abasio Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 Spielerei & Mantacoup Cold War Silentes July 2007 Tracklist 1 Where It All Ends (8:42) 2 Cuba Crisis (4:18) 3 Pigs Bay (5:14) 4 Meanwhile In Moscow (6:12) 5 Entering The Nuclear Zone (7:20) 6 Between Hope And Fear (9:40) 7 After The Shockwave (12:28) This was a surprise. From a shipment I got of experimental ambient CDs to get such a deep, cold, dark album with the energy to be played as interesting background music but also to be enthralling when focussed upon. It's cold, dark & bleak music but has enough to make it not just for fans of Dark Ambient. 1. Where It All Ends Starts with big atmospheric drones rushing down & a vocal from a NASA spy program or something similar. A soft dark paranoid atmosphere barely lightened by the wet pads. The whispered samples sound like they should be loud & they reek with importance. A very nice trick putting something so important right in the background. The beats come in & drive you attention in a positive way but always underlying is the dark coldness of the bleakness of life. 2. Cuba Crisis More samples from a paranoid America really set a dark depressed atmosphere. The wave like synths early on suggest an island and the heavy beats through out suggest an industrial city. Industrial ambient cut of from the rest of the world by a cold ocean. Could this represent the nuclear industry in Cuba or just America's paranoia to that effect, the music suggest the latter. 3. Pigs Bay A soft but military intro, tiny marching beats & a missable cold war spiel. Russian samples sound intriguing as I have no idea what is being said. The beats an d the melody are conflicting, harshness & softness. The harsh beats take the soft melody & toughen it up like a new recruit & turn it into some twisted fucked up shit that annoys everybody. thankfully it's killed off quickly! 4. Meanwhile In Moscow They have some anarchistic people but they are quickly brought into line. The disorderly elements are given a dressing down & we end up with a more minimal, more effective streamlined power. The first noticeable baseline (bloody brilliant one at that) gives this a righteous edge that previous tracks lacked. With an industrial sound more powerful than the previous ones managed. 5. Entering The Nuclear Zone A cold desolate place, the wind is all we hear. The sound of lost industrial terror with dark ruined objects being carried here and there on the nuclear wind. As the wind picks up so does the amount of debris carried on it. It brings a slight melody but is it clean or toxic? The speed at which it breaks down suggest it is nuclear waste so a high influx is quite welcome. 6. Between Hope & Fear An irregular beat & an irregular melody from the darkness both sound like hopeless hope from an uncertain future. This track oozes dark, bleak despair but offers hope at every turn. Of each turn of hope though, fear & despair grab at my boot heels & try to pull me down. The beats pull down, the piano pulls down, the drone pulls down & there is no hope left, only fear until out of nowhere comes our saviour. A melody almost lost in the sea of negativity but bright & sharp enough to push up with new life. An acorn sprouts from the earth & tries to grow, just to chopped down by a nuclear fallout, never to stand tall! 7. After The Shockwave Something is trying to grow in the wasteland. Something from nothing but still the nuclear wind tries to destroy everything that might be. Can anything prevail after the nuclear winter has descended? Still, something wants to grow but it's not organic. Industrial growth is all that prevails & it needs no organic help. The nuclear winds have stripped the earth of it's weak organisms & left it with only machines that have a strong desire to survive. They picked up on our final wishes, our desire to continue our life no matter the cost. But with no human life left it's up to our technology to survive, rebuild, evolve & fight each other. A cold dead world alive with nothing but the shadow of mankind. This is all that is left after mankind's need to protect itself. This album is about the cold war but the message is not about the official dates of the cold war. The first half sounds like what has already taken place & what is happening now but the latter half sounds like the future of our planet should we let our (cold) wars to continue. It's a dark, bleak album with a lot of soul. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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