Taphephobia - Blue Hour (2020) EN

Taphephobia is Ketil Søraker from Norway who creates "cinematic drone" under this moniker. For over 10 years, he managed to release several albums and the newest one, Blue Hour, at the end of August via Cyclic Law.

The album is "dedicated to the unique atmosphere of the northern landscape" and it's obviously audible from the very beginning in not so quiet drones and soundscapes. As the drone rule states: it's long, it's crushingly sad and beautiful. You feel the inspirations with the North and its barren, monumental landscapes. This legitimates the use of the cinematic: clearer and more breathtaking kind of ambient. And also one that weighs a lot, after all taphephobia is a fear of being buried alive. And then there are also unnerving, whispering vocals in Flashlights, thrilling darkness in Blå Timen, or the peaceful like the death itself finish in The Omen.

Blue Hour costs 8 EUR.

Check: Flashlights

Country: Norway

Genre: cinematic ambient
Label: Cyclic Law

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