Rudolf Eb.er — Om Kult: Ritual Practice of Conscious Dying - Vol.
The album unbalances you from it’s very beginning with the first track "Induktions Meditation" that sees a blend of hissing tape drone, sustained & unwell siren wave buzz, and distant rushing water sounds- you feel as if at any second something very strange is going to dart out at you, but it never does- with Eb.er just hold you tight in the alien & uneasy sonic tension.
As we move through the remaining twenty-nine tracks- he keeps you held in this odd, murky, and terminally unwell sonic landscape- moving from mixers of strange scraps, distant hovering pitch sustains, and distant textural weaves. Onto more forceful & fear-inducing blends of higher pitched siren wave drillings, that around surrounded by maps of wet & crunching textures. Through to odd & almost inhuman breathing patterns, that are blended with stripped-back wood percussion hits, pitch sliding psycho ambience, twitching alien percussion & distant animal wails. It safe to say that over the albums just over an hour & five minutes runtime, you never feel conformable, but you certainly are entertained & terminal creeped-out, as each new track offers up its own new strange tones, weird textural blends, and the generally feeling of murky alien-ness.
I can see Om Kult : Ritual Practice of Conscious Dying - Vol. I appeal to both fans of wonky ambience, bizarre field recordings, and strange textural adventures. As there is no doubt about it with this release Rudolf Eb.er has created a very tangible sonic landscape of unsettlement- really making one feel like their either lost in a strange other reality or on some drowsy surreal & unwell planet. Here’s looking forward to vol 2 , of this predicted three release series.