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Artist:
EINOMA
Title:
Milli Tonverka
Label:
VERTICAL FORM (UK)
Format:
CD
Price:
$16.00
Catalog #:
VFORM 031CD
"Surely the next major Icelandic phenomenon to follow Björk and Sigur Rós into global affections, Reykjavik's Einoma (the alias of Erstwhile film-makers and producers Steindar & Bjarnar) make uncompromising, bleakly beautiful music that, try as you might to avoid the clichéd stereotype, can't help but conjure their island home's austere, tectonic majesty. If 2002's
Undir Feilnotum
(Vertical Form) debut, announced Einoma's severe splendor with jaw-dropping audacity, then
Milli Tonverka
('music that lies between' is the rough translation), goes one better, expanding the palette to include echoes of Coil's dystopian grind here, Brian Eno's most exotic ambient tone poems there, though always retaining something uniquely, ineffably Icelandic at its core.
Milli Tonverka's
is an album of uncompromising highlights. There's the almost jaunty motorik undertow of 'Khanin' for example, overlaid with gorgeous, alpine keyboards that suddenly cede to stark caverns of crunching, tactile electronics -- IDM recast as the colossal friction of shifting glaciers, essentially. Then there are the wondrous symphonic shadings that flutter in the margins of 'Ur Afongum's' otherwise pulverizing rhythmic assault, or the contrastingly lush ambient tone baths of 'Eindir. Liour Og Laeoist', meanwhile, interlaces subtle violin and Hildigunnur Einarsdottir fabulously ethereal vocals over a shape-shifting rhythmic drone that sounds, well, like a volcano that's about to blow, frankly."
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