Artist: Alder & Ash
Album: Clutched in the Maw of the World
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2017
Audio Format: FLAC (tracks) 24bit, 44,1 kHz
Duration: 41:00
Total Tracks: 8
Total Size: 369 MB
Tracklist:
1-02. Alder & Ash – A Seat Amongst God and His Children (05:41)
1-03. Alder & Ash – All His Own, The Lord of Naught (04:58)
1-04. Alder & Ash – Clutched in the Maw of the World (05:22)
1-05. Alder & Ash – The Great Plains of Dust (05:07)
1-06. Alder & Ash – Seeds of a Sallow Earth (04:05)
1-07. Alder & Ash – The Merciful Dawn (05:03)
1-08. Alder & Ash – The Glisten, The Glow (06:47)
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Alder & Ash treads on the experimental fringes of modern classical, perhaps too abrasive to play nice with the coy melodrama of the scene. Yet, the music has enough grit to take hold of lovers of doom, noise, and the like, perhaps winning over new fans of cello music from even the most hardened black metal die-hards.
Alder and Ash are not without their contemporaries, at times bringing to mind the lonesome bowed soundscapes of Warren Ellis, the calculated and darkly toned compositions of Christoph Berg, the rustic grandeur of the Montreal based label Constellation, or even the recent High Plains album on Kranky. With Alder & Ash’s penchant for unconventional rhythmics and freeform, teeth-baring experimentation one could also draw comparisons to the work of Colin Stetson.
‘Clutched in the Maw of the World’ is an honest and stark solitary journey in a desolate and destitute earth. It’s an album unafraid of being vulnerable, desperate and insecure, and above all else, it is not afraid to suffer.