fade
swathe »
lid »
tranque »
aire
Four long tracks of slow-motion, trance-inducing sound.
Gentle, distant rumblings.
Deep swells and slow simmers.
Mood musick for the space generation.
Samples & Reviews can be found here.
Available exclusively through the
Hypnos Online Store or in Canada from
PiNG THiNGS
Reviews:
"... here are a few of my thoughts. I like it! I grabbed it
intending to listen to it late at night before bed with headphones on,
and it's a nice, gentle way to drift off. The layers are soft, and the
repetition is almost mesmerizing as they pulse in and out. The music
practically breathes. My only criticism would be that the silent rests in
''Tranque'' struck me as being too long, and threw off the flowing rhythm
of the rest of the album. It's still a very nice album to dream to,
though."
— Robbie K.
"[The song ''Lid''] ...made me think [of] Steve Roach. The
swells. The bell/hornish/breathing tones. An extremely nostalgic sound
for me..."
— Chip Hart
"Sheer beauty, love every shift and turn, a masterpiece gentlemen!"
— Gordon Danis, Esq.
"Austere's "fade" —
Austere is vunderful! Fade isn't very dark at all, but sooo
beautiful ... easily my fav of theirs."
"''fade'' - Wow, this could not be more different than
"Monodia". "fade" is a suspension in warm vapor, with vague, half-realized
rhythms and melodies, somewhat comparable to Jason Sloan's more formless
tracks on "Still". Serene music for a cloudy morning. Time stands still
here — or maybe more to the point, simply doesn't matter.
"...particularly on the first track "swathe," they appear to have moved
increasingly into pure drone waters... although recgognizable keyboard
peals do creep in from time to time, most of this is a giant, wavelike
drone that will make your speakers shudder. As with their previous
efforts, the tracks flow into each other, so it's pretty much impossible
to tell where one ends and the next begins; while the tracks are all
similar in their bedrock style, they do each take on a different
character, making them more like movements in a larger whole."
"...this is closer to the minimal recordings of fellow ambient
musicians like James Johnson, A Produce (his non-rhythmic side) and
Stephen Philips. However, Austere carves out their own niche by suffusing
the music with a unique organic unforced rhythm, which is accomplished
through the almost breath-like rising and falling of the drone tones and
washes of sound. [...] Never harsh or cold, even at its darkest, the
music on fade (as with all the music from Austere I've heard) is
created by artists who understand how to infuse ambient music with deep
beauty and more humanity than you would think possible for this level of
minimalism."
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