This is not an album, it's a phase, and there's no songs, there are levels. UNWOM is not music, UNWOM should be understood as an experience. A dark and enigmatic blend of subsonic landscapes and surrounding mystic oscillations. However, fans of bands like SUNN O))), MEGAPTERA, EARTH, MZ.412 and the likes, should find UNWOM interesting for their senses.
It took me a couple of years before I could truly appreciate it, but once I began to understand just what the drone and drone/doom genre was trying to accomplish (and got myself a decent pair of headphones) everything came together. Since that time a number of bands have impressed me, and Spain’s Unwom is one of the newer acts to do so. Created in 2005, the two man project creates haunting soundscapes that blur the line between industrial, drone, and doom. Their debut effort Phase 1: Inner Earth Dimension seems appropriately named considering many of these songs seem to be channeling what I imagine a journey into Hell would sound like. It’s definitely an acquired taste, but if you can appreciate ambient/drone this record is an incredible listen.
The best material in this genre takes you to a different world and this is what Unwom does. Their material is a bit what you would imagine journeying to Hell or the center of the Earth might sound like. Everything is very creepy and ominous, there’s some bursts of static here and there as if to suggest that you’re heading into the most desolate regions of the Earth’s core, and suddenly all hell breaks loose. As the vocals emerge, it’s as if the listener has reached the end of the road and the devil himself is speaking in some foreign, indistinguishable tongue. I know this may seem like a strange way to describe an album, but it feels wholly appropriate and if you throw on Phase 1: Inner Earth Dimension on with some high quality headphones prepare for a genuinely terrifying experience. Stylistically Unwom is channeling noise, drone, doom, ambient, and even industrial at times all into a slow paced mixture that can’t completely be categorized.
Hopefully the above description makes sense, because it’s hard to truly do justice to what feelings and emotions this album is able to create in its listeners. There are a lot of drone projects out there right now, but Unwom is one of the few that has really left a lasting impression on me and I plan to return to it over the next couple of months. Not only that, but Phase 1: Inner Earth Dimension is currently available as a free download from the artist’s website so if you’re looking for a listening experience that is both terrifying and absorbing don’t hesitate to check it out.
Dave Rotten, más concido como cantante del grupo de death metal Avulsed, nos sorprende con "Phase 1 - Inner Earth Dimension", publicado por su proyecto Unwom en el que milita junto a Vicente J. . Para empezar, esto no tiene nada que ver con death metal, ni con ningún tipo de metal o de rock - esto es dark ambient (tipo Raison d’être, Predominance, Inade u otros grupos de Cold Meat Industries o Loki Foundation, por ejemplo), lento, lleno de sonidos distorsionados y atmosféricos, mayoritariamente instrumentales, pero con algunas voces añadidas, y también profundamente oscuros... pura oscuridad hecha sonido, ideal para acompañar proyecciones de imágenes pertubadoras o simplemente una película extraña dentro de la cabeza del oyente.
A pesar de ser extremadamente pausado y tenebroso, no transmite sensaciones tan apocalípticas o de desasosiego como muchos grupos del estilo, sino más bien resulta muy relajante (aunque eso dependerá del momento en el que se escuche), y en algunos pasajes, como ocurre en "Level 1", incluye algo de melodía reminiscente de un black-doom bastante extremo. En cualquier caso, es un disco sumamente interesante y muy bien hecho dentro del género, que aporta sonidos muy curiosos y bien combinados, que por si solos no serían nada, pero juntos desarrollan mucha energía.
"Phase 1" contiene cinco cortes, de entre nueve y 15 minutos, con una duración total que supera los 50 minutos, que componen una progresión lenta, pero estructurada, de sonidos y ambientes, y cada track transmite sus propias sensaciones. Para los que no conocen este tipo de música, merece la pena "arriesgarse" a escucharlo, eso sí, mejor en casa y durante un rato tranquilo y sin nada más que hacer, y para los conocedores del dark ambient es un disco muy recomendado. Y por cierto, os lo podeis descargar de forma gratuita desde su página web: http://www.unwom.com.
¿Dónde están los límites de la música? ¿Ruido,
sonido, melodía, distorsión? ¿Música es sólo
lo que se puede situar en un pentagrama? Cada uno pone sus límites. Conozco
a muchos que buscan que la música le entre por el oído, y no es
una redundancia, simplemente quieren desconectar y no escuchar activamente tratando
de rascar más allá de la superficie. Pero también conozco
a otros muchos que son capaces de llamar arte a una pedorreta tirada con gusto.
Son dos extremos, entre los cuales, uno puede encontrar muchas opciones. No
todos los días a alguien le apetece escuchar a JOHN ZORN, THE VELVET
UNDERGROUND o para llegar más lejos, al grandísimo JOHN CAGE,
grupos, músicos, compositores y artistas que saben (el pobre Cage sabía...)
que la “música” da mucho de sí, que es un todo donde el ruido
y el silencio sirven para evocar, y es en el fondo de lo que se trata, de hacer
reaccionar al oyente, ya sea con sonidos fáciles de aprehender o con
tortuosos caminos que no siempre tienen buen final.
Quiero pensar que es un experimento inicial de unos grandes musicos de la escena extrema española (Dave Rotten y Vicente J.); que en el futuro nos depararan cosas mucho más interesantes.
Es como una versión noise del soundtrack del videogame Quake o algo asi.
Puede ser descargado completamente gratis y con una calidad de 192 Kbps desde el sitio oficial de la banda.
Drone that contains the magnitude of an earthquake. This is what I would hear and feel if I was in the midst of a high-end Richter scale dominator. Even non-fans of the genre would like this one. It has a lot of experimental parts and even includes vocals at parts. Try to hunt it down if you can.
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