Elegi — Sistereis

Sistereis carves out an atmosphere that evokes ill fated ocean bound trips, faded photos of long dead loved ones pulled from sea salt depths, and eerier ghost ships cutting their way across dusk purpled skies. It mixes together slow dieing beautiful piano textures, sinister jazzy touches, doomy sea salt bass rumbles and sun bleached modern classical tones.  All under washed by creaking, cull call and all maner of eerier noise matter.

Despotiets Vesen opens the album in fine eerier dead-body-floating form, mixing together haunted and pretty melancholy piano folds with creaking, footsteps and creepy organic sound fare, coming off like some of Ulver’s piano led soundtrack work. Later on Fyrtärnet Part 2 ushers us on board the deck of a corpse strewn creaking fishing boat, birds pick out there sky set eyes, crabs scuttling in their lulling mouths, and you can hear distant laughter and lost hope screams from down bellow. The whole album does evoke such potent and often dead bound feelings, even the sunniest day seems some how surreally sinister and washed out as this plays out its life.

 
An excellent boat full of gloomy sea bound dread, which mangers to be varied and very competent, especially when you take in to account this is the project first release.