| With their third full-length recording Herbst9 set another milestone in the field of serious ritual ambient music. The tracks on "Buried Under Time and Sand," consisting of multi layered motives which emerge again and again, raise deeper into walls of sound, breaking to an absolute collapsing silence that blends into enduring drones and humming carpets in order to unload itself again. Laminar resounded high and low frequencies complement each other here with dark impacts and percussive elements that reminds of long forgotten cultures. The natural sound stands with Herbst9 and the ritual motives developing visionary sequences. The third album can not be reduced to a certain basic feeling, and it can not be categorized as pure ambient music. That is simply one of the most sensitive and most concentrated records in a long time, direct, endlessly devoured, and deep. Comes in beautiful digipak and extensive booklet. |
|