It is this process which the sixth Arktau Eos album attempts to convey: led by abyssal psalmody, the sonic tapestry is interwoven with dusty, crackling electronics of a bygone era and other, subtler elements for an all-enveloping sound that readily lends itself to prolonged listening sessions. We are a nameless grave from which the self divine may rise to witness new constellations light up on the darkening firmament. We are a labyrinth unto ourselves and equally we stand as a totem-pole at the crossroads of a universe, gazing into distant horizons.
"Every man is a catacomb resonator our very being resounds with hidden desires, dreams of unknown origin, and deeper still, primordial voices of our buried ancestry. Housed in a six-panel digipak with die-cut slipcase.ĬD comes enclosed in a customized, screen-printed cardboard cover Our sincere thanks to everyone involved." "Ioh-Maera is a part of a greater collaboration utilising several mediums and culminating in October 2012 at a special performance in Bucharest, Romania.Īrktau Eos welcome I. Recorded between Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice 2012 in Katajan Kaiku Laboratory and various outdoor locations near Oulu, Finland.Īdditional bone horns on track 1 recorded inside West Kennet Long Barrow, Wiltshire, U.K.Įnochian cantation on track 1 recorded at Hypercube Temple, Sydney, Australia. Manufactured For – Ground Fault Recordings Presentation wise Catacomb Resonator has been issued on both CD with screen printed foldout 7”ep sized cover, and on LP in two colour variations for the screen printed sleeve.Style: Dark Ambient, Tribal, Experimental While for me Catacomb Resonator does not surpass either of those releases, this says more of its deviating approach than any sort of lack of quality, as regardless of my personal preferences all Arktau Eos releases to date have been of excellent quality (this included). Likewise given the meditative and catatonic pacing of the track, it is very much a dark and minimalist sound you have to immerse yourself in to get the most out of it.įor me personally, I already have established favorite releases from the group which includes Mirrorion, as well as the sprawling double album Ai Ma Ra. Vocally speaking the chants do not appear to be articulating specific words or lyrics, and given the applied sonic treatments they resemble a drone ambient element. Those vocal elements are then counterpointed by spartan synth elements which follows the same cyclic rise/ fall pattern. The use of word ‘catacomb’ within the title perhaps gives an immediate clue to the tonal depth and sonic reverb employed, which allows low deep chants to rise from the depth to central prominence, to then cyclically fall away only to rise and build again. As I understand it, this album is a predominantly a vocal based work, where this both provides the focus and source material which has been subject of additional treatment and coupled with a minimalist backing of electronics (‘archaic bells’ are also noted on the cover as a sound input, but these are not individually detectable). Yet that established approach has been forgone on Catacomb Resonator, given it has opted for a sprawling drone and vocal chant oriented framework.
Now after a 5 years absence Arktau Eos have returned with new material and again issued via Aural Hypnox, and although Catacomb Resonator is billed as the new ‘album’, in reality it features only a single track of 37 minutes in length.Īlthough all projects on the Aural Hypnox label can be broadly slotted under the ritual/drone/dark ambient categories, in the past Arktau Eos have displayed a greater degree of musicality and instrumentation than other roster artists, which on early albums made compositions feels to be more akin ‘songs’ than sonic ‘movements’. Arktau Eos – Catacomb Resonator CD Aural Hypnox 2017īy way of background, the Finnish duo of Arktau Eos released their first three albums via Aural Hypnox label between 20, while the fourth and fifth albums were then simultaneously issued on Svart Records in 2012.
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