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Empiric is the drone/noise/ambient project from Jim Haras, also involved in other projects and groups as Deterge, Urine Cop, Winters In Osaka and many others. ‘Familiar’ is the only release under his Emperic project (released in 2012, but recorded in 2011). To bad, because it definitely makes me yearn for more.The EP is counting two tracks, each on one side. The first one is “Languid”, which starts with dark, moodfull drones, delayed high ranged percussion (bells?) and dissonant ambient. The overall sound of the beginning is exotic and puts you right into bleak, Vietnam war movies like Full Metal Jacket, Platoon and Apocalypse Now. Than it gets noisier with crude, washy, concrete sounding noise and hissing sounds. But on the background the eerie jungle is still present. Out of the noise also arises new sounds, and other kind of drones, very hypnotic.
On the other side we have “Percolate”, which is also residing in the exotic area, at least to my experience. Heavily reverbed, metallic percussion and more waves of drones are tangling into each other, as if they are dancing with each other and create a beautiful and playful, yet sinister combination of sounds. Joined a bit later by strange synthesizer noises, the human world is not far away.
A very nice release for the dark drone/ambient lovers, who also like a more experimental style of music.
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