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Objekt4, Her Face Among the Shadows (Ravenheart)

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Rendered in two burst of creativity in 2004 and 2006, as soon as the Her Face Among the Shadows starts, we enter into a laboratory of Frankensteinian proportions, right out of some 1930s horror film from Universal Studios. All around us, vials bubble and machinery clanks as weird experiments in sound are conducted.

Swedish artist Objekt4 makes a variant of industrial ambient music that is dusty and rusty and run-down as soon as it is recorded. His off-kilter rhythmic tracks alternate with moodier, beatless ambient of a Lustmordian nature. Furthermore, the music seems to drift in and out of range, at times fading into near nothingness before emerging from the shadows again.

It is very much a dramatic, eight-act (eight track) Gothic play or the aural counterpart to a grainy, darkly romantic two-reeler from the silent era. The female face wreathed in shadow may well be that of Elsa Lanchester“s "Bride of Frankenstein".

A delectably gloomy record.

http://www.objekt4.com

Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 10:13, 06 Sep 2006