Ellende - Heroin (Afe Records, 2004)

1 Heroin 20:26

During the recent years Ellende has fastly got a very strong reputation in the Dark Ambient / Experimental scene thanks to a bunch of CD-R and MP3 limited edition releases on many labels all over the world such as Tosom, Fukk God Lets Create, Zeromoon, Taâlem, Mystery Sea, Stridulum Recordings, Somnambulant Corpse and more.

Afe is proud to add another small piece to what seems to be an endless black'n'white jigsaw with "Heroin", a twenty minutes long MiniCD-R 3" released in our extremely limited LTD 50 serie.

"Heroin" starts as a sparse and pleasantly vibrating drone-based piece and slowly get crowded with pulsating and swirling elements.

As the swirlings continue and percussive sounds are introduced, the music evolves into some kind of hazy and hypnotic dream populated by creatures speaking with backward/high-pitched voices.

Approaching the end of the track, all these elements slowly fade away leaving room for otherworldly noises/effects and a sort of vocoderized voice.
Afe Records

A nice addition to this mysterious Dutch/Japanese project's extended discography, "Heroin" is a 20-minute piece as grim as the title and the graphics suggest - the concept obviously being taking one's life via drug overdose.
Ghost voices crawl in and out of the sullen drones, and Ellende surely know(s) how to mix all the different sounds in a cohesive composition.
Even the final litany, apparently filtered through a vocoder, sounds credible and effective. Limited to a mere 50 copies, so hurry while you can, as it's very good.
Eugenio Maggi in Chain D.L.K.

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Ellende - No Talent For Living (Stridulum Recordings, 2004)

1 Am I A Coward When I Fear Death? (8:05)
2 Hell Is The Other And The Other Is Me (8:02)
3 In Life There Is Nothing I Fear More Than Death (6:46)
4 No Talent For Living (24:24)

The collective led by a Dutch man in Japan, under the banner 'Ellende' have exchanged enough material to offer a new release, on again a topheavy thematic approach. Going for no less than some insights on 'life, death and fear'. For those who love a good popsong this is not the place to be. Ellende finds themselves in pretty much the same corner as Temperature Within, but are less sophistacted. Four lenghty pieces of dark drones, with in the background a slow rhythmic sample or some stretched out sounds. Way more minimal than the other one, but nevertheless with a moody impact.

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