German Marcus Obst has been operating for many years in the underground "experimental" scene under various names of which the most known remains his dronæment incarnation...
Some of his releases included works for AFE (Andrea Marutti’s label), DACHSTUHL (Tarkatak/Lutz Pruditsch’s label) & french label LE CRI DE LA HARPE (collaboration with RABBITS’SORROW)...
Marcus is quite a versatile artist who loves to throw a bridge between his visuals & sounds...
As for dronæment’s "ethics", they are maybe enclosed into its own name... "drone as ornament", as a vital & mesmerizing motif...
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Proceeding from a singular fascination for the interaction between elemental forces, natural phenomena, and all sorts of currents, dronæment's music is also an intuitive transcription of the experience of being rooted in the memory of a specific location...
On "ezoterick soundzcapes", a few drops seem suspended, half-frozen in the open air, forming a trembling pool of evanescent vibrations, a corona of waving particles, a striping motion leading to a calm shelter...
Like waking up on a submerged morning,
a repeated echo pounds out a lunar chant, digging deeper, culminating with each passage along its washed out circles...
"ezoterick soundzcapes" flow like a translucent sea on a wasted shore, pinpointing some dormant energies...
(words by ChalkDC - Mystery Sea)
Labelwebsite Mystery Sea