Michael Idehall – Serving With Both Hands (EP – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Minimal-Electro.
Format: Digital, Vinyl.
Background/Info: Over more than ten years Michael Idehall has released an impressive discography. He from time to time moves back to Ant-Zen, this new single/EP being his newest work.
Content: The work features 4 tracks characterized by a sonic fusion of minimal electronic sounds and a slow, Industrial cadence. The opening song even features spooky vocals. The other cuts next reveal a similar sound formula, but without vocals.
+ + + : The opening cut “Conjuring Earth” is a masterpiece. This song sounds even visionary to me for the way the Industrial rhythm has been driven by a slow tempo which totally fits with the irresistible Minimal-Electro sound treatments. The vocals inject an extra dark touch to the work. The other cuts left are similar in their global approach, resulting in an original and fascinating work. The slow cadence makes me think a bit about a kind of Industrial-Dub style.
– – – : You get the best track right at the beginning although the entire EP is worth listening.
Conclusion: Michael Idehall is an extremely prolific artist who never stops to take me by surprise.
Best songs: “Conjuring Earth”, “And Evil Come”, “The Death Card”.
Rate: 8.
Listen to “Serving With Both Hands”:
Artist: www.facebook.com/idehall.gbg
Label: www.ant-zen.com / www.facebook.com/antzen.official
About Michael Idehall
Michael Idehall is an electronic musician based in Gothenburg, Sweden. He founded the label Belzebez, which issued a large part of his catalogue between 2013 and 2017.
His discography opens with the cassette “This Is A Voice / Field Recording From The Temple Of Xobop Ong-Bagz” on GEIGER Grammofon in 2011. The 3CD set “Three Bull Kings For Three Golden Queens” followed on Belzebez in 2013 and the cassette album “Deep Code” on Beläten in 2014. Ant-Zen issued the 12-track compilation “Retrospective 1999-2003” in 2017. He then self-released “Va Dormir, Margarete” and the “MARAX EP” in 2019, “Blood Poison” and “Crowned Fool” in 2020, and “War Magic” in 2021.
Side-Line listed Idehall among the contributors to the Coil tribute compilation “Channeling The Solar Lodge” in March 2021. “Serving With Both Hands” returned him to Ant-Zen in 2022.
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