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i.m.m.u.r.e. "The New Circle" CD-R (ltd. 250) ZHB-XXI 1. Yellow Town 2. Empty 3. Once [mp3: fragment] 4. Conversation 5. Happy Birthday 6. In Love with Dog [mp3: full track] 7. Too Much Joy 8. Lithium 9. Casket Full of Dreams [mp3: fragment] total length: 43:39 release date: November 02, 2009 price: €8 |
The project i.m.m.u.r.e. is a part of St. Petersburg based musical foundation Forbidden Sounds Group and "The New Circle" is its first release on physical media. Before this the project successfully performed live several times and released a number of recordings on the net-label DNA Productions. The music of i.m.m.u.r.e. combines serious dark ambient, rhythmic electronics and psychedelic industrial in vein of English school a la Coil. It is full of gloomy melodies, light noises and sonic experiments, and is flavoured with morbid vocals narrating about infinite love to the dog and other schizophrenic joys of life. Part of the compositions from the album appeared to the author in his dreams. A nice soundtrack for an introspective pastime.
Reviews
[...] I.M.M.U.R.E. are not easy to pin down I thought. There are pieces in which a keyboard plays a melody, but with somebody else playing some electro acoustic music on top. What is a consistent feature here on this release, is the use of reverb. Its used a bit too extensively for my taste and used to create that creepy atmosphere they deem necessary for their music. If there is an influence to be mentioned for them, then I'd say Coil comes close, and when they use vocals there is someone who tries to sound like David Tibet. Throughout the music is mostly instrumental, meandering into experimental electronics, sometimes spiced up with bouncing rhythms and sounds borrowed from the world of techno, sometimes losing themselves a bit too much in the experiment, such as in the piece 'Casket Full Of Dreams', but throughout this was a very nice psychedelic ride.
i.m.m.u.r.e. is an experimental project from St. Petersburg founded in 2006 by Alexey Oleynikov. Before album The New Circle released by label Zhelezobeton project's music was released by net-label DNA Production. On this organization's site one can find several solo works of i.m.m.u.r.e., they are rather interesting researches of abstract substance of drone ambient and experiments with digital noises. The new album is an elegant and courageous step towards psychedelics and melodies, and it seems to me that it noticeably reveals the creative potential of its author, more slyly operating with listener's mood. Undoubtedly, The New Circle can be called a new round in musician's development.
From the first, entering track "Yellow Town" music deepens you into psychedelic bath of reverberations and extensive drones. Oleynikov's voice diffuses with them, he monotonously declaims hardly distinguishable text. His voice will be heard further here and there, sometimes thoroughly supplemented with effects. That's easy to frighten kids with such "vocal", and not all grown ups will stay imperturbable if it's dark outside. And according to its horror percent, track "In Love With Dog" can be compared to Andrew Liles or Leafcutter John - masters of making people feel creepy all over. The New Circle forever shifts somewhere the dark sides of city suburbs where industrial buildings are mixed with houses-barracks, and rare street lamps throw dull streams of light tears over the dirty asphalt. Fast shifts are dangerous, time accounting slows down, it seems that night has come forever. Sometimes composition is led by melodies, like pulse of gloomy thoughts in mind, sometimes there appears even something like rhythm. But in general abstraction level always remains high.
Quintessence of the album becomes a wonderful 15-minutes track "Casket Full Of Dreams" which can be called an attractive trip to the collection of nightmarish dreams. Drone, howling, rumble, scraps of speech samples - it all boiling in waves of reverberations, slightly comes up over the Earth and takes the listener away to the open space, where of no doubt, there is what to think about.
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