Saturday, February 15, 2014

Basarabian Hills - "In The Stillness Of The Codrii" [2013]

Artist: Basarabian Hills
Title: In The Stillness Of The Codrii
Genre: Dark Ambient (mostly)
Country: Moldova
Year: 2013

Track List:
  1. Wanderer Through The Melancholy Of The Woods (Part 1)
  2. Wanderer Through The Melancholy Of The Woods (Part 2)
  3. In The Stillness Of The Codrii
  4. Decline Of An Old Tree
Basarabian Hills is an one-man atmospheric black metal/ambient project from a small Moldovan town called Făleşti. BH's music is clearly nature-inspired, and always was more ambient than metal. However, two first albums ("Spirit of the Native Land" and "Breath of a Wide Valley") featured more black metal elements than this one. "In The Stillness Of The Codrii" consists of 4 tracks, all of them exactly 10 minutes long. The Lustre-influenced black metal/shoegaze of the earlier albums is almost completely gone, it's ambient for the most part. Surely this album has some flaws, but it's definitely better than the first two ones; actually it's quite good considering it comes from provincial Moldova, an area where underground music of any kind is nearly nonexistent. I also shouls notice that BH has one of the best logos ever ;)

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