Vinterriket – horizontmelancholie
[Steinklang, Heimatfolk, 2009]
genre: dark ambient, black, dark, experimental rock, ambient
Album Review by Sovereign

A dark and cloudy release, a relaxing sound, an ambient music picture, all these together can result this album. The use of German language in the lyrics makes it darker to me and gives to it a folk and traditional dimension. Christoph Ziegler who is the guy behind this project, proves that his inspiration is abyssal or something like bottomless. Last year’s album of him “Zeit-Los:Laut-Los” bewitched me, and I think this release is again in high levels and it can be one of the best slow and dark ambient releases of the year. Beautiful silence vibes, electronic tones and some acoustic strings spreading around and makes it more experimental but for sure more easy to listen it. Ethereal sounds and dark chorus… so be careful, if you close your eyes… you can leave your mind, you can dive in a dark and cloudy river and go down with a wooden boat (I think it will be released in a limited black wooden package)… discover the sound of Vinterriket. Dark as hell.

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buy: http://www.vinterriket.com/market.html
http://www.steinklang-records.at/shop/index.php?main_page=product_music_info&products_id=3061

Links:
http://www.myspace.com/vinterriketofficial
http://horizontmelancholie.vinterriket.com/
http://www.vinterriket.com/

tracks:
01. Schattengeräusche
02. Durch Die Weiten Der Landschaft
03. Herbstreich
04. Irrlichterscheinung
05. Bergtal
06. Wogen Des Firmamentes
07. Waldkult

Sovereign