Amon

Tip! Dark Ambient with unearthly and ghostly melodies + unidentified sound sources. “The Innermost Legacy” is an expanded and completely remastered new press of Amon’s 1999 CD album “The Legacy”. Coming as a double CD set with improved graphics, it also includes “Live Report”, a selection of unreleased tracks recorded during various Amon concerts in the late ’90s, which are presented in a continuous mix.

"I am glad to see “The Legacy”, Amon’s third CD album, re-released after almost twenty years since its original publication. In 1998, when I started recording the tracks that ended up on the CD, I was particularly interested in the phenomenon known as the “Face on Mars” – located in the Cydonia region – photographed for the first time in 1976 by the American probe Viking Orbiter 1 during its mission. Such pictures, taken at a very low resolution compared to those taken more recently during other missions, clearly showed a Martian face resembling the Great Sphinx of Giza and some pyramid-shaped structures. The ‘legacy’ to which I referred in the title, concerned my opinion about the fact that someone in ancient times may have left on the Earth and on Mars a sign of their passage. Much of the album was inspired by this theme. On these recordings I almost completely abandoned the synthesized sounds that were used on “Amon” and “El Khela”, in favour of a large use of samples. The tracks were not sequenced and built as in the previous works, but were culled from long improvisations that also included ‘controlled feedback’ as a sound source. The bonus disc included in “The Innermost Legacy” mostly contains a selection of tracks recorded during various concerts I played in the late ’90s. For this project I chose the best takes available and tried to edit them as little as possible, in order to maintain the atmosphere of the original recordings, creating a continuous mix. - Andrea Marutti

"The Legacy" is a vast collection of cosmic synth drones coming from outer space. We travel in complete darkness, through mysterious, haunted and evocative mindscapes. This is in the same mood as other Amon's releases and is still gorgeous to our ears. This is discreet music built on long monotonous-cloudy buzzing dronescapes. The opening track is a dark dense spherical drone that guides the listener in truly desolate place, in front nothingness. Quite beautiful with dying resonances. "Enter Darkness" features unearthly abstract droning textures, revealing almost phantom like presences. It carries on with an austere and spacious sound architecture ("Machinery"). In "Domes / Colonies", the tension goes further with epically bleak ambiences that takes us into a creepy, suffocating ambient universe. "Exit Light" is a much more detached, suspenseful piece built on eerie drones for high frequencies and massive burgeoning echoes. "Amunhaptra" closes the album with glacial subterranean drones. "The Legacy" provides a convincing avalanche of nocturnal drone rituals, creating some vertiginous states of listening. Play loud." - Philippe Blache