Fata Morgana is a side project of Mortiis from the mid 90's. While Mortiis' main project focuses on longer compositions, the songs on Fata Morgana are much shorter. 7 songs in about 40 minutes.
The album is pretty rough. It seems like random ideas patched together. Some songs will start to develop one melody and then abruptly switch to another, then back to the original.
Other songs have some excruciating choices on instrumentation. The tones are ear piercing and are pretty tough to listen to physically.
That said, this is all part of the charm of the album. Its primitive, its raw, it sounds like it was played on a Casio keyboard in a basement... or a dungeon.
The original cover for the album is light coming in form an intricate stained glass window. I think that is a fitting visual for some of the atmosphere this album provides. Beams of light refracted by glass while in the halls of an abandoned church.
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