God Body Disconnect – The Dormancy (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Cinematographic.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: This is the sixth album by God Body Disconnect. Nine songs where Bruce Moallem invites the listeners to embark for a new sonic journey throughout the inner self.
Content: It’s not pure Cinematographic and/or Dark-Ambient music, but definitely a related style. The composer is mixing dark Electronic atmospheres together with field recordings and narrating voices. The tracks have been progressively built up, the field recordings accentuating the visual strength of the work till the last track revealing piano playing bringing the work to a higher dimension.
+ + + : The previous work of God Body Disconnect couldn’t totally convince me while this new opus brings us back to the essence of the project. I like the desperate sphere emerging at the surface. It all reflects a state of mental illness… solitude for sure, sometimes becoming a paranoid experience accentuated by the ghost-like storytelling. I also have to say a word about great field recordings accentuating the visual aspect.
– – – : This is definitely one of my favorite God Body Disconnect releases, which is just missing a few little details to speak about a true masterpiece.
Conclusion: “Dormancy” is an intriguing title and state of being masterly adapted into an inhibited, but poignant music piece.
Best songs: “Numb Rooms”, “The Dormancy”, “The Difference”.
Rate: 8.
Artist: www.facebook.com/godbodydisconnect
Label: www.cryochamberlabel.com / www.facebook.com/CryoChamber
About God Body Disconnect
God Body Disconnect is the dark ambient project of Bruce Moallem, based in New Jersey in the United States. The project builds its pieces from electronic atmospheres, field recordings and spoken passages.
The album chronology starts with “Dredge Portals” in 2016 and continues with “Sleeper’s Fate” in 2017, “Miles To Midnight” in 2018, “The Mist Between Mirrors” in 2019, “The Depths Of Finality” in 2020 and “The Wanderer’s Dream” in 2021. Cryo Chamber released “The Dormancy” in 2021 on CD and in digital formats.
Moallem has kept the project running since, with “Spiral Of Grief” in 2022, “The Weight Of Regression” in 2023, “Dreams To Be Buried In” in 2024 and “Lost Within Loss” and “Detune The Tragic Light” in 2025. He described the project in Click Interview with God Body Disconnect: ‘The Project Can Be Viewed As A Blueprint To My Life’.
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