Background/Info:
One
year after the debut album “Exoplanetary”, Scottish artist Aleister Rennie is
back on track with a new opus inspired by his compatriot, Dr Archibald Macrae
of the Transatlantic Institute of Archaeological Investigations who in 1936
made a critical discovery, recovering an array of materials compiled by his
colleague and mentor, Dr Marian Tarknassus, who has disappeared five years
earlier while working on the mysterious ancient scripts of the ‘Pictish Ogham’.
Content:
The
main characteristic of the work is the introduction of every track, which is
created by fragmented narrative parts of the main protagonist of this concept.
It’s a kind of guideline, which is always evolving into dark, cinematic sound
layers made of astral sound treatment and sequences, field recordings, cold
strings and weird piano playing. Sometimes evasive, but mainly mysterious the
work reveals 9 tracks.
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+ + :
Listening to “Exoplanetary” sounds a bit like discovering a sonic
documentary or short film. The concept is interesting and definitely intriguing
because of the global atmosphere recovering this opus. It has something
atypical, definitely creative and diversified. The fragmented speech extracts
are mysterious and increase the mystery supporting this work.
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I noticed a few less convincing cuts, but especially “The Grim Repasts
Of Cullen Shores” left me unmoved.
Conclusion: Ruptured World clearly tries to bring something different to the cinematographic music genre. I think the best is yet to come, but what I’ve thus far is enjoyable.
Best songs: “The Revelations Of The Cipher – Deciphering The Pictish Ogham”, “The Haven”, “The Aura Of Drostan’s Well”.
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