Top Bar
Musique Machine Logo Home ButtonReviews ButtonArticles ButtonBand Specials ButtonAbout Us Button
SearchGo Down
Search for  
With search mode in section(s)
And sort the results by
show articles written by  
 Review archive:  # a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

Thelema - Eldur Og Is [Ahnstern/steinklang - 2007]

Eldur Og Is offers up an audio/musical trip through Iceland’s ragged beauty, old gods and mystery.  It’s  the solo Project of Sturmpercht member Hajü & it certainly  weaves a very varied musical canvas going doom/post rock, dark ambience, neo folk drone to  80’s synth soundtrack  music. With deep ancient  vocal chanting/ singing by the Icelandic singer Steindor Andersen appearing ever so often.

It’s packaged in a wonderful plush 7”   full  colour 16 page booklet featuring pictures of Iceland beautiful landscape. There’s little of Sturmpercht  alpine folk traces here, one track briefly slips into  happy-go-luck accordion pump, but for the most part this is moody and evocative soundtrack music. It aptly mangers to paint varying musical and atmospheric air, though it does hover more in the darker, ancient and unknown  air. The three  longer tracks tend more towards streached out drone/electronics soundworlds  with traces of guitar and envoirmetal elements, having quite a mean and moody air about them. Where the remaining four shorter tracks are more playful and often quite cheesy with their uses retro keyboards and disco like electronics.

An odd mix of darker atmospherics and quirkiness that somehow mangers to balance the two very convincingly and managers to be rewarding on many levels.

Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5

Roger Batty
Latest Reviews

Thelema - Eldur Og Is
Eldur Og Is offers up an audio/musical trip through Iceland’s ragged beauty, old gods and mystery.  It’s  the solo Project of Sturmpercht member Ha...
260424   Marco Baldini/Apartment House...
250424   Intruder - Psycho Savant
250424   Hot Spur - Hot Spur( Blu Ray)
250424   Happy End - Happy End( Blu Ray)
250424   Electronicat - Saturation
240424   Soma - Me Dais Mucho Asco
240424   Koobaatoo Asparagus - Onna-musha
240424   Magda - And Suddenly, Just L...
230424   Andrea Taeggi - Nattdett
230424   Seedpeople - SeedPeople(Blu Ray)
Latest Articles

The Music of Clay Ruby & Burial H...
Over the last couple of decades Wisconsin native, Clay Ruby has been creating some of the world’s finest dark electronic music under the Burial Hex mon...
280324   The Music of Clay Ruby & Buri...
290224   Sutcliffe No More - Normal Ev...
100124   Occlusion - The Operation Is...
181223   Best Of 2023 - Music, Sound &...
051223   Powerhouse Films - Of Magic, ...
181023   IO - Of Sound, Of Art, Of Exp...
210923   Lucky Cerruti - Of Not so Fri...
290823   The Residents - The Trouble W...
110723   Yotzeret Sheydim Interview - ...
250523   TenHornedBeast - Into The Dee...
Go Up
(c) Musique Machine 2001 -2023. Twenty two years of true independence!! Mail Us at questions=at=musiquemachine=dot=comBottom