Lustmord - The Place Where the Black Stars Hang
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Artist: LustmordEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-07-16
Music Label: Soleilmoon
Soundtracks:
- Sol Om On
- Aldebaran Of The Hyades
- Dark Companion
- Metastatic Resonance
- Dog Star Descends
Free Music Notes for The Place Where the Black Stars Hang
Free Music Review: Lustmord is cosmology
Hit: 5 Stars
Do me a favor. Put this album on in a dark room, and just sit and think. Lustmord is here to put you in your place... to help you realize the vastness of the universe; the degree to which it is unknown, the degree to which we can't understand it. He does this with a beautifully spacial but intentionally limited sound vocabulary. This is classic, vintage Lustmord, full of his trademark 'whooshing' sounds and windy resonations... little abrasion or sonic clarity of any kind. The progressions of the pieces themselves are slow, simple and repetitive, yet everything about this album screams 'big'. It feels like nature... unsympathetic, but not hostile. A very meditative mood.
Calling this album part of the "dark ambient" genre is kind an odd choice in my mind. "The Place Where the Black Stars Hang" is neither negative nor positive. It will not scare you the way the Robert Rich collaboration "Stalker" or the more recent "Zoetrope" would. It's simply a canvas for existential and cosmological thoughts. It inspires creativity.
"Metastatic Resonance" is my favorite track from here for its heavenly whistling brilliance. However, all the pieces are wonderful. The original version of this album was all one track, and I feel that's the only way to listen to it... as a single, long-form composition. "Aldebaran of the Hyades" is a close second. It feels like standing in the house of God.
"The Place Where the Black Stars Hang" is a great introduction to Lustmord, and ambient music in general. Recommended for anyone with a taste for transcendental or spiritual experiences and a little patience.
I wouldn't buy it here on Amazon, it's more expensive than it has to be. I'd buy it from the Soleilmoon label (just Google it) in the newly remastered edition.
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"The Place Where the Black Stars Hang" was first released in 1994 on Side Effects, via Soleilmoon and while the earlier Lustmord album "Heresy" (Soleilmoon) gave birth to the "dark ambient" genre, it is "The Place Where the Black Stars Hang" that defines it. It's a work regularly cited by critics, audiences and musicians as being amongst the very best and most influential albums of its decade . "Black Stars" has been unavailable since 2002. It has been re-mastered and given new artwork for this edition. The differences are subtle yet powerful, giving the album a more nuanced feeling of space and detail than ever before. Based on recognition established through recordings such as "Black Stars", Brian Williams, the man who is Lustmord, went on to provide music and sound design for numerous major motion pictures, with credits on over 40, including The Crow, The Negotiator, Pitch Black, The Saint and Underworld. He has also since scored music for video games and television, and provided sound design for commercials, including Nike and Budweiser. His resume includes work with Tool, Melvins, Chris & Cosey, Coil, Paul Haslinger (Tangerine Dream), SPK, Robert Rich, Current 93 and Nurse with Wound. He has done remixes for Jarboe (Swans), Venetian Snares, Lori Carson, Tool and Mortiis. From 1985 until 1999 he ran Side Effects Records, the label launched by SPK, releasing more than 30 albums. As Lustmord he has released 11 albums since 1981. Oft imitated, but never equaled, Lustmord: The Power of Sound.Dance & DJ Music CDs
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