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kÖök - Imber Wiltshire [Va Fongool - 2014]

Imber, Wiltshire is mix of brooding & ominous dronescaping, & taut electro-acoustic's. The release takes its title, and theme from the abounded British town of the same name, which was to evacuated back in 1943, when the UK government decided to use Imber  for army training- in the end the  site was never used for training, though it's residents never returned.

The albums seven tracks run between three & nine mintues a piece, and each track here nicely captures the feeling edgy dread, taut abandonment, and stark nature over taking manmade structures. 

The project is centred around a pair of Norwegian guitarists Stian Larsen and Jørn Erik Ahlsen. With supporting roles on three tracks coming from Bassist Guro Skumsnes Moe and drummer  Erik Knedal Andersen. 

The seven tracks fairly evenly move between a mixture of barren yet pressing drone-matter, and taut yet atmospheric electro acoustic texturing & gitar-scaping. There is  sometimes  a surface layer of textural micro detail or subtle noise  present, and this rather gives quite a post nuclear vibe.

For most of the albums runtime the mood remains very taut, barren & edgy, through the last track "Imber Dock" features some slight more hopeful & melodic guitar textures.

On the whole this is a satisfying enough mix of drone & electro-acoustic texturing, with the whole thing nicely capturing the eerier yet taut vibe of a abandoned place. So if your into bleak yet edgy improv like atmospherics it’s worth a look

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Roger Batty
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