Θ (Theta) – Vision Of One (Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: The prolific Greek musician Themistoklis Altintzoglou already strikes back with a new album. It’s the second opus released by Zoharum which comes one year after the great “Total Division”.
Content: The new opus features 5 songs which are a new exploration of Dark-Ambient territories. Somewhere in between Soundscape and pure Dark-Ambient music Θ achieved the work with multiple Industrial sound treatments. The tracks are progressively built up and are carried by buzzing sound waves mixed with a true sonic arsenal.
+ + + : This artist only confirms his great skills to compose alluring and atypical Dark-Ambient music. The tracks feature an impressive number of sounds and noises. It feels a bit like listening to a sonic puzzle which comes to apotheosis at the very last piece “Fire From Ashes Redeemed”. It also is an album with a strong visual effect.
– – – : The opening piece sounds a bit hesitant but serves as teaser for the main and consistent part of the album.
Conclusion: Θ stands for a sophisticated format of Dark-Ambient music.
Best songs: “Fire From Ashes Redeemed”, “Where 1000 Hands Point”.
Rate: 8.
Artist: https://thetasounds.org
Label: www.zoharum.com / www.facebook.com/zoharum
Zoharum issued “Vision Of One” on 30 January 2022, digitally and as a CD in a six-panel ecopack limited to 300 copies. The five tracks are “Left At The Desolate Peak”, “Where 1000 Hands Point”, “Weak Spine Of The Crude”, “Solving Dead Mist” and “Fire From Ashes Redeemed”.
Listen to “Vision Of One”:
About Θ (Theta)
Θ (Theta) is the solo project of Greek musician Themistoklis Altintzoglou, working between drone and ambient with industrial sound treatments. Both of his albums for the Polish label Zoharum, run by Maciej Mehring, appeared within twelve months of each other.
The first of those, Θ (Theta) – Total Division, arrived in 2021 and was reviewed by Side-Line in July that year. “Vision Of One” followed one year later and keeps the same cold, metallic sound base.
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