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Artist: Bramble
Title: Emergence
Release: 06/09/2008
You wake from a fever dream suspended in darkness. Your arms, hands, fingers are heavy. You feel the weight of your fingernails pulling you down, down, down into the soft darkness echoing below you. You feel the darkness fold around you; a shroud, a chrysalis, a womb, whispering to you. It molds to your form, encapsulating you, covering you, entering you. Its gentle caress hums to you comfortingly.
You open your eyes. You see strings of darkness vibrating in tune to emptiness. A searchlight rotating from an unlocatable source catches something in its beam. Floating before you, thin, light, softly formed. With each passing of light you see more of its shape. You identify the arc of its outline, the contours of its fold. You reach for it. You stretch your arms before you and push against the darkness, pulling yourself forward. And your fingertips graze it; soft and smooth, satiny, firm and delicate. The soft fragrance of summer courtyards slips past you. You grasp it and look around you. You stand in an empty room. Car engines, slips of television and radio leak in around you. You hold the wrinkled remains of a single rose petal in your hands.
“Emergence,” the third release by Bramble, is an audio escape. Soft reverberations, gentle tones and atmospheric hums skillfully lull a listener into a subtle, mental wandering which then slowly releases them back into reality. They emerge into the light, blinking and squinting from its relative magnitude.
Cover art designed by Daniel Tuttle.
Purchase CD
Available from Bottle Imp Productions Music Store.
Tracklisting
1) Emergence (First Profundity)
2) Conjunction
3) Emergence (Second Profundity)
4) Apocrypha
5) Emergence (Third Profundity)
6) Transmutation of Base Metal
Reviews
From The Silent Ballet:
“Conjunction” is a darkly hypnotic piece, a bit of experimental drone that sounds strangely organic. The long fade out paves the way for the blast of icy air that is “Emergence (Second Profundity)”, which in turn melts into the album’s longest track, the claustrophobic “Apocrypha”. The nature of the music is enough to elicit nightmares if listened to before sleep, but with enough time actively invested in it, Emergence reveals itself to be a haunting, often emotional listen. While other artists working within this field employ warmth to their ambient works (think Loscil or Eluvium), Bramble exists instead in a darker, harsher climate. There are rare moments of calm, but overall Wehman’s take on ambient drone is glacial and shadowy, although never lacking in heart.
From Gothtronic:
Bramble’s third release is entirely created using only the human voice. Mainly the voices of Scott Wehman and Morgan Stanton. The ambient drones that are created this way are oppressing, hypnotizing, breath-taking and at the same time reassuring and calming. This release with six tracks from this project out of Toledo, Ohio suprisingly shows what a wide range of music and tones can be made using only the human voice. Especially the lengthier tracks like ‘Conjunction’ and ‘Apocrypha’ are well-performed and know how to keep being entertaining and interesting with their long spun-out tones.
A well-done and refreshing ambient drone release. A recommendation for fans of VidnaObmana, Biosphere, Kammarheit, The [Law-Rah] Collective and Klaus Schulze.
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