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ov elf and haarp

by B°TONG

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conceived & produced by B°TONG
photography & layout by C. Sigdell

btongmusic.wix.com/btong
btong.bandcamp.com

former available as CD-R:
- ltd. ed. 50 copies in handpainted CD-bag - SOLD OUT !
- edition in plastic-sleeve - SOLD OUT !

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more releases by B°TONG on attenuation circuit:

emerge.bandcamp.com/album/split-9
emerge.bandcamp.com/album/augenaufschlag
emerge.bandcamp.com/album/un-b-tong
emerge.bandcamp.com/album/the-soul-eater

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released January 19, 2014

A concept album by Swiss dark ambient/drone legend B°tong which uses the conspiracy theory on the High-Frequency Active Auroral Research project (HAARP) as its basis while simultaneously infusing it with subtle and highly sophisticated artistic irony. Deep electronic drones invoking the echo of enormous rooms and sound collages oscillating between the crackle of polar snow and echo location devices pinging through secret command bases combine to form a soundtrack of subliminally brooding horror while sometimes allowing for surprising lighter moments.

These lighter moments include the almost meditative, tonal marimba sound in “Pagan Field Trip” (track 6), which is however replaced by “Stars Right Be Wrong” (track 7) taking the listener straight back into the dark with reverberating whispers and bat-like delay screeches. This album is “cinema for the ears” without the cliché, because reading the liner notes about HAARP, an attempt by the US Navy to turn the aurora borealis in a giant antenna for broadcasting in the ELF (Extremely Low Frequencies), conjures up images from a conspiracy/horror thriller on the subject, which makes it possible to listen to this album as a sort of radio drama (almost) without words. After the respective oeuvres of film composers Graeme Revell (formerly of SPK) and Brian Williams (Lustmord), this album is further testimony to the common ground between “dark” ambient and atmospheric soundtracks.

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