Kloob & Onasander – Tempestarii (Album – Winter-Light)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: Two years after their successful album “Mundus Patet”, Dani Kloob (Spain) and Maurizio Landini (Italy) accomplished a new collaborative album. The album is a new conceptual work driven by Medieval faith in Weather magicians.
Content: From the very first seconds and notes both artists lead the listener into an obscure, dark, and frightening sound atmosphere. The overwhelming atmospheres are accentuated by Industrial noises and echoing percussion sounds. You’ll notice passages featuring humming voices and female chants which now and then inject an Ritual touch on top of the production.
+ + + : It’s great to see both artists collaborated together again. There’s a true chemistry between both artists and you really get the sensation listening to a real project instead of collaboration. The production is one again overwhelming creating a sensation of torment. You don’t really feel comfortable and relaxed listening to this work, but that’s exactly what you expect from this music genre. The tracks are fully accomplished with numerous little sonic details.
– – – : I can’t say the album has any real minus points.
Conclusion: Hard to say if this new opus is better than its predecessor but I can only advise listening to both productions which stands for top notch Dark-Ambient music.
Best songs: “The Malefici”, “Furious Dawn”, “Nocturnal Harvest”, “De Grandine And Tonitruis”.
Rate: 8½.
Artists: www.facebook.com/kloobmusic / www.facebook.com/onasander
Label: www.winter-light.nl / www.facebook.com/winter.light.1
About Kloob & Onasander
Kloob is the electronic project of Daniel Ferreira, based in Barcelona, Spain. He worked in progressive house before turning to ambient, experimental and dark ambient music in 2010. Onasander is the project of Maurizio Landini, from Italy. Both record for the Dutch label Winter-Light.
Kloob released “Deep Emotional Phases” in 2015 and “Solid Foundations” in 2016, both on Relaxed Machinery, before moving to Winter-Light for “Remarkable Events” in 2018 and “Unpredictable Signs” in 2019. The self-released “Cryptic Interactions” followed in 2020 and “Parallel States” on Winter-Light in 2021.
The two first worked together on “Mundus Patet”, released by Winter-Light in 2020 and built around the Roman rite in which an infernal door was opened three times a year. In the ‘Click Interview’ with Kloob & Onasander, Landini stated: “We simply exchanged some layers to work on. Everything was very natural: the result was in perfect harmony.” “Tempestarii” is their second album together, again on Winter-Light, and a third, “Goês”, followed in 2023. Landini later discussed his own work in a separate Onasander interview.
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