Nordvargr – Resignation I-II-III (Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Techno, Cinematic.
Format: Digital, 3CD, 3Vinyl.
Background/Info: Henrik Nordvargr Björkk strikes back with a new and massive production under his own name. This album features twenty seven songs. The album- and vinyl mixes seem to be different, which makes it even more interesting.
Content: Nordvargr is an artist I’ve always linked with Ultra-Dark-Ambient and Experimental stuff. This work features typical tracks in this genre, but also takes the listener by surprise. Nordvargr mixed his obscure sound atmospheres with Techno kicks. The result is surprising and definitely injecting something new to Techno- and Dark-Ambient genres.
+ + + : The mix of opposite influences -at least 2 styles you don’t really imagine to be complementary, is definitely one of the biggest challenges in the career of Nordvargr. But the Swedish giant is also a genius. He merges both influences with a surprising harmony. You need a few tracks to get used to it, but once you’re in it you’ll realize the originality and efficiency of this sonic osmosis. Some passages are even ending into Trance while the electronic layers remains obscure and creating a tormented atmosphere.
– – – : Three albums is a lot and even if the work is varied, it remains a particular experience in sound, which I’m sure will be not praised by Dark-Ambient ‘purists’.
Conclusion: This album by Nordvargr sounds like dance music for ghosts.
Best songs: “4IV – Rmx”, “3III”, “1I”, “4IV”, “Totem Visitations”, “Evil Eyes Impaled”, “When Serpents Appear – BURG Rmx”.
Rate: 8.
Artist: www.nordvargr.com / www.facebook.com/hnordvargr
Label: www.cycliclaw.com / www.facebook.com/cycliclaw
About Nordvargr
Behind Nordvargr is Swedish musician Henrik Nordvargr Björkk. At sixteen he bought a Roland SH-101 synthesizer and started recording music inspired by DAF and Front 242, work that led to the band Pouppée Fabrikk. In 1988 Björkk became part of the black industrial group Maschinenzimmer 412, later Mz.412, whose first album “Malfeitor” was released on Cold Meat Industry in 1989.
Björkk has since recorded under his own name, as Nordvargr and as Folkstorm, and in collaborations with Trepaneringsritualen and Thomas Ekelund. Cold Spring first issued the album “Pyrrhula” in 2008 and released a vinyl edition of that album in a limited run of 500 copies in 2021.
“Resignation I-II-III” was released by Cyclic Law on digital, 3CD and 3LP, with twenty seven tracks and different album and vinyl mixes.
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