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Release Date: 2024-08-01Label: Temporize Records
https://temporize.bandcamp.com/album/scenes-fromSet as a two-act play, Scenes From is Gruth’s third solo album, following 2020’s Somnum Exterreri and 2018’s Laments. Written in São Paulo and Salvador da Bahia, Brazil between 2018 and 2021, a musical study of anxiety, this album consists of eight scenes, which are experimentations that preceded the pandemic-time collaboration All That We See or Seem.
Ranging from fever dreamy ambient pieces to ritualistic doom industrial, from experimental black metal to neo-classical, the album moves from one scene to the next like a story. The sonic palette used in Act I is more aggressive and overwhelming, whilst the delusional calmness of Act II showcases a different emotional energy. Various instruments and techniques are explored throughout the two acts: field recordings merge with electric guitars, granular synthesis as well as the violin, cello and kantele recordings of KuJo and the throat singing of Igor Souza.
Scenes From might not be for the faint-hearted, but it should soothe the nerves of those with a taste for something more challenging.