Download Comaduster - Darker Matter (Instrumentals) LP (FXT556)

Style Dubstep, IDM, Industrial
Released 27/12/2019
Format MP3,320kbps
Label FiXT
Cat FXT556
Type Album

Now in proud partnership with FiXT, the third full-length Comaduster album from veteran musician, video game sound designer and electronic music producer Réal Cardinal, is here. Titled Darker Matter, the 16 track album delivers a densely packed odyssey of sound and emotion, exploring the realms of IDM, Drum and Bass and post-rock sensibilities while simultaneously merging elements of Americana folk music, djent and doom metal, further accompanied by dark ambient shadows. The album’s intricate music production is juxtaposed by powerful vocal performances from Comaduster himself, as well as multiple tracks featuring the talented female vocalist, Mari Kattman.

Though not a concept album -- at least not nearly as much as the previous Comaduster album Solace -- the album is heavily inspired by our deep but incomplete understanding of extreme physics, and metaphysical aspects of our lives. The emotional core is much more personal and direct than anything Cardinal has previously produced, resulting in a darker and grittier atmosphere than previous Comaduster albums.

Exploring themes of occult imagery, alchemic mystery, paradoxical physics, and harsh science fiction, Darker Matter takes on these tropes with musical interpretations pushing into the limitations of digital editing, time-stretching, vocal processing, time signature complexities, labyrinthian rhythm structures, intentional audio abuse and noise artifacts.

The unifying element throughout the 80 minute album journey though is Comaduster himself, the dark mage, responsible for each sonic manipulation as he pushes & pulls listeners through hidden associations and obscurity to interconnectedness and passage through his elaborate maze.

Comaduster — "Cast Your Shadow (Instrumental)" 4:40
Comaduster — "failure2 (Instrumental)" 4:32
Comaduster — "Fever Rift (Instrumental)" 5:39
Comaduster — "Monolith (Instrumental)" 5:23
Comaduster — "Pyramids (Instrumental)" 4:03
Comaduster — "Decimate The Burden (Instrumental)" 5:27
Comaduster — "Darker Matter (Instrumental)" 7:25
Comaduster — "A Somnolent Descent" 2:45
Comaduster — "Following The Night (Instrumental)" 4:50
Comaduster — "Nebulous Amorphous (Instrumental)" 4:19
Comaduster — "What Can Never Be Taken From You (Instrumental)" 2:41
Comaduster — "Riverbound (Instrumental)" 3:23
Comaduster — "Bad Blood (Instrumental)" 5:19
Comaduster — "Time We Have Left (Song For Jonas) (Instrumental)" 2:59
Comaduster — "Escape Velocity (Instrumental)" 6:41
Comaduster — "Triquetra Induo (Hidden To Yourself) (Instrumental)" 8:02
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Третий полноформатный альбом от виртуозного саунд-дизайнера, музыканта и продюсера Réal Cardinal теперь доступен и в полностью инструментальном издании. Darker Matter — это определённо апогей творчества Comaduster, демонстрирующий, насколько сложной, разнообразной и эмоциональной бывает современная электронная музыка.

По стилевой составляющей среди 16 треков нашлось место и проработанным до мелочей элементам IDM, и напористому драм-энд-бэйсу, и тонкой чувственности пост-рока, мрачнейшему дженту и дум-металу, американскому фолку и даже гнетущему дарк-эмбиенту.

В сравнении с Solace, предыдущим альбомом проекта, Darker Matter не имеет чёткого концепта. Однако, здесь всё так же исследуются сложные и важные вопросы, касающиеся метафизической стороны наших жизней и нашего абсолютного непонимания окружающего мира. Эмоционально же — это самая личная и самая тёмная работа автора, которая не оставит равнодушным даже самого искушённого слушателя.

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