Two long-form pieces forgoing melody and rhythm in favour of pure texture. René Aquarius works in a register adjacent to Thomas Köner's darker drone music: a metallic sheen distributed across slowly shifting masses, gestures held to the minimum, every sonic event magnified by the quietness around it. The result is unmistakably dark ambient, but built with restraint rather than gothic excess, the focus turned to the ghostly imagery that emerges from sustained low-density listening.
"A truly mystical exploration of sound, René Aquarius creates shimmering worlds with Transmutation. Forgoing traditional melody and rhythm, instead René Aquarius lingers about with pure texture. The clever drone work recalls Thomas Koner’s darker impulses, while the metallic sheen further gives the two elongated pieces a feeling of ominous dread. Keeping things quite minimal, René Aquarius ensures that at no point is anything overdone, but rather made to be infinitely eerie. Ghostly imagery crosses through the whole of the album ensuring that every single gesture is magnified enormously". (Beach Sloth)
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