadows” is my favorite track and I here like the slow kind of cadence bringing a true extra to the composition. The title track is another cut I’ve to mention for its somewhat Eastern atmosphere and the heavy sound treatments.
– – – : The last track of the album is the single cut that couldn’t convince me of being a kind of anticlimax to the aforementioned highlights. I also noticed there’s no tracklist featured on the CD-format artwork.
Conclusion: This is a successful collaboration between two inspired and complementary artists.
Best songs: “Descent Of The Shadows”, “The Longest Winter”, “Before The Night”.
Rate: 8.
Artist: www.facebook.com/tomasz.borowski.165 / www.facebook.com/giuseppe.verticchio.3 / http://www.oltreilsuono.com/nimh
Label: www.zoharum.com / www.facebook.com/zoharum
About Nimh and Formalhaut
Nimh is the main project of Italian artist Giuseppe Verticchio, active under that name since 2001 across ambient, industrial and ritual influences. Early releases include “The Impossible Days” and “Whispers From The Ashes” with Nefelheim, both issued by Amplexus in 2004. Verticchio has since worked on collaborative albums with Maurizio Bianchi as “Together’s Symphony” in 2005, with Pierpaolo Zoppo as Mauthausen Orchestra on “From Unhealthy Places” in 2009, and with Andrea Marutti as Amon on the “Hall Of Mirrors” series. His sole LP under the Nimh name, “This Crying Era”, appeared on Synästhesie Schallplatten in 2012 and was later reissued in extended form as “Beyond The Crying Era” on Winter-Light.
Formalhaut is the project of Polish musician Tomasz Borowski. No further verified discography is available for Formalhaut beyond the current collaboration.
Verticchio and Borowski joined forces as Formalhaut & Nimh for “From The Longest Winter”, released on Zoharum in digital and CD formats.
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