Bleach Dye Yr Heart
The electronic scene of Denmark seems to flourish these years. New labels and sound artists emerge and quite a few reach the limelight of the international sound art scene.
Danish sound artist Jacob Kirkegaard (Touch Records) is one of the latest examples of artists who have gained great attention for his works thanks to some excellent releases
on among others British label Touch. Danish label Phisteria is another place to be, if you're looking for electronic sound explorations of the more cross-bordering kind.
According to the owner of label, Phisteria conceptually focuses on music with depth and subtle awareness of the soul.
In other words the majority of the releases of the label has their starting point in deep and immersive territories of sonic expression,
with Danish power electronics/ambient noise project Wldchengarten being one of the better known names that focus on the drones based style.
Compatriot project HINSIDAN also belongs to the drone-based style. And they certainly do it well. "Hinsidan" is the Swedish word for "beyond" and the name fits
perfectly well into the sonic spheres of the project. Having released three albums within 2007, we are dealing with a quite active project.
Despite the common denominator of circulating in dreamlike atmospheres, there is a difference between the three releases. First album titled "God is in the details" (Phisteria label)
is the most rhythmic of the three. Hypnotic dub-like rhythms create a nice texture in the otherwise ambient-oriented sound world. The sound spheres ranges from pure electronic escapism
to more down-to-earth expressions with the addition of acoustic percussions and guitars. Distant voices create a feeling of being left on your own far away from other human activity.
Excellent album! Second album reviewed here is titled "Bleach dye yr heart" (released by the "Gears Of Sand"-label). This album belongs to the harsher and darker areas of floating expression.
The title of the opening track "Slaughter of the innocence, Slaughter of the innocent" confirms the fact that we are dealing with sonic darkness on this one. The aforementioned opening
track is a sinister piece built on short-looped ultra-deep buzzing drones. The almost frightening sound spheres remains intact halfway through the album with the fifth track being a
turning point. As the title suggest "Traders of optimism" contains a feeling of warmth thanks to the grandiose almost angelic ambience turning the memories back to the British legendary
project Global Communication. Despite the extreme minimalism of the album, there is a great variety on this very intense album with expressions reminiscent of everything from early Brian Eno
to Coil. Third album reviewed here is titled "Shapeshifter blues" (released by German label Verato Project) and it is the warmest and most melodic album of the three.
As was the case with "Bleach dye yr heart" the strength of the album is the intense minimalism making space for some dreamy and casually psychedelic ambient works turning the memories back to
the ritual psychedelic ambience of early Coil. Again the utilised sounds of guitar gives a very nice organic feeling on the album. Thus we have three quite varied approaches
to ambient expression from Hinsidan who certainly proves their ability to reach higher levels of the contemporary electronic scene.