Dark Matter Halo - The Hermetic Drone Volumes 1 And 2 download free

A little while back we reviewed the first installment of The Hermetic Drone, which was the first release from Dark Matter Halo, the most recent project of aQ pal Monte Cimino, who is head honcho of brooding twang flecked heavies Burial Tree, as well as the man behind BT ambient offshoot Time Spent. That original cd-r has now been reissued as a proper cd, with a second volume/disc added on!!!Dark Matter Halo has more in common with Time Spent than the more rocking Burial Tree, but pushes the sound even further into the kosmische drift, ditching all of the rhythmic elements that drove Time Spent, barring the subtle pulsations caused by the ever shifting overtones, these two lengthy tracks, sprawling expanses of dreamlike shimmer, lush layered tones infused with a warm energy, softly undulating chordal swells, wreathed in a soft halo of gauze-y blissed out blur. The first track, "A.M.", definitely has a sun dappled morning vibe, bleary slowly unfurling melodies, a time lapse exploration of tonal color, a grey landscape gradually taking on color, the tones here seeming to fill the sky with a prismatic palette of warm sonic hues, gorgeously mesmerizing and dreamily meditative. The second track, appropriately titled "P.M." reverse engineers the first, effortlessly conjuring up a world in hibernation, a sky full of darkened blue, casting lengthening shadows, a lush crystalline expanse of low tones, woven into a gloriously textured backdrop, for the glimmering, glistening ghostlike melodies that hover above, spectral streaks of somnambulant mesmer, gliding lazily toward the dark, a soundtrack for drifting off, a sonic gateway to what lays beyond the veil. The second volume, more recently recorded, doesn't deviate too far from the template laid out by part one, the bulk of the new disc taken up by the sprawling cosmic transmission "Caravan To The Stars", clocking in at nearly 42 minutes, and making the most of all that time spent (ahem) weaving lush swells of softly pulsing chordal shimmer, and slowly swirling clouds of ethereal thrum, the first ten minutes passing like some time lapse film about the galaxy, a hazy dreamlike minimal drift, before some subtle tabla like percussion surfaces, giving the nebulous sonic mesmer some muted propulsion, like a heroin house Muslimgauze, soon the background sounds arc and soar, keening high end streaks, long tones undulating and pulsing, all the while, that motorik rhythm burbling just below the surface. The synths coalesce into string-like swoons, the vibe super cinematic, with a definite Eastern tinge, before all blurring into a much more subdued final movement, the last few minutes in particular, some seriously ominous black ambience, that manages to sound sinister, without losing any of its psychedelic dreaminess. The relatively shorter second track is dedicated to ambient electronic pioneer Pete Namlook, who died tragically earlier this year, the sound slowly unfurling diaphanous sheets of soft focus sound, seemingly time-lapse shifting overtones, buried melodies, the whole thing glimmering and glistening and shimmering, so so lovely.