Amethystium - Isabliss
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Artist: AmethystiumEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-06-17
Music Label: Neurodisc
Soundtracks:
- A Small Adventure
- La Pluie
- Treasure
- Unbounded
- Anthemoessa
- Automne
- Strangely Beautiful
- Frosty Morning Bliss
- Silken Twine
- Dreamlike Insomnia
- Elegy
Music reviews of Isabliss
Music Review: Amethystium - Isabliss
Rating: 5 Stars
STYLE
Dreamy fairy tale soundscapes delivered with lush melodic electronica and ethereal female vocals. Amethystium has deepened and developed his sound with this latest offering - the arrangements are confident and sweeping, the instrumental work lucid and bright, the vision clearer than ever. Now the vocals are mostly specially recorded performances from such singers as Lee Nisbet, Stine Mari Langstrand and Irina Mikhailova. The gorgeous downtempo beats are still multifaceted and evolving - those low key muted interlude grooves punctuating the shadows. The synth work is multi-layered; repeating phrases and arpeggios rolling over expansive pads and strings, chimes and little metalic notes twinkling in the background - warm melodies and strong themes demanding the attention, then dropping away into gentleness and quiet corners. On Isabliss the synthetics are accompanied by some deftly interwoven electric guitars and keening violins.
ARTWORK
This is a fantastic piece of packaging, capturing excellently what Amethystium is all about. A three-panel digipack almost monochrome, full of delightful imagery courtesy of Grey Decay and Brian Son. The front cover features a striking twisted tree with dense clouds for foliage, wheeling birds circling the branches. On the reverse is a close-up of the gnarled trunk, track titles alongside. Within two stark black birds adorn a knotted bough that has a bright lantern hanging at its tip. Another panel opens out to reveal the second half of the rear cover tree trunk - here too are credits and some thanks. A final turn of the page reveals the rest of the inner picture - a flying bird trails dark leaves apparently fluttering out from a shuttered window. There is a delightful air of mystery and appealing shade about the whole package - very tasteful and stirring to the imagination - you'll want to hold it as you listen.
OVERALL
This is the fourth album in the unfolding Amethystium story - the fifth if you count the compilation Emblem. Once more Neurodisc are the chosen label for the Norwegian bedroom artist turned producer, composer, multi-instrumentalist. If you have heard Øystein Ramfjord's previous albums you'll know what to expect - although the dragonfly trilogy, as it came to be known, was concluded with Evermind, the trademark sound is still all here, just better. I think this is a stronger collection that Evermind, more purposeful and more clearly standing on the shoulders of earlier material. There are some beautiful moments - I didn't think Øystein could manage to become any more blissful and dreamy than the Aphelion CD, but the track Frosty Morning Bliss manages it. Lilting piano phrases and Stine Mari Langstand's heavenly vocalisations work with some lovely understated electronics to create one of the most chilled-out pieces of musical mystique I've come across.
Description of Isabliss
Amethystium is a music project aiming to create and explore emotive imaginary worlds in sound. Primarily electronic-based, the compositions traverse a span of moods that includes both light and darkness, bliss and melancholy. They range from the purely relaxing to the subtly intense, creating dreamlike and evocative musical journeys. Formed by Norwegian composer/producer Oystein Ramfjord, Amethystium started out independently with a demo release in late 1999. After quickly becoming something of an underground phenomenon through word of mouth, the project was signed to then EMI/Capitol subsidiary Neurodisc Records and released a string of three Top 10 Billboard charting albums in the US.Dance & DJ CDs
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