Omega Attraktor – Fields Of Sorrow (EP – Nambshub Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Dark-Ambient.
Format: Digital.
Background/Info: “Fields Of Sorrow” is the third album released by the Swiss duo Ken Gubler – Oliver Jaeggi aka Omega Attraktor.
Content: The work features 6 cuts taking off in a rather Experimental way mixed with Ambient atmospheres. There’re also minimal sound treatments running through their work which are often repetitive like a warning signal. The work progressively evolves towards darker Ambient fields accomplished with analogue-like sound treatments. The tracks are pretty long, one even going over the 18 minute mark.
+ + + : The debut part of the work is the less interesting one so you’ve to be patient to get into this work. Once you’re listening to the third track things are starting to become more interesting. I like the minimalism running through “Distance Bells”, the disturbing sphere hanging over “Undulations” and “Art Two Part3” which is the final- and ultimate piece of the album revealing great sound treatments.
– – – : Both debut cuts aren’t really encouraging to go on listening so you need patience to discover the true potential of the project.
Conclusion: “Fields Of Sorrow” brings different influences together resulting in an atypical but appealing Electro/Experimental/Ambient sound.
Best songs: “Art Two Part3”, “Undulations”, “Distance Bells”, “Distance Sooth Denial”.
Rate: 8.
Artist: https://omegaattraktor.bandcamp.com
Label: https://subsist.bandcamp.com
“Fields Of Sorrow” was released on 15 March 2022 as a digital album through Subsist and Faith Disciplines. The six tracks are “Proclamation”, “Fields of Sorrow”, “Distance Sooth Denial”, “Distance Bells”, “Undulations” and “Art two part3”. The headline of this review names Nambshub Records as the label, while the Bandcamp page for the release credits Subsist and Faith Disciplines.
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About Omega Attraktor
Omega Attraktor is an electronic duo from Zürich and Winterthur in Switzerland, formed by Ken Gubler and Oliver Jaeggi. The pair set out to make machine music that joins modern electro with the sound and the dystopian mood of late-80s electronic body music, building repetitive structures that are played live on step sequencers and synthesizers rather than programmed in a sequencer window.
The duo’s own Bandcamp page carries the earlier releases “unity one EP”, “compulsive affection disorder”, “space time continuum”, “beings of the dawn” and “ghost machine contraption”. “Fields Of Sorrow”, the third album, moved the project toward longer and more openly experimental pieces and was issued through the Subsist and Faith Disciplines imprints on 15 March 2022.
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