Viridian Sun - Solar Noise

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Following solo releases by both members (synthesist & Hypnos founder Mike Griffin, and guitar experimentalist David Tollefson), sonic adventurers Viridian Sun follow up their daring, acclaimed debut, SOLAR NOISE. PERIHELION goes in a slightly new sonic direction, but retains the intuitive, improvisational approach. The focus remains on creating highly visual and evocative soundscapes, an ever-evolving construction of loops and drifting background textures, both hypnotic and beautiful.

With their second full-length release, the masters of Pacific Northwestern dark ambient have surpassed the artistic excellence of their debut, Solar Noise. From the very first notes they succeed in creating an aura of unease and vague threat, of droning machinery hidden in unfathomable forest landscapes and of sounds from outer space hovering all too closely to the surface of the planet. The sound palette is perhaps not broad but it has great depth and the abiding strength of this duo is their patience in allowing each individual composition to develop apace, resisting any impulse to hasten the process with sensational effects or dissonant patches of noise. One of the finest dark ambient albums of the year thus far.