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Five Elements Music - VarunaGhat [Mystery seas - 2008]

Though the projects name is Five Elements Music VarunaGhat deep often dark and quite tense/active ambient expanses mainly focus on one of the five elements: water. The 46 minute long release is split into 3 untitled and aquatic based tracks.

The first track bobs slowly into view with its grey murky drones dwells giving a feel akin to slowly coming round finding yourself on the floor of a vast underground cavern & you can hear in the distance the sound of running/ pouring water. As the track progresses the running, pouring and ultimate flooding water tones become more and more intense, mixed with the murky drone and creepy echoed  pitches, as if the subterranean cavern is filled up slowly, then over time filling fast and faster. A really very effective track that gives a great feeling of panic and tension building that gets to almost fever pitch towards the end of the 23 minute track.

Next up track two  which opens with a tolling and haunted type tone & then the water tones enter being a lot more active, moving and dense than the first track, rather taking centre stage over the tolling pitch. They layer up rushing, pouring and submerging aquatic tones in quite an intense and airless manner all to make a quite panicked if still haunted piece of active deep ambience. Lastly track three opens up with a deep bubbling drone/ aquatic tone giving the feeling akin to what it might feel like to drown falling over and over down and down in aquatic darkness. As the track develops an bobbing sonic pluse raises sounding almost flute like and the sound of running/ pouring water returns. Giving the feeling like you’ve found an aired space underneath the water like something off the abyss moive.

I’ve always been a sucker for wet, damp and subterranean sounds and textures with-in ambience and VarunaGhat managers to mix all of those textures to a highly haunting, effective and at times panicked whole. Without doubt one of my favourite Mystery Sea releases thus far.

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Roger Batty
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