Ruptured World is the cinematic ambient project of Alistair Rennie (UK), who is also known as an author of Weird Fantasy and Horror Fiction.

The exoplanetary deep space mission to Proxima Centauri b has reached its intended destination. Work begins on assessing the planet for its suitability as a site of colonial expansion and habitation for an increasingly desperate human race.

But there are problems.

"Exoplanetary" features fragments of transmissions amid sonorous and distorted interpretations of narrative events as the mission faces up to the challenges of off-world exploration and the inescapable fact that, on Proxima Centauri b, the human visitors are not alone.

Cosmic horror combines with ambient evocations of a real-life futuristic drama in the face of alien estrangement and a prevailing aura of existential persecution. Radio transmissions are superseded by melodic inferences of atmospheric detail and the otherworldly drones of cosmic landscapes and the mysterious twilight roaming grounds of the Krivren.

The "Exoplanetary" CD package comes with a documentary booklet featuring a 16-page executive summary of the mission's objectives and a detailed profile of the planet's geophysical characteristics, as well as its inherent dangers. Digital Booklet also included with download.

It offers a unique listening and reading experience that integrates sound orchestration with speculative dark fiction to present a quasi-scientific account of future possibilities rendered in sound.

Recommended for fans of cinematic dark ambient and spoken word.

released August 7, 2018

Written, Produced, Performed, Vocals - Alistair Rennie
Artwork & Mastering - Simon Heath

You sit among the ancient ruins of Findlater Castle before the northern expanses of the sea and sky.

From within these scenes of desolation, you cast your mind adrift. You let it voyage into the vastness of the wilderness, into the depths of space, and beyond.

There are points in existence, in the cosmos itself, where the extremes of physical order begin to collapse, to disintegrate, to create spaces in which the primal chaos of the universe reveals itself, where it surges and reigns.

It is your objective to reach the primal radiance, to sip from its source, by whatever craft of enablement or wonderment is necessary.

Brooding, ethereal and tragedian in scope, "Frontiers of Disorder" mixes mystical fusions of supernal reverie with distorted cadences, field recordings of strange import, and the dread perceptions of the void.
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released March 10, 2018

Created and produced by Alistair Rennie
Cover art © 2018 Sandy Grigor

Ruptured World is back with a new album, Archeoplanetary, expanding on the storyline of previous album, Exoplanetary, and presenting an intriguing prequel to its atmosphere of cosmic horror and its prevailing themes of supraliminal close encounters and unknown worlds.

Scotland, 1936.
Dr Archibald Macrae of the Transatlantic Institute of Archaeological Investigations has made a critical discovery.
He recovers an array of materials compiled by his colleague and mentor, Dr Marian Tarknassus, who has disappeared five years earlier while working on the mysterious ancient scripts of the Pictish Ogham.
As Macrae begins to apply the cipher of Tarknassus and unlock the secrets of the recovered transcripts, he is led on a journey over the North Sea coasts in search of enigmatic clues and relics that reveal the possible whereabouts of his missing academic cohort and friend.
At the same time, he reveals startling evidence of the prospect of an extra-terrestrial presence on Earth that precedes the limits of recorded history. A prescient knowledge is uncovered that envisages future scenes of intergalactic voyages and the far-flung habitats of strange beings from distant worlds.
Archeoplanetary combines cavernous space drones with ethereal soundscapes and the evocations of haunted pianos that remind us of the fragile proximity of human life to the hostile conditions of unexplored cave systems and the vast proportions of the void.

Recommended for fans of cinematic dark ambient and spoken word.

The "Archeoplanetary" CD package comes with a documentary booklet featuring a 16-page repository of journal extracts and additional materials.
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released July 2, 2019

Written, Produced, Performed, Text
Alistair Rennie

Artwork & Mastering
Simon Heath
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