A Soundscape Playlist to the Abyss of Fragmented Dreams and Crippled Emotions
“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” Edgar Allan Poe
We begin our short melancholic journey into the suspended abyss with the delicate, 2009 acoustic “Land of Silence and Darkness” by Claudio Alcara’s project STROSZEK, taken from “Wild Years of Remorse and Failures“ (2013). Next we have the four-piece instrumental Michigan band, ROOTS AND RUINS, with “Future Haunts” from their 2018 post-rock/metal effort, “Die Right”. Suspended between light and darkness we find “Crying on Land” by UK’s shoegazers PYLO, from their 2013 EP “Bellavue”. WAY STATION is an interchange place between the reality and hidden dreams of the deep mind. The Ukrainian dark ambient duo contributing “Clouds Dropped Down”, from “The Way of Minstrel” album, released earlier this year. Also from 2018 is “A Whisper in the Hurricane” from the EP “It’s Time for a Change” by the alternative rockers NUCLEAR WINTER, hailing from Madrid, Spain. The soundscape continues with KENOMA’s doomy “Sleeping Prophet” from their incredible “The Tides Will Prevail” album released in the spring of 2017. Summing up our immersion in the abyss of fragmented dreams and crippled emotion, is no other than Tribulation’s lead guitarist and songwriter, Jonathan Hultén, with the soft folk piece “Leaving” from his acoustic 2017 EP “The Dark Night of the Soul”. Enjoy the music!
© 2018 by Emil Chiru