#46 - Hibernation
by The Owl
Grandpa Grim
Grandpa Grim
This was my introduction to The Owl. Wow! Brilliant without being forced. The production is flawless. That separation that really makes it come alive. Transporting the listener to these unrelenting environments. I can feel the desolation. Each track stands alone, yet the continuity weaves it together making the parts a whole piece. This isn't for everybody but everybody should get it. This is art. A mesmerizing trip through the darkness and isolation in us all and the world. Masterpiece work.
Favorite track: Hornstrandir.
danvoid
danvoid
Slow transition from normal human being to extraterrestrial snow-like substance. Cool. That's what isolation does.
YomaBarr
YomaBarr
Music doesn't scare me, normally.
But this, I can't take this all in one go. Maybe later, when I grow used to it.
One, two pieces at a time. Incredible. Favorite track: Hornstrandir.
But this, I can't take this all in one go. Maybe later, when I grow used to it.
One, two pieces at a time. Incredible. Favorite track: Hornstrandir.
Scottie C
Scottie C
Just an amazing immersion in isolation & wilderness. Get your headphones on and be swept away. Magnificent.
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Hornstrandir
09:23
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Isolation
Letting go
of everything you know
is the first step
to finding everything
you need to know.
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Oymyakon
07:14
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Suspension
Of disbelief.
Of belief.
Of anything.
Onwards.
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Longyearbyen
05:20
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Disorientation.
You can't always predict.
Surely this is an interesting part of being alive?
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Ittoqqortoormiit
09:14
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Disintegration
Clarity will come.
Trust me.
You can always find harmony
even if it appears
that everything
has fallen apart.
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Kerguelen
09:39
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Desolation
Submerged in hypnosis
But sometimes you need a nudge
or a rude awakening
to really see everything
and to know how to proceed
to find the right path.
Home.
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Iqaluit
05:59
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Emergence
The weight of the dark
Will be lifted
If you let it be.
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about
*My second Bandcamp New & Notable - April 4th 2021* - Crazy feeling!
An auditory tale of isolated life, surrounded by Winter darkness, biting cold, daily difficulties, the battle that the body and moreso the mind must survive, as well as the catharsis of the other side.
Each song is named after incredibly remote towns and cities (in Iceland, Russia, Norway, Greenland, Antarctic and Canada) that have extreme low temperatures (Oymyakon has reports of -90!), and is about just how much the human spirit can endure.
Of course, the topic of hibernation and isolation applies to people in less severe climates, and all year round as well, as the battle in the mind can take you to some severely cold places, especially thinking of what the world is enduring at the moment.
There is always a hope to push through to the other side of the struggle.
Videos:
'Hornstrandir': www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV-HQsvcQa8
'Kerguelen': www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bke7x_0zzoY
'Iqaluit': www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl5sQVZhLNM
Full album: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO73sZW0CiU
An auditory tale of isolated life, surrounded by Winter darkness, biting cold, daily difficulties, the battle that the body and moreso the mind must survive, as well as the catharsis of the other side.
Each song is named after incredibly remote towns and cities (in Iceland, Russia, Norway, Greenland, Antarctic and Canada) that have extreme low temperatures (Oymyakon has reports of -90!), and is about just how much the human spirit can endure.
Of course, the topic of hibernation and isolation applies to people in less severe climates, and all year round as well, as the battle in the mind can take you to some severely cold places, especially thinking of what the world is enduring at the moment.
There is always a hope to push through to the other side of the struggle.
Videos:
'Hornstrandir': www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV-HQsvcQa8
'Kerguelen': www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bke7x_0zzoY
'Iqaluit': www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl5sQVZhLNM
Full album: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO73sZW0CiU
credits
released March 27, 2021
- Made between December 10th 2020 and January 15th 2021.
- Bass, piano, vocals, drums by The Owl.
- Photo taken by The Owl in Keflavíkurflugvöllur, Iceland.
- Most of the music was worked on after midnight for optimum isolated feeling.
- Bass and piano originally recorded at Eiger Studios, England and Klub Futra, Czech.
Headphones and darkness (and wav/flac if downloading) are most definitely advised for this sometimes cold, dark ambient noise drone journey with a few twists, especially for 'Itto', which literally reaches disintegration point at times (to represent the bleakest times), before clarifying itself and leading you into a different journey for the remaining part of the album, with its stronger and brighter closing two songs.
When there feels like no relent of the overwhelming sadness...
When it feels like everything is disintegrating....
When the internal noise is at its highest...
You can always find the final joule of fortitude.
Every year gets harder as it gets easier.
This is the soundtrack of my mind in these times.
For more ambient / dark ambient sounds, check out the following of my releases: 58, 54, 44, 28, 27, 29, 17, 9, 8, 7. Thank you to everyone who stops by my page. It's really appreciated.
- Made between December 10th 2020 and January 15th 2021.
- Bass, piano, vocals, drums by The Owl.
- Photo taken by The Owl in Keflavíkurflugvöllur, Iceland.
- Most of the music was worked on after midnight for optimum isolated feeling.
- Bass and piano originally recorded at Eiger Studios, England and Klub Futra, Czech.
Headphones and darkness (and wav/flac if downloading) are most definitely advised for this sometimes cold, dark ambient noise drone journey with a few twists, especially for 'Itto', which literally reaches disintegration point at times (to represent the bleakest times), before clarifying itself and leading you into a different journey for the remaining part of the album, with its stronger and brighter closing two songs.
When there feels like no relent of the overwhelming sadness...
When it feels like everything is disintegrating....
When the internal noise is at its highest...
You can always find the final joule of fortitude.
Every year gets harder as it gets easier.
This is the soundtrack of my mind in these times.
For more ambient / dark ambient sounds, check out the following of my releases: 58, 54, 44, 28, 27, 29, 17, 9, 8, 7. Thank you to everyone who stops by my page. It's really appreciated.
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The Owl Leeds, UK
Sound experiments since 1994; as THE OWL since October 2018.
Worked with the following labels:
Trepanation
Korobushka
Nailed Nazarene
Basement Corner
Vacuum Noise
Sputo
ExtraNation
Kalamine
Pichula
Default Standard
Mutual Aid
Please let me know of any compilations of any style. Thank you.
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