The Corvidae Cabal – Seeing Time (Album – Crionic Mind)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Ritual.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: The Corvidae Cabal is another project by Scott E. Candey (Gruntsplatter and Crionic Mind label owner). He released several productions under this moniker during the past few years.
Content: The Corvidae Cabal sounds partly driven by Dark-Ambient atmospheres, but the artist also injected more influences to composition. You’ll notice some slow cadence and drones while some passages evoke a Ritual approach by the repetitive and linear loops. The album reveals 9 tracks, which are progressively built up, reaching their ultimate state of fear at the very last cut.
+ + + : I personally prefer The Covidae Cabal instead of Gruntsplatter. Both projects are driven by evil forces transposed into an obscure sound approach, but this project is more into explicit Dark-Ambient elements. But I especially like the way Scott E. Candey is empowering his composition with other elements. It creates a new dimension, which just as Dark-Ambient music is characterized by a strong visual appeal of torment and horror. I was impressed by the somewhat Ritual sounding “That Emptying Room” and the very last track “A Dehiscent Heart”, which sounds like a true apotheosis.
– – – : You have to be patient while listening to this album, the best cuts emerge in the midst and the final part of the album.
Conclusion: “Seeing Time” sounds like a dark sonic trip throughout the endless corridors of a tormented mind.
Best songs: “A Dehiscent Heart”, “That Emptying Room”, “The White Suitcase”, “Beyond The Eidolon”.
Rate: 8.
Artist & Label: www.crionicmind.org
About The Corvidae Cabal
The Corvidae Cabal is a dark ambient project of Scott E. Candey, who also runs Gruntsplatter and the Crionic Mind label from Portland, Oregon. The project began in 2018 with four self-released digital titles: “In Peculiar Air”, “Betwixt & Between”, “Call Of The Absurd” and “The Ineffable Nighttide”.
“Seeing Time” first appeared as a self-released digital record in 2020 and was issued by Crionic Mind on 29 April 2021 as a limited nine-track CD. Candey wrote and recorded it at Life Of The Mind in Portland in the autumn of 2020; Thomas Garrison handled mastering and Nora Candey supplied the photography. The sleeve notes dedicate the record to her memory and describe it as tracing the mind’s process at the end of life.
The CDr “Primordial Shadows” followed on total division later in 2021, then the limited CD “The Gossamer Bridge” on Crionic Mind in 2022 and the self-released “Not Ours To See” in 2025.
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