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Seküencias de
culto webzine / Spain
(F.
Paco González) 2001
"I
was highly impressed since the very first time I listened to
"Nordland". One thing that really attracted me was its variety
of sounds and music concept, many ways to obtain a single and proper style
that can be only called APOPTOSE. The coldness and darkness of many pieces
can be connected and united with the ardent drumming , while a fresh air
and smell are also derived from many of its parts. Apoptose have managed
to build an album that reveals a new hope in the ambient scene. But to
classify this as simply ambient is a terrible error, the different styles
and elements made as one is the best attribute of this CD. Many roads to
achieve a single path that is all in one, getting a sound that is full of
solitude and beauty. From the beginning we can appreciate a track like
"Unter Bewusstsein" with charged atmospheres and pounding
percussions, ending in a wide soundscape that could be eternally played,
as eternal is the impression it gives. We arrive to "Abschied von der
Sonne", grey sounds while the sun is starting to hide in the immense
horizon, this immensity is revealed during the large ambient compositions
and the excellent mixing of melodies, together with the appearing and
disappearing of the ritual drums, which get a more martial side towards
the end. A more mysterious style is represented in "Nordlicht",
the track speaks for itself, an electronic ambient piece of calming and
reflective effect, while the "light from the north" is shown in
contrast under a dismal sound of fine melodies and sequences. The great
artwork can be a clue to understand the general concept where we also have
compositions like "Nidstang", with a more intense whole of
nearly "orchestral" style, but led again to the abrupt mountains
of sounds composed by different and well mixed types of melodies backed by
programming and firm rhythms. I can not forget the following track,
"Horizont", one of the best and one of the more perfectly
adapted to the own style achieved by the composer, new forms of mysterious
atmospheres this time enforced by powerful martial
drumming, all resulting in a highly evocative piece. Towards the
end we look inside the abyss of "Sturmnacht", although focused
on different manners as nearly industrial effects and electronic ambient
sounds it does not lose the concept brought back on previous tracks. To
end this masterpiece we must arrive at "Erntewôd", the most,
lets say, experimental composition with repetitive sequences full of an
hypnotic ambient effect. The highly important visual part of this
elegantly designed digi-pack has been the graphic work of Polygon, a
project that together with Apoptose and two other ones, Ambit and Mist,
will release soon a collaboration album under the name of Solaris, a
limited to 535 copies soundtrack CD to the book of the same name by
Stanislaw Lem. Meanwhile give a listening to one of the best albums of the
year and if we unite industrial, ambient, dark, ritual and martial, this
is the one of the best examples of those adjectives but, at the same time,
being exactly none and all of them, but a proper and specially conceived
style. More than recommended."
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