Semtex

Another new goodie from the hills of Housepig Records. This time we get a silkscreened cdr packed in a silkscreened cloth bag. Looks pretty cool with the photocopied inner sleeve being photocopied on silver blue coloured paper. I love these things, and the creativity that comes with cd-r's. Lately I've been hooked by the harsh brutal noise realms from Fire In The Head. Sky Burial is a side project from that same Michael Page aka Fire In The Head.

Sky Burial is pretty much totally different from what you got shoved down your throat with Fire In The Head. Consider Sky Burial more of an ambient–esque trip. Michael Page being creative with ambient and drones. Opening composition "to mock a killing bird" is a long droner with some cathedralic feeled sounds, repeating some aural patterns that open up new grey filled worlds. Combining this with some minimal instrumentation and pulsive gentle beats. Adding layers of new sounds that create new feels during the ambientesque compositions. This is good stuff, and I'm already hooked on this. As Sky Burial is destined to take you on to a different world. Same with "there are dragonflies at dawn" that brings you on a longly stretched aural landscape. Still handling a subtle atmosperic feeled direction. While "distant dissonance disappearing" takes things a little differently, I was pretty much a sucker for "smokescreen" with layered repeated industrial sounds and a strong drone keeping you close to your stereo surround system.

"awaking from someone else's dream" is a slow haunting atmospheric dreamer, sometimes it feels like meditative with some warm droning sounds. Very calming with a glooming horizon. After five minutes you'll feel like desolated from everything around you. The closing "frostfire" feels kind of differently, still intimate enough to listen to it by yourself. In here he's throwing in some some minimal piano elements, cutted up and decomposed while inbetween some rumbling background sounds come in, feels pretty darkened and makes you feel isolated again underneath a dark rain. I don't know why I always want to describe the feeling I'm getting from some songs. But with music like this it just has to.

For a first cdr Sky Burial is pretty much impressive. Michael Page putted lots of work into his compositions and pretty much each composition feels different from each other. Which delivers a varied cdr with top notch ambient and droning compositions. I'd say I'm totally down with the harshnerss from Fire In The Head, Sky Burial made me looking out for more coming from Michael Page's creative skills. I hope to see a full cd release coming from Sky Burial soon. That would be awesome. For now try to get a hold of this, cause it seems to be limited to 150 copies only. Worth your effort, if you're in need for some music for escapism. Recommended.