Released
1998
Label
Drone Records
Reviewed by
Michael C. Lund
Contact
Stefan Knappe
Drone Records
Gneisenaustrasse 56
28201 Bremen
Germany
Amon
c/o Andrea Marutti
Via Villoresi, 5
I - 20143 Milano
Italy
Last Edit/Update
22 september, 1998
Amon
AURA 7"
(first edition: 250 copies)
Track Listing
Side A
Aura Rhanes
Side B
Rhauna Ares
Imagine pressing a conch the size and depth of a seemingly bottomless cave to the ear.
This is the aural impression of Amon's music. In the two soundscapes on Aura
one can hear the turning and churning of the earth's bowels; thick, rumbling waves of
soughing, gusty sounds that crash in slow-motion like so many tides of lava. The denseness
and magnitude of the sound is of mythical proportions, and inside this subdued raging can
be heard the distant, ringing sighs of dead melodies and harmonies, travelling like
faraway signals, or ghosts, of a music that once was, but now is engulfed by the great
frightening presence of Amon's compositions.
If any musical project was ever
worthy of the predicate dark ambient, Andrea Marutti's Amon
would be it. After two CD releases on the labels Murder Release and Eibon
Records, Amon has contributed to Drone Records'
catalogue of great 7" records with Aura. As usual the first pressing is
limited to 250 numbered copies, presented in a handmade cover, and -- in stark contrast to
the dark quality of the music -- the single has been pressed on transparent clear vinyl.