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BLOOD BOX  Funeral In An Empty Room  CD   (Loki Foundation)   14.98
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For the first time in seven years, Yen Pox member Michael Hensley returns with a new album from his solo dark ambient outfit Blood Box, traveling through a stygian realm that falls somewhere between the dark kosmiche drift of 70s void-explorers like Tangerine Dream and Vangelis, and the abyssal depths of Yen Pox and Lustmord. I've been looking forward to more music from Yen Pox after the fantastic reissue of Blood Music that came out on Malignant last year, but since that could be a long time coming, it's good enough to be able to sink into the more spectral, shadowy ambience of Funeral In An Empty Room . The album's magnificent dark ambience range from massive kosimiche soundscapes formed from washes of billowing twilight synth drone flecked with harp-like reverberations and synthetic strings and swells of lush chordal shimmer and hissing cymbals, to immense Vangelis-like orchestrations that are reminiscent of his Blade Runner score bathed in more layers of shadow and dread (such as on "The Celestial Abyss") with electronic horns bleeding through black clouds of abyssal hum and oceanic drift. These eight tracks are constantly moving, flowing cloudscapes of dark drift under laid with subtle layering of crackling, scorched texture, rattling percussive sounds and menacing electronic noises, ranging to more fearsome symphonies of roaring synthesizer chaos ("Battles Beneath The Earth"). It's the recognizable 70's analogue feel to these synth sounds that make this stand out, though, bathing Blood Box's claustrophobic darkness in a warm psychedelic glow.


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