DIAMONDSTEIN / SANGAM : LULLABIES FOR BROKEN SPIRITS [Doom Trip]
€20.00
Catalogue : Doom Trip Records / DTR11
Format : Cassette, Album
Condition : New
Country : US
Released : 2017
Genre : Electronic, Ambient, Minimal
For the last year or so, L.A.’s Doom Trip Records has quietly been releasing a string of excellent records exploring the fascinating far reaches of electronic music. Their latest, a split LP from Diamondstein and Sangam, is no different. The two artists are perfectly paired: Diamondstein’s compositions are steady and haunting and marked by an occasional sense of anxiety. The dizzying, 11-minute “The Praise Chorus” begins with a soft, twinkling synth, but gradually builds and swells until it feels shot through with a sense of foreboding. Bells toll, funereal organs shatter the tranquility, and the whole song feels like it’s announcing the slow arrival of some dark phantom. Sangam’s songs are more sedate. “Knowing Loss” threads the sound of humming traffic and distant voices through gently-exhaling electronics, and the synths on “This Pain Feels the Same” barely register—far-off ripples of sound that buckle and expand like the Northern Lights. The pair collaborate on two tracks, the opening “I Wish I Had More to Offer” and closing “Evenings Fly By”; the former is tense and twitching, the latter an exercise in graceful melancholy. Like all of the songs on Lullabies For Broken Spirits, they are as moody and serene as they are utterly mesmerizing.
Format : Cassette, Album
Condition : New
Country : US
Released : 2017
Genre : Electronic, Ambient, Minimal
For the last year or so, L.A.’s Doom Trip Records has quietly been releasing a string of excellent records exploring the fascinating far reaches of electronic music. Their latest, a split LP from Diamondstein and Sangam, is no different. The two artists are perfectly paired: Diamondstein’s compositions are steady and haunting and marked by an occasional sense of anxiety. The dizzying, 11-minute “The Praise Chorus” begins with a soft, twinkling synth, but gradually builds and swells until it feels shot through with a sense of foreboding. Bells toll, funereal organs shatter the tranquility, and the whole song feels like it’s announcing the slow arrival of some dark phantom. Sangam’s songs are more sedate. “Knowing Loss” threads the sound of humming traffic and distant voices through gently-exhaling electronics, and the synths on “This Pain Feels the Same” barely register—far-off ripples of sound that buckle and expand like the Northern Lights. The pair collaborate on two tracks, the opening “I Wish I Had More to Offer” and closing “Evenings Fly By”; the former is tense and twitching, the latter an exercise in graceful melancholy. Like all of the songs on Lullabies For Broken Spirits, they are as moody and serene as they are utterly mesmerizing.