Dirk Serries — 250804

Here’s the latest in the series of ambient guitar ‘n’ pedal created albums from Dirk Serries. It takes in two around twenty-minute works- each track has its own tone/ feel, with an almost low-key Yin/ Yang emotional quality to the whole thing.

Cover artwork for this release is a monochrome photo of a seaside tide out full of barren rocks, stones, and a concrete walkway. The album can be found here

Mr Serries will need little or no introduction, as since the early 90s, he’s been a key figure in the euro ambient/experimental scene- releasing many of his great works under the banner of  Vidna Obmana.

First up, we have “The Fragments Of Being” which rolls in at the twenty-minute and forty-six-second mark.  The track is built around layers of light simmer & subtle ebb- bringing together sweeping mids, gentle hovering lows, and warming highs.  The whole thing has a decidedly golden and warming quality about it.  I’m getting images of someone slowly walking up a range of small cloud-like staircases, up and up into the shimmering & lushly all-enveloping warmth.

The other track here is “A Possible Reality” which comes in at the seventeen-minute and seventeen-second mark. This feels track a lot more forlorn/  grey than the first track, with a distinct air of regret present.  It’s built around a blend of slowly churning ’n’ hovering lows, and gentle billowing mids. Where the first track seemed to be climbing up into the golden warmth, this feels like watching a sad, hunched-shoulder figure walk down a slowly weaving path that seems to disappear off into grey & limp fog. There is an almost gloomily baying and slowly wailing shoegaze feel to the track, though of course, in a more ambient setting

In finishing 250804 is another consistent and emotionally engaging journey into ambience from Mr Serries. I believe you can either download these releases separately or sign up for the Streams Of Consciousness series, so you receive a new one as/ when they come out