DOZELIMIT – constructions of the
highest architecture
(CD, R.A.I.G.)
Instrumental doom / ambient /
noise from Siberia. Actually, these six words should be enough to make those
of you, dear readers, able to enjoy this kind of music, run for your
computers to check out where to be able to get ahold of this album. While it
should also be enough for everyone else, not daring enough or not tolerant
or receptive enough for demanding music, to know to keep their hands off the
record. I mean, Evgeny Vasiliev and Anton Artmiev, who formed the duo
Dozelimit about one and a half year ago, take no prisoners in pouring out
their droning landscapes, and it is quite obvious to say, but still very
true, that they glisten with the beauty of the Siberian landscape as well as
transpire the always imminent dangers that the region inhabit.
The seven, long tracks are
both beautiful and evil at the same time. So there is a special warning to
all metalheads (who next to real punks are probably the most conservative of
all music listeners) to not get too close to this. You won’t understand it
and won’t be able to appreciate the beauty of this. On the other hand,
everybody falling for Sunn0))) or even Earth might be interested to expand
their universe. After all, bleak and dark visions poured into dooming drones
are very different when they come from the affluent coastal areas of the
western civilizations than when they are being produced in an area that has
been regarded as the most outward, unfriendly and dangerous place of the
world. Okay, so the polar regions are worse regarding living circumstances,
but nobody ever fought a war there, right? Nobody ever sent prisoners to the
Arctics? In the small band of biological factors that describe an atmosphere
in which living is possible, Siberia definitely defines one extreme end. A
friend of mine once spent some weeks hiking around the Baikal sea and he
still remembers it as one of the most fascinating and mind-boggling
experiences he ever had.
The untitled tracks on this
album shine with a fascinating radiance, that makes them heavy and dark at
the same time as they are wonderfully elevating. Sometimes for minutes, it
seems, there is nothing but the wavering flow of feedback and noise, only to
be broken up by sounds that seem to manipulated cries of seabirds or a dark,
bass-heavy low frequency crashing in. Your mind wanders, of course, only to
find itself set back into a whole different territory, suddenly. Sometimes
you wonder, is it really guitars or manipulated synthie sounds and after all
does it really matter? At other times it is clear that the melodies nearly
touched upon are from six strings. Overall Dozelimit manage to induce the
feeling, that time is standing still. Like sitting on the oceanside at dawn,
watching the waves roll in and crash on the beach, coming out of the
darkness nearing pitch blackness, going on forever and ever. The kind of
trance this can effect on watchers, these “constructions” also have.
Probably more towards psychedelic music than real ambient noise, but hard to
say, because then there is a washing of droning dark guitar chords reminding
of Fear Falls
Burning. As with any good music, it is hard to point down the
genre label. If you’d ask me for a label to tag on it, I would say: It is
perfect music to read Dostojevski to, but then again, who really reads
Dostojevski these days (aside from me)? It needs time, and rewards with
timelessness.
