Erik Skodvin’s got enough on his plate. In addition to progressing his solo Svarte Greiner project, he also runs Miasmah, the Norwegian, commonly dark ambient label that excels at creating additional excuses for your nighttime disinterest in artificial lighting. Wading in the depths so persistently requires a special kind of fortitude, which is why, perhaps, he and longtime friend/musician Otto Totland haven’t given a tremendous amount of attention to their Deaf Center project over the years. Two albums since 2005. I take the liberty of speaking for everyone when I say, isn’t it about time that we enjoy another entree of flies, freshly-baked?
Deaf Center and Berlin-based “boutique” label Sonic Pieces are doing us a larval solid, as the former have just released Recount, a 27-minute inauguration of the latter’s Pattern series. This mini-album, of sorts, was initially recorded in the years before and after the release of Owl Splinters, so you know they were in the right frame of mind. As Sonic Pieces puts it: “Recount is a bridge between full albums, where time and familiarity are mesmerizingly suspended.” Ominous beauty courtesy of impossibly airy strings tends to have that effect. Just put this on repeat until the next LP, and you won’t even have to wait:
Recount tracklisting:
01. Follow Still
02. Oblivion
• Deaf Center: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Deaf-Center/167713219947652
• Sonic Pieces: http://www.sonicpieces.com
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