NEPTUNE TOWERS TRANSMISSIONS FROM EMPIRE ALGOL DOWNLOAD FREE

There was a period in the mids when it seemed that every black metal musician had to have his ambient or faux-medieval project. But with the passing of time, interest in older generations of synthesisers and other electronic instruments has increased, and more musicians these days are playing them and discovering there's still a lot of potential for creativity in them. This is the second installment of what we might call the "Empire Algol" saga, which was created by Fenriz of Darkthrone, reportedly under the influence of "cold void visions" inspired by "magic mushrooms". You either like this sort of thing or simply find it boring or tedious. Abominatrix , December 3rd, I don't know what kind of equipment he used to record these albums, but I sure would love to find out. Fenriz stated in interviews that the value he saw in this project in later years was that it might succeed in interesting listenres in the early 70s work of Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream, and while I doubt he had access to the kind of gorgeous old synths and organs and tape machines that the German pioneers helped to introduce to the world, his work is almost cut out for him here.

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There's no structure and the songs don't really progress. If you're not familiar with this marvelously eclectic and often incredibly psychedelic exploratory period in ambient music, you frm trust me when I say that this is a very good thing and that it doesn't hurt at all to have more music in this vein.

Transmissions From Empire Algol

On "Transmissions from Empire Algol", Fenriz has expanded his palett to include very real and analogue-sounding organs, crazy modulating tones and almost aquatic burbles, while still playing with pitch control and some edgy twers that wash in and out like stellar waves.

Where the space journey frok next is not clear and depends on what the listener brings to this audio experience. You may not necessarily return to Earth but then after this journey, with all you have heard, learned and gained, you'll never be the same person again and in this respect you are no longer an Earthling. You will, if you enjoy such things, instantly be reminded of what Tangerine Dream was doing up until or thereabouts, and of their various compatriots in the German scene at the time.

Obviously, I like this empier a good deal more than "Caravans to Empire Algol", and will always go for "Transmissions" if I want to listen to a single Neptune Towers entity, but I find that the two albums work well in tandem, back to back, and that the frigid minimalism and endless drone of the debut form right alongside the more elaborated and vibrant successor, if you have an hour of time to kill.

NausikaDalazBlindazJanuary 16th, There's not much else to say about this. The debut was a rather monotonous if still fairly evocative affair, nsptune use of a very few effects and drones awash towres delay and a sparse variety of sound. Transmissions from Empire Algol Neptune Towers. Now, that's not a huge problem in Ambient, but it is here, because dudes like Tim Hecker and Eluvium can get away with lack of structure within a song by performing beautiful, jaw-dropping soundscapes, and that's where Neptune Towers falls really short.

New generations of music fans are discovering music once dismissed as disposable but still retaining the freshness and intensity they had it had when first released decades ago. Synth swirls and clouds, more organ tones and even more background atmospheric wash, through which sound effects swim and bass melodies wiggle, envelop listeners and carry them epmire to realms outside the immediate material dimension.

When most people think Fenriz, the words "Psychedelic Ambient" generally don't come to mind, the words "Darkthrone" and "Black Metal" generally do either that or they don't know who he is, alol sucks to be them.

There was a period in the mids when it seemed that every black metal musician had to have his ambient or faux-medieval project. This is the second installment of what we might call the "Empire Algol" saga, which was created by Fenriz of Darkthrone, reportedly under the influence of "cold void visions" inspired by "magic mushrooms".

You see, there is actually quite a bit of movement taking place in these two sections, and despite the necessarily slow shifting of such things, for this is ambient music after all and not some sort of bombastic and fruity symphonic thing, which is the sort of stuff Tangerine Dream succumbed to in the 80s, there are fragments toweers very memorable melody to be found, especially as we move closer to the latter half of the album.

Fenriz stated in interviews that the value he saw in this project in later years was that it might succeed in interesting listenres in the early 70s work of Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream, and while I doubt he had access to the kind of gorgeous old synths and organs and tape machines that the German pioneers helped to introduce to the world, his work is almost cut out for him here.

While less raw and intense, and transmussions contemplative, than "Caravans Perhaps because these recordings weren't originally intended to be more than tributes by Neptune Towers man Fenriz of Darkthrone fame to his favourite s German space-rock bands, the Empire Algol works end up possessing more endurance as works in their own right than might have been expected of them. As might be expected given the album's title, compared to "Caravans Anyway, I guess the point I'm making here is that no-one's really heard of Neptune Towers.

NEPTUNE TOWERS - Transmissions From Empire Algol CD

Whether it's the pointless, long sound fx intro of the first track, the early-video game style synths of the Cold Void Desolation, or the sheer cheesiness of many of the synths he uses, netune album falls short on many levels.

It's a shame, really, as this could've been promising, and indeed there a few promising moments, especcially in the first song, where there's just the organ going on while some empife subtle synths float around in the background, and it's genuinely pretty, and with the subtle pitch shifts going on you get the feeling that Fenriz does very much know his stuff, but that's generally not the case.

On the first track, floaty synth drones alternate with simple church organ melodies in parts, calling to mind the mysterious planet Traansmissions from the film by Andrei Tarkovsky; I haven't seen the Hollywood version which reflected in apparent physical form the unconscious desires of human visitors to that planet.

I don't know what kind of equipment he used to record these albums, but I sure would love to neptne out. Personally, I have Fenriz to thank tkwers getting me into this kind of music, and I believe that he succeeded in creating something wonderful, even after hearing how the originators managed to concoct this spacey brew ten years before I was born.

At one point toward the end of the first track this was clearly meant to be heard on vinyl, but I don't know if it was ever pressed to wax, sadly a huge-sounding organ begins to play a captivating melody and it is like the first step on an oxygenated planet that is not your own Empirf either like this sort of thing or simply find it boring or tedious.

And so these CDs have found a new life being reissued by Peaceville inwith their sonic rawness and intensity, and their bleak vision intact.

NEPTUNE TOWERS - Transmissions From Empire Algol CD

Best viewed without Internet Explorer, in x resolution or higher. Write your own review. Bands alphabetical country genre Labels alphabetical country Reviews R. You've found your place in the cosmos. Well, it's not really terrible, but unless if you're the most diehard Fenriz fan ever, algo, don't need to own this album. I had the original Moonfog CDs over 20 years ago, and to be honest I didn't really think, because the music was fairly simple in structure and had been recorded on old analog synthesisers, that they had much staying power.