ambient / experimental / drone
Rapoon returned once more to the Winter-Light label with the last part of the Mercury Rising Trilogy, Sol Laude: Mercury Rising 3. Robin Storey’s new feel, that of a more off world spacious ambiance, was extended in the album Sol Laude without losing its own identity. The out of the box approach of this electronic music recording grasped us immediately by the throat.
A dark claustrophobic soundscape emerged from the first tunes through the headphones (yes, this is headphone music). Vast structures of blackened cavities filled with sounds of unknown cosmic origins create a filmic science-fiction world. Mysterious sounds and voice-like effects convey tranquility with relieving fairy tale bliss. The ethno and jazzy modus operandi combined with neoclassical sound structures left us with a new interstellar and sensational feeling.
The trilogy began in November 2017 with Sanctus Equinox, which was then followed by Offworld OP1 Equs (http://www.merchantsofair.com/albums/rapoon-offworld-op1-equs). On Sol Laude the thoughts and visions of Robin Storey are transferred into musical experiments which sting the brain cells like soft needles, stimulating a mind melt with the music and moves the listener to strange off worlds. The impressions transferred by this recording are overwhelming. The most impressive part is A New Sun, a twenty minutes long track with echoing industrial drones and piano parts that conceive emotions of sadness and emptiness colored with subtle neoclassical melodies.
Rapoon is a living spaceship traveling like a comet into deep space and collecting fragments of precious and drifting remnants of the past and the future. This third part of the Mercury Rising Trilogy is a wonderful and stimulating trip filled with electronic soundscapes, classical arrangements and majestic choral bursts. Rapoon’s creations contain the afflatus of a genius. Sol Laude is an exceeding piece of exploring electronic music and makes the Mercury Rising triptych a unique and mind blowing work. We already know what we want for X-mas…
Patsker
A dark claustrophobic soundscape emerged from the first tunes through the headphones (yes, this is headphone music). Vast structures of blackened cavities filled with sounds of unknown cosmic origins create a filmic science-fiction world. Mysterious sounds and voice-like effects convey tranquility with relieving fairy tale bliss. The ethno and jazzy modus operandi combined with neoclassical sound structures left us with a new interstellar and sensational feeling.
The trilogy began in November 2017 with Sanctus Equinox, which was then followed by Offworld OP1 Equs (http://www.merchantsofair.com/albums/rapoon-offworld-op1-equs). On Sol Laude the thoughts and visions of Robin Storey are transferred into musical experiments which sting the brain cells like soft needles, stimulating a mind melt with the music and moves the listener to strange off worlds. The impressions transferred by this recording are overwhelming. The most impressive part is A New Sun, a twenty minutes long track with echoing industrial drones and piano parts that conceive emotions of sadness and emptiness colored with subtle neoclassical melodies.
Rapoon is a living spaceship traveling like a comet into deep space and collecting fragments of precious and drifting remnants of the past and the future. This third part of the Mercury Rising Trilogy is a wonderful and stimulating trip filled with electronic soundscapes, classical arrangements and majestic choral bursts. Rapoon’s creations contain the afflatus of a genius. Sol Laude is an exceeding piece of exploring electronic music and makes the Mercury Rising triptych a unique and mind blowing work. We already know what we want for X-mas…
Patsker
