![]() Hums fade in and fade out, electrical sounds emerge and recede. Though the music on this album will be often referred to as drone music, careful listening (preferably with headphones) will reveal that it isn’t, because there always something different going on, the musical spectre is constantly changing. Air Force base in Cambridgeshire, England.”Ī weapon of destruction that deserves no right to exist and one should not want to relate to in any way.īut there’s some strange attraction hidden in things that should be feared, and with these sounds Kevin Doherty manages to relate death to eternity – in an acoustical sense anyway. ![]() But, compared to the somewhat romantic (yet dark) fantasy of the Alien spaceship, the basic material used here is a lot less romantic: these 5 tracks are “mixed and edited from re-sampled location recordings originally captured inside the hanger environs of a Northrop-Grumman B-2 Stealth Bomber, during a period of downtime maintenance at a U.S. In a way, “ Stealth” follows the same path. (If you don’t know this album: get it! It is every bit a Classic). It just featured the deep humming sounds of the spaceship, venturing deeper and deeper into each lowering deck, thus creating the ultimate outer-space feeling. ![]() ![]() Part of the magic of Nostromowas that it took the sound and the inspiration from the first minutes of Alien. It’s an interesting aside that the two masters of deep drone, some of the very few artists able to create soundscapes that seem to span the complete universe – Thomas Könerand Sleep Research Facility – release their new album in the same month.įive years after his latest album, Deep Frieze, and eleven years after his legendary landmark debut Nostromo, Sleep Research Facility ( Kevin Doherty from Glasgow, Scotland) returns with “ Stealth“.Īnd, like watching the universe at night, the overall view of this album may seem the same – but the difference is in the details.Īnd the longer you watch, the more details you will see. ![]()
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