NERATERRÆ - Scenes from the Sublime (2020) EN

A year ago the Italian artist Alessio Antoni shocked the ambient world with his debut album where he gathered a lot of offstream stars of the genre in impressive collaborations. When it seemed that such a good album would be difficult to top, his project NERATERRÆ and the Berlin-based label Cyclic Law released the album called Scenes from the Sublime.

Just as he did before, Antoni invited some important for ambient names from all over the world. And so we have here Martin Stürtzer a.k.a. Phelios, the Dødsmaskin duo, Slovakian Phragments, Mount Shrine from Brazil, the great Mohamada Rezę known as Xerxes the Dark etc, etc. A real star constellation. But it's worth mentioning that stars are also present in the list of inspirations the Italian was helped by as you can hardly not count as one names such as Hieronymus Bosch or our great painter Zdzisław Beksiński.

And the music here consists first of all of heavy, very dark ambient. In the album's opening track The Adjurer it's literally crushingly heavy. After that it may be lighter (as in Passion Domain) but it's not very often as we mostly deal with depressively gloomy soundscape, heavy like autumn skies. Different in every track but the most important things stay the same.

Scenes from the Sublime kosztuje 32 złote (7 EUR).

NERATERRÆ - The Substance of Perception (2019) EN

Check: The Adjurer

Country: Italy

Genre: monumental dark ambient
Label: Cyclic Law

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