Olion — Nieznane

Nieznane is a thirty-two-minute example of brooding layered and darkly churning ANW from Olion, who is seemingly a recently started Polish walled noise project.  The release appears as a digital download on Polish label Gates Of Hypos- which are presenting one of the more active labels releasing wall material.

The releases cover is a murky colleage like picture- where you can’t clearly define what’s it’s made out of, which of course is primed perfectly for the grimly hazed wall matter with-in. If you’d like to check out the release for yourself- head here.

Olion is a project from Olsztyn in northern Poland- and going from the projects Bandcamp, it seems they started in February of this year- with to date four digital releases to its name and judging by the releases covers all of their work is of a fairly murky and grim quality.

Nieznane is the Polish word for Unknown and featured here is a single 32.25 track. The ‘wall’ is built around a mixture of muffled buffeting, subtle jittering static grit, and this distant sort of seesawing mid to high pitched swinging texture. These elements are fed together in a fairly even and balanced manner- with each texture having a good balance between definition and mood- with one’s mind constantly trying to fully clarify the exact details and shapes of the noise patterns. The whole ‘wall’ has a decidedly unease, and at points, subtle creep feel about it. And visually I’m getting images of walking through a dusk forest in the wintertime, as steady and chilled wind batters, with slight spit’s and spats of freezing rain in- and you are sure you can make out flitting shadows forms darting between the bone-white tree trunks. The ‘wall’ remains appealing and entrancing throughout, and I must say as a release from some who’s new to the scene- this is most impressive.

Nieznane is a prime example of darkly hued ANW- possessing a good/ even balance of creepy atmospherics and mysterious layer detail. I will certainly be checking out more of Olion back catalogue, and look forward to seeing how the project develops.