Sylvgheist Maëlström
Born in 1999, the Sylvgheist Maëlström concept takes shape in Sweden where … Read Full Bio ↴Born in 1999, the Sylvgheist Maëlström concept takes shape in Sweden where natural immensity is everywhere, colossal, dominant. Sylvgheist Maëlstrom - literally "ghostly spirit of nature" - is the sound translation of the uncontrollable movement of the environment taking back its rights over civilization. Nature regulates itself, without regard for the humans roaming its lands.
After a first opus, Lahar, introspective and minimalist, which received excellent press reviews (Noise, Elegy etc), Sylvgheist Maëlström delivers with Skaftafell a generous and peaceful second album, based both on complex rhythms and a rare sense of the melody.
Dense and punchy, Skaftafell is a collage of elaborate rhythms where the repetition of musical motifs exists only for the purpose of bringing the listener to a state that Sylmalm calls “industrial trance”.
Continuing the sound exploration of themes dear to sylvgheist maëlström, Skaftafell is the second part of a musical triptych around the forces of nature and their complex relationships with human life. Where Lahar explored the violence of natural disasters on the civilizations that are its victims, this new album - which takes its name from a huge glacial expanse located in the south of Iceland - is envisioned as the sound image of a nature free from humans, the sound of this Icelandic glacier in perpetual motion. It also announces the third and last part of the triptych (to be published in 2013), whose central theme will be the destruction of nature by humans ...
If Skaftafell wants to be the element of a larger realization started with Lahar, it is above all a work of remarkable artistic coherence, which benefits from a particularly solid production, and from the sensitive and poetic artwork of Mathieu. Orioli
After a first opus, Lahar, introspective and minimalist, which received excellent press reviews (Noise, Elegy etc), Sylvgheist Maëlström delivers with Skaftafell a generous and peaceful second album, based both on complex rhythms and a rare sense of the melody.
Dense and punchy, Skaftafell is a collage of elaborate rhythms where the repetition of musical motifs exists only for the purpose of bringing the listener to a state that Sylmalm calls “industrial trance”.
Continuing the sound exploration of themes dear to sylvgheist maëlström, Skaftafell is the second part of a musical triptych around the forces of nature and their complex relationships with human life. Where Lahar explored the violence of natural disasters on the civilizations that are its victims, this new album - which takes its name from a huge glacial expanse located in the south of Iceland - is envisioned as the sound image of a nature free from humans, the sound of this Icelandic glacier in perpetual motion. It also announces the third and last part of the triptych (to be published in 2013), whose central theme will be the destruction of nature by humans ...
If Skaftafell wants to be the element of a larger realization started with Lahar, it is above all a work of remarkable artistic coherence, which benefits from a particularly solid production, and from the sensitive and poetic artwork of Mathieu. Orioli
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