#1 - From Humble Beginnings...

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psy_collab humble beginnings?! that's great music, dude! Favorite track: Frá Auðmjúkum Byrjun.

Scottie C The first one from The Owl. Hooked from the first strains of noise. Love it.

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	1.	Frá Auðmjúkum Byrjun 08:28
	2.	The Solemn Hymn Of Self 04:28
	3.	Nothing But Nothingness 04:41
	4.	Floating Away From Dark Clouds 05:07

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"Starting out literally from humble beginnings, very quiet, drifting, floating around, almost aimless, lost; it is worth continuing to the end to understand why it began in such a way. Almost like a human finding its feet, gaining consciousness, figuring life out, and also kindly easing your mind, emptying it of all thought to allow the sounds to guide you, as you go on a very well considered journey through varied ambient and hypnotic stages of sound.

Stripped down, rhythmically awkward drums come in from time to time, whilst the more minimal electronic sounds fizz, contort, warp and twist underneath very sombre bass chords, that then make way for something darker, brooding, that I could entirely imagine in a tense section of a film, and reminds me of something from 'Monoliths and Dimensions' by Sunn o))).

Finally, the hypnotic repeating layers come back, with more emotive bass chords, and a huge build up takes us to the end of this four part piece of music from The Owl."

If you like your film and game soundtracks, or listening deep inside layers of sound, that at no point reveal anything frightening or too heavy for a listener, but still take you on an occasional tense journey or two, then this is worth 23 minutes of your time as the introduction to the mind of The Owl."

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released October 23, 2018

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There is a different version of this album (that initially was just intended as a remaster, it ended up having quite a few changes and additional layers): theowl.bandcamp.com/album/8-voyage

'Frá Auðmjúkum Byrjun...' Icelandic for 'From Humble Beginnings'.

Bass, drums, electronics, photo, logo - The Owl
All sounds created live: September 12th 2018

Cover image taken the month previous to recording, playing Bloodstock Festival 2018 in Hundred Year Old Man. What an experience!

Album on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJl9qlF7aG4

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The Owl Orlová, Czechia

A/V experiments since first DIY tape in 1994

Many bands and projects until The Owl was born in 2018

The Owls were formed in December 2021.

Welcome to the rest of the journey.

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