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HEID: Pilgrim of the Sublunary World Release year: 2002 Format: CD Tracklist: 1: Untitled 04:28 Total Length: 59:55 min General Facts: Heid is a former musical collective from the north of Sweden. The project split up not too long ago when the people behind it decided to go separate ways and form L.E.A.K and Survival Unit. Heid released some albums before its demise but due to various reasons, some of these experienced difficulties in reaching the listeners. Pilgrim of the Sublunary World is the epitaph of Heid and it is made available by Sweden's Cold Meat Industry. The first 2000 copies comes in a 6-panel digi-pack. Review: Pilgrim of the Sublunary World consists of Dark Ambient, mostly built around darkly serene drones. This CD paints the picture of Heid as some kind shapeshifting musical entity, a jack of all trades if you want. I can hear resemblance to several other Swedish artist in Heid's music; raison d'être, Sephiroth, even old Mortiis and several other of the less noisy CMI acts. It's not like Heid is some kind of polymorphous copy-cat even though some tracks do lack originality. It feels more like their soundspectra is far from restricted to just a single form of Dark Ambient. Though relatively varied, I sense a certain unity in the sound and sometimes it is good, for example in the gloomy 7th track with its mysterious voice samples and its melancholic piano piece. I would say that the variety which is to be found in Heid's music is Heid's finest attribute. This is variety in a sense which is not akin to an album being fragmented or too bewildering. Heid combine very ample, cosmic Dark Ambient parts with more earthbound ones without confusing the listener. Sometimes, the contrasts can be very big, from Noise to Dark Ambient, from Dark Ambient to Melodic music. The result is that this album is a very suggestive one that sketch vivid scenarios in the mind while it is heard. My strongest association to Heid's music is standing in a very ancient forests, listening to the murmurs of the trees and the low cracklings of the rocks of old. A pure romanticised fabrication, yet a vivid fantasy provoked by the music on this CD. If you like projects like the ones mentioned earlier in this review, you may want to check out Heid. I can't say that this is the most original stuff I have heard but it is surely skilfully structured with a lot sophisticated musical combinations. not to forget, its splendid atmosphere. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Click here to contact Heid |
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