God Body Disconnect – The Wanderer’s Dream (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, Dark-Ambient.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: American composer Bruce Moallem strikes back with his fifth solo-album. It all looks like he moved on where his previous opus “The Depths Of Finality” stopped; a hard struggle with inner demons and the hard struggle with it.
Content: The sound formula Bruce Moallem is using hasn’t really changed. The album sounds a tiny bit less versatile as its predecessor, but the listener will again be invited to embark for an intimate cinematographic trip, chasing the inner demons of the musician. The production is less tormented, but more into a dark prosperity. Field recordings, featuring explicit aquatic noises, have been merged together with obscure tones and chilling atmospheres.
+ + + : God Body Disconnect seems to become a true therapy for its author. The intimate character is coming through although it doesn’t totally reflect the ‘concept’ or main theme. It rather sounds like pure dark-reverie. I like this prosperity accentuated by abyssal effects and directly coming through at the first track.
– – – : I sometimes get the feeling the simple fact of composing his music as a way to chase his inner demons, became more important to Bruce Moallem than the global result. I totally respect this method –which is a perfect cure and part of the healing process, but I definitely prefer the earlier productions.
Conclusion: Music -and expression generally speaking, both remain the best way to self-insight and cure; this Cinematographic trip is a new chapter in the process of God Body Disconnect to express emotions.
Best songs: “The Ghost That Dwells Within”, “The Heart Unfolds”.
Rate: 6½.
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 has released its albums through Cryo Chamber.
“The Wanderer’s Dream” was released on 6 April 2021. Moallem wrote, produced and performed the seven tracks, Simon Heath handled mastering and Erik Osvald supplied the artwork. The running order is “The Heart Unfolds”, “Dreaming of my Former Self”, “The Road that Repeats”, “Beckoning Me to Cross Over”, “An Emptiness that Persists”, “The Ghost that Dwells Within” and “Who I was, is not who I’ll Become”.
Cryo Chamber issued God Body Disconnect – The Dormancy (Album – Cryo Chamber) in January 2022, followed by “Spiral Of Grief” later that year and God Body Disconnect – The Weight Of Regression (Album – Cryo Chamber) in 2023. Moallem set out his approach to the project in the 2023 Click Interview with God Body Disconnect: ‘The Project Can Be Viewed As A Blueprint To My Life’. The most recent album, God Body Disconnect – Detune The Tragic Light (Digital/CD Album – Cryo Chamber), was reviewed in March 2025.
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