Amon

Tip! Twenty years after its initial release, Amon's "El Khela" still shines out like a pillar in the dark ambient field. Mysterious, catacombal, bleak, monumental, cryptic ambience. This new edition contains a remastered, repackaged and graphically renewed version of the original album + a second CD with rare, unreleased and reworked tracks. Coproduced by Eibon Records and Silentes, "El Khela Al'Akhdar" comes in digisleeve + 2 inner sleeves.

"This album from Amon (Andrea Marutti) is a particular occasion to invest dark-moving drone textures within a rather detachedd-disembodied splendour: we are not haunted by a hell-ish, apocalyptical electronic “droning” symphony (Lustmord) or “intoxicated” by tumultuous, neurotic sounds (Maurizio Bianchi). The ambience is archeological, exploring the strates of time in antical places. Consequently the dronescapes are developed as sonorous, immersive, low frequencies with lot of reverbs, echoes, driving windy silences. It's a kind of moody meditation with a total absence of melodies, only built on fundamental, static and veiled electronic sentences. This work is honest, well composed and imaginative but it definitely should be listened with a high quality sound installation (in order to appreciate the momentary micro-changes hidden behind massive droning spheres). It can easily ravish fans of Bernhard Günter, Thomas Köner and those who dream in the heavenly cathedrals of drones." - Philippe Blache