(Zoharum) 2024.
CD/Digital
Experimental/ambient/electro/doom/drone – POLAND
Noche Oscura is the project of Wojciech Szachowski, and “Gardens” is the second album, which he made together with Michal Krupa. By the way, this album was recorded in 2022 and released now.
The release features three longer songs /themes, that represent a kind of conceptual soundtrack. In his way, the author invites us to go with him through a mystical and “dark” path, a kind of spiritual search, and to plunge into the “night”, until we rediscover the essence of our personality. It is certainly a “difficult” task, which is accompanied by a very complex musical “carpet”, which consists of an also complex concentration of soundscapes of unusual arrangement solutions. In a non-standard way, musical elements of an ambient/electronic approach are intertwined with doom/drone tracks. But if you think that these are those doom/drone influences close to the metal genre, they are not, because here it is all incorporated in a rather original and specific way.
“Gardens” is a serious and complex achievement that “opens up” numerous topics, the realization of which deserves all praiseworthy epithets.
zoharum.com/en
facebook.com/nocheoscurapl
nocheoscura.bandcamp.com/album/gardens
nov 11 2024
NOCHE OSCURA – “Gardens”
(Zoharum) 2024.
CD/Digital
Experimental/ambient/electro/doom/drone – POLAND
Noche Oscura is the project of Wojciech Szachowski, and “Gardens” is the second album, which he made together with Michal Krupa. By the way, this album was recorded in 2022 and released now.
The release features three longer songs /themes, that represent a kind of conceptual soundtrack. In his way, the author invites us to go with him through a mystical and “dark” path, a kind of spiritual search, and to plunge into the “night”, until we rediscover the essence of our personality. It is certainly a “difficult” task, which is accompanied by a very complex musical “carpet”, which consists of an also complex concentration of soundscapes of unusual arrangement solutions. In a non-standard way, musical elements of an ambient/electronic approach are intertwined with doom/drone tracks. But if you think that these are those doom/drone influences close to the metal genre, they are not, because here it is all incorporated in a rather original and specific way.
“Gardens” is a serious and complex achievement that “opens up” numerous topics, the realization of which deserves all praiseworthy epithets.
zoharum.com/en
facebook.com/nocheoscurapl
nocheoscura.bandcamp.com/album/gardens
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