Doldens veils is a cavernous journey. This Mercurial piece of music is a journey into the chamber of the mind with its use of sustained chords, hollowing resonances and drone. From cacophony to absence, its unpredictable nature and structure create a world curiosity, bombast and despair. Familiar strings sounds warp into textures of insects and bellowing winds from unknown instruments. The mood of the music is a strange place between curious and unnerving, teasing discord with atonalism to create an environment of forces at war, emerging in the dark in patches of something abstract yet familiar. Exploring the primordial nature of the chord and its ability to present its self in many forms and colours, to alert or alarm or to shadow itself in the form of another. Its hints of eastern traditional music reminded me of the importance of masks in tribal culture and their ability to communicate something mystic and not always fully understood during ceremonial ritual.
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