Nuuk
Essential reissue of dark ambient deity Thomas Köner's icy 1997 Arctic expedition 'Nuuk' - a stunningly detailed sonic picture of alien territory: gaseous, minimal, foreboding and enduringly evocative. There are plenty of imitators, but only one Thomas Köner.
By the sheer volume of gloomy ambient records being squirted into the world right now, you'd think it was easy music to produce. One listen to "Nuuk" though and it's immediately clear that this isn't the case. Köner is one of the genre's foremost innovators, and his music still sounds complex, remote and completely unique, decades later.
Like many of his albums, "Nuuk" is influenced by Köner's time spent traversing Arctic landscapes. It's named after the capital of Greenland, and evokes that frozen landscape using deep, creaking bass sounds, blustering pads and crumbling environmental recordings. The tracks are surprisingly widescreen at times, as subtle harmonies emerge peek through the fog like cracks of sunlight.
'Nuuk (Night)' is as sensually psychedelic as it is glacial, revealing the textural potential of the genre and showing Köner's intense attention to detail as the track heaves and dissipates like icy breath. There are few other artists that come even close to Köner here - Lustmord, Deathprod or Basinski maybe - and even then, Köner's output towers over a land of its own. So essential.
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Essential reissue of dark ambient deity Thomas Köner's icy 1997 Arctic expedition 'Nuuk' - a stunningly detailed sonic picture of alien territory: gaseous, minimal, foreboding and enduringly evocative. There are plenty of imitators, but only one Thomas Köner.
By the sheer volume of gloomy ambient records being squirted into the world right now, you'd think it was easy music to produce. One listen to "Nuuk" though and it's immediately clear that this isn't the case. Köner is one of the genre's foremost innovators, and his music still sounds complex, remote and completely unique, decades later.
Like many of his albums, "Nuuk" is influenced by Köner's time spent traversing Arctic landscapes. It's named after the capital of Greenland, and evokes that frozen landscape using deep, creaking bass sounds, blustering pads and crumbling environmental recordings. The tracks are surprisingly widescreen at times, as subtle harmonies emerge peek through the fog like cracks of sunlight.
'Nuuk (Night)' is as sensually psychedelic as it is glacial, revealing the textural potential of the genre and showing Köner's intense attention to detail as the track heaves and dissipates like icy breath. There are few other artists that come even close to Köner here - Lustmord, Deathprod or Basinski maybe - and even then, Köner's output towers over a land of its own. So essential.
Essential reissue of dark ambient deity Thomas Köner's icy 1997 Arctic expedition 'Nuuk' - a stunningly detailed sonic picture of alien territory: gaseous, minimal, foreboding and enduringly evocative. There are plenty of imitators, but only one Thomas Köner.
By the sheer volume of gloomy ambient records being squirted into the world right now, you'd think it was easy music to produce. One listen to "Nuuk" though and it's immediately clear that this isn't the case. Köner is one of the genre's foremost innovators, and his music still sounds complex, remote and completely unique, decades later.
Like many of his albums, "Nuuk" is influenced by Köner's time spent traversing Arctic landscapes. It's named after the capital of Greenland, and evokes that frozen landscape using deep, creaking bass sounds, blustering pads and crumbling environmental recordings. The tracks are surprisingly widescreen at times, as subtle harmonies emerge peek through the fog like cracks of sunlight.
'Nuuk (Night)' is as sensually psychedelic as it is glacial, revealing the textural potential of the genre and showing Köner's intense attention to detail as the track heaves and dissipates like icy breath. There are few other artists that come even close to Köner here - Lustmord, Deathprod or Basinski maybe - and even then, Köner's output towers over a land of its own. So essential.
Essential reissue of dark ambient deity Thomas Köner's icy 1997 Arctic expedition 'Nuuk' - a stunningly detailed sonic picture of alien territory: gaseous, minimal, foreboding and enduringly evocative. There are plenty of imitators, but only one Thomas Köner.
By the sheer volume of gloomy ambient records being squirted into the world right now, you'd think it was easy music to produce. One listen to "Nuuk" though and it's immediately clear that this isn't the case. Köner is one of the genre's foremost innovators, and his music still sounds complex, remote and completely unique, decades later.
Like many of his albums, "Nuuk" is influenced by Köner's time spent traversing Arctic landscapes. It's named after the capital of Greenland, and evokes that frozen landscape using deep, creaking bass sounds, blustering pads and crumbling environmental recordings. The tracks are surprisingly widescreen at times, as subtle harmonies emerge peek through the fog like cracks of sunlight.
'Nuuk (Night)' is as sensually psychedelic as it is glacial, revealing the textural potential of the genre and showing Köner's intense attention to detail as the track heaves and dissipates like icy breath. There are few other artists that come even close to Köner here - Lustmord, Deathprod or Basinski maybe - and even then, Köner's output towers over a land of its own. So essential.
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Essential reissue of dark ambient deity Thomas Köner's icy 1997 Arctic expedition 'Nuuk' - a stunningly detailed sonic picture of alien territory: gaseous, minimal, foreboding and enduringly evocative. There are plenty of imitators, but only one Thomas Köner.
By the sheer volume of gloomy ambient records being squirted into the world right now, you'd think it was easy music to produce. One listen to "Nuuk" though and it's immediately clear that this isn't the case. Köner is one of the genre's foremost innovators, and his music still sounds complex, remote and completely unique, decades later.
Like many of his albums, "Nuuk" is influenced by Köner's time spent traversing Arctic landscapes. It's named after the capital of Greenland, and evokes that frozen landscape using deep, creaking bass sounds, blustering pads and crumbling environmental recordings. The tracks are surprisingly widescreen at times, as subtle harmonies emerge peek through the fog like cracks of sunlight.
'Nuuk (Night)' is as sensually psychedelic as it is glacial, revealing the textural potential of the genre and showing Köner's intense attention to detail as the track heaves and dissipates like icy breath. There are few other artists that come even close to Köner here - Lustmord, Deathprod or Basinski maybe - and even then, Köner's output towers over a land of its own. So essential.