Friday, August 5, 2022

Entry 019 - School of Silent Illumination - Sea of Monochrome

 


 

This album is in my collection as a result of a deep dive into Bandcamp. I found this under the ambient tag and found the record for 12 euros... 16 shipped, no brainier.

Sea of Monochrome consists of six separate tracks. Each one contains a very distinct sound and mood - yet they all tie together to create a complete album.

Most of the songs are solidly in the drone genre, containing minimal melodies over long and slow to develop passages. The album does offer variety however. Every now and then there will be percussion thrown in (that startled the hell out of me the first time I listened), it adds just enough variety to keep the it from becoming too one dimensional.

Other tracks will vary the pace or add just a bit of dissonance - all elements that are quite welcome. Is this album a game changer? No, it is not - it is a nice album that knows exactly what it wants to be and achieves that with flying colors. For 16 euros this one is hard to pass up.

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