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KAMMARHEIT: Asleep and Well Hidden Release year: 2003 Format: CD Tracklist: I: Hiding Total Length: 40:46 min General facts: KAMMARHEIT is a project by a Swedish guy named Pär Boström. The project was born in March 2000 as a way for Pär to express his feelings for dark ruins and desolate places. The project eventually evolved into for escaping the realities of the modern human world and all of its burdens. "Melancholic harmony" is something central to KAMMARHEIT's music and often the themes for the tracks derive from stillness, darkness and melancholy. Review: Hiding and Dreamhours remind very much of the last two tracks on RAISON D'ÊTRE's Enthralled by the Wind of Loneliness but even though a parallel between the two projects exist, KAMMARHEIT's ambience is deeper and more minimalistic with less serene elements. The basis of the music are some really dark drones which gives it a very dense feel. Recent albums I have heard which I find can be sorted into the same folder as Kammarheit are DENSE VISION SHRINE's Magic and Mystery and SLEEP RESEARCH FACILITY's Nostromo. Those of you who have heard the Nord Ambient Alliance compilation CD will also know what to expect here. KAMMARHEIT's music is excellent to just have in the background while relaxing with closed eyes. It is homogenous and it almost completely lacks noisier sections or elements of shock. No vocals emerge from the music, nor is there any violent percussion, just a seeping flow of dreamy ambience. Carefully as a spider's web, the music unfolds and soon the listener finds himself trapped in the middle of it, halfway through dream and reality. I think the strength of KAMMARHEIT lies in that they have a certain golden formula in their music, it not being too minimal, nor too extravagant. Small musical events are placed in the foreground, yet there is always a very rich feel to the music and it is excellent to just have in background while lying down visualising. Another parallel which can be drawn to RAISON D'ÊTRE is the use of screeching metal sounds. Much of Asleep and Well Hidden also resemble the final tracks on RAISON D'ÊTRE's The Empty Hollow Unfolds. KAMMARHIET may benefit from some more originality, yet it must not in any way exploit their sound since the atmosphere generating ability of their music is absolutely brilliant. I presume their music will appeal to fans of very minimal, obscure, yet not too noisy Dark Ambient. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Click here to enter the Kammarheit website - Click here to contact Kammarheit |
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