Ypsmael - Akystret

In a world devoid of life, where structures and equipment deteriorate in constitutional accord, a somber feeling emanates. Work being done, happiness and struggles of all involved, all are gone. What remains are massive decaying finger prints, of at some point in distant past, an "ancient civilization". This release titled Akystret by Ypsmael guides thoughts in this direction. Composed within are massive aural drones filled with ghostly currents and eddies of a vanished society. Akystret tells the story in sonic meter exquisitely, almost as if a walk amongst a myriad of ruins would have this composition as the soundtrack. Ypsmael, the project by German resident NM, draws on an internal beauty exposed with fleeting frequency. There is true difficulty in making magnificent sounds from the heaviness that surrounds us. Many times we are thrown into the pounding static abyss, a pulverized conscious reaching for a foothold in the ethereal. Listening to Akystret, we seem to drift, aloof of the molecular density transforming thoughts into metamorphic rock. Within the seven selections of Akystret, the feeling of forlorn is imparted while the spirit still holds to a frequency of higher vibration. This is very special and very difficult to achieve. Well done Ypsmael.

Released on both CDr and 12in white vinyl. Both formats are in editions of sixty. Akystret is a release on the Chocolate Monk label out of the UK. You can pick up physical copies from the label, or the Ypsmael bandcamp page. Either option works fine and will need to be tuned into where the order is from.

 

 

 

 

Links 

Ypsmael - bandcamp - facebook

Chocolate Monk