Released
1997

Label
Tegal Records
215 N. Market Street
Frederick, Maryland 21701 USA
FAX: 301-695-6026

Reviewed by
Daniel Marvin

Contact
Tegal Records


Last Edit/Update
10 October, 1999

Crepuscule

Music For Decay
Metamorphosis Of Life Part One

Track Listing

1. Created
2. Mother
3. Love
4. Childhood Thief
5. Apology
6. Father
7. Adolescence
8. Manhood
9. Matricide Fantasy
10. Matricide Reality

    Crepuscule is an extremely innovative and unique project in the experimental music scene today. Mutilated voices and quite odd soundstructures move around and drunken the listener in a very confused feeling of, "what the hell is going on?" For example, on the track Mother it moves from relaxed atmospherics, samples of eerie sounding childrens' toys and the whispers of people seeping in and out of the compositions to a repetitive loop which really sets the stage for events to come as the samples become more dense at the heart moving outward.
    It tells an interesting story of a "mother"'s love for her "son" going a few steps too far, where in her need to isolate him she murders his lover. He, the son, then murders his mother and in doing so murders the "life-giver." Perhaps this mother is a metaphor for a god of somesort or productive, yet obsessive force, I am not really sure. Either way, the cd is truly excellent and anyone who is into experimental-ambient music on the very edge of noise should definitely check it out.