Copyright © 1995 N D
1. Phlogiston
2. Desiderium
3. Myein
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Slow and vibrating key strokes, piece together these extremely drony
landscapes, shaped by ambient masters Maeror Tri - now hailed as cult
legends within the genre.
Starting with a dark layer, used effeciently by trying to improvise the
sound of a long guitar string that's constantly pulled, which deeper into
the music gets accompanied by several extended key tones that overlap their
forerunner. Like diving into an unexpected void of emptiness, the music
becomes more intense, more drony, the longer it goes on.
At a certain point, strange sounds start to appear as rythmic inducers,
hypnotizing the mind into a state of total esoteric mind exploration. What
follows, is an openedness into soundscapes totally unknown. The monotone and
persistent vibrating tone in the background becomes the basic structure,
where disorted and dissonant noises become determinators of where each song
is heading.
Almost like living inside an airdrum, these noises eventually build up into
an intense tribal dance and become harmonies of beautiful melodies, similar
to the music of Autechre or Beherit's later ambient works. While this is a
welcome experience, Maeror Tri proves its undeniable brilliance in art, when
the second opus of this album begins. A calm ambient key stroke is put as
basic layer, while on top of this, a highly emotional and almost epic
vibrating drony key stroke begins its journey. It may be compared to a leaf
slowly flapping in the wind, or streamlined thoughts colliding between two
lonely individuals in a room of emptiness.
Maeror Tri uses the notion of singularity to enhance and provoke awe and
love to what they wish to present; around these gently droning soundscapes
exist nothing, and as such, "Myein" is well balanced and easily projected
into the mind of he or she, who wishes peace, but peace found within
brainstorms of thoughts, memories and old wisdom. Certain points of these
drawn-out keystrokes want to become enhanced by the listener, as found in
the way the music is built up: harmonies range from dark and low, to
relatively high - and when the key note has reached its peak - it brings
forth a gentle resounding. Profound is the one and only word to use here.
After having built up a general mood of unknown epic and strange but
emotional feeling, the almost fifty-minute oeuvre begins. Hardly expected,
it starts with a myriad of melancholic and deranged noises, like twisted
illusions of a dream never before experienced. A slow, dark, eerie ambiental
texture lies beneath, sometimes interfering with the process of compressing
massive amounts of energy into a limited space ("expression"), other times
relying completely on the roar, and from there going back to its original
state. Here we find the basic technique of "Myein"; its way of letting
different drony keynotes interact as a roleplay between the dark, the high,
the noisy and the disturbingly clear.
Unsettling, this listening experience suddenly lose its rushy atmosphere and
instead continue forward through its basic dark key note, putting all focus
on itself. Although it for a while stands on its own, it quickly becomes
acquainted by overlapping synth-layers that sound like processed guitars,
until all of the harmonies heard, transpire into an expression of the
organic and wordly: suddenly it is All. Twisted and dissonant, these
drone-driven sounds eventually imitates that of an electronic flute player
beyond space and time. Maeror Tri uses this function to its advantage: it
removes all outside contact with reality, and instead build up a whole new
one, only to tear it down and replace it with singularity - somethingness
surrounded with nothingness.
Further into this unimaginable journey, the ambient layers suddenly stop
their diverging evolution and instead become two single key drones,
affecting one another by what feels like ritualistic and evergrowing
knowledge of something left far behind. The music therefore becomes more
reflective, more certain of a way than before was either total chaos or
total emptiness. Surprisingly, this journey is concluded by a cold and
desolate key tone, opposed to the warm and gentle breeze of different
harmonies experienced before.
It is not without reason, that works by this trio of German dronists have
become intensely sought-after by virtually all serious ambient-lovers; their
music is affectionate, careless, desolate, warm, epic, timeless, droning,
disturbing - all compressed into a a single unit. While it in many ways is
fit for the esoteric mind, and in most ways is too far out for most
mainstream ambientists, "Myein" reflects the internal mechanisms of
Universe; different opposites fulfilling eachother by co-working and
creating a relevant whole. Like no other ambient artist, Maeror Tri succeeds
in pulling the listener deeper and deeper down until it becomes suffocated
by its visions - only to discover a new world beyond the subtle ways of
watching the surface, but never touching the internal and unexplored. As
such, "Myein" is a daring journey into what the inside can create by itself
as single influence. Truly a masterpiece.
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