African Ghost Valley – AAM

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AFRICAN GHOST VALLEY

IS THE WORK OF TWO HEAVIES,

IN THE DARK ARTS OF

DEEP DRONING SOUNDSCAPES.

The sonics on AAM are so thick you are immediately engulfed into a fully formed world. An unmistakable scent of acrid sulphur, oppressive heat, and sandy air; a raw primitive planet.

Noises crackle and spark along the planetary surface, portend low-pitched thuds and cracks, as cavities appear to pock the terrain . A land in constant flux; a call and response of formation and destruction, physically flipping a subterranean world inside out.

This duo who have forged a distinct sound, by harnessing invisible forces, (magnetism, electricity, gravity, etc.). Wielding energy to create a throbbing pressure before releasing oscillations, felt on a cellular level. These hardware explorations, hone vibrations like sonar, mapping a spacious environment that you are free to explore.

Album Review

Mangling our preconceived distinctions 'twixt beat and texture, texture and drone, drone and loop, loop and beat, AGV kick up some modular dust and glue that flurry of gyrating particles all back together to form spacious, lofty soundscapes for us all to wade on through, in hazy dream time.

Whether or not that crackle was organically harvested or digitally contrived isn’t something to discern anytime soon cz all the other sonic posits keep pouring over us in arhythmic & fleeting patterns at critically timed paces.

Yeah, it’s heady, disorienting, and all around pretty fucking great!
- Jacob An Kittenplan
Cassette Gods
APRIL 16, 2020