Cephalophore's "Ghosts" is now for pre-order and is being released on the newly formed Barren Meadows Recordings label. The album title is very fitting for a album that is eerie, dark and is a trip into your deep subconscious mind. This is music that can serve as a soundtrack to your nightmares or can simply provide a relaxing hypnotic, meditating background to your deepest thoughts. As far as i know its the work of one man Hezekiah (Saint) Raven and it is certainly filled with mind - alternating sound textures, mellow for the most part but also very moving. Made up from parts rather than actual songs, the music is very much ambient, slightly industrial, experimental but the sound has a great mixture between warm sounds and bleak coldness. Best taken as a whole rather than analyzing the separate tracks, it is a album that sounds rather simple on the first listen but peel back the layers and you will find some well thought-out complex imagery contained within the sounds. That might sound like i am blabbering but this is music that requires a lot of attention and some imagination on the listener to get the vibe of the album. This will most likely appeal to people who like minimalist droning music but rather than indulging in loud extended bass/guitar humming sounds, here it is more about engaging the listener with subtle changing sounds and its great because you hear something different with every spin of the album. Drone was once described as "about as far away from music as you can get before it stops being music" and i guess that is pretty accurate but its albums like this that can take you on a little journey, where you finish up might be absolutely horrifying or absolutely beautiful. Its up to how you hear it, i found this album to be a excellent example of using sounds to create something multi-dimensional within the framework of ambient drone music, a original and moving experience. Find out more about the album here - http://barrenmeadowsrecordings.blogspot.com/2010/01/pre-order-cephalophore-ghosts-album.html or check out the Myspace site. 9/10
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