New album of intense and carefully crafted soundscapes from Bulgaria’s SHRINE after his acclaimed 2016 album “Ordeal 26.04.86”. Based on the fictional story for Tomb Raider III, created by the British game studio CORE in 1998, the story begins in Antarctica millions of years ago, where a meteorite has crashed into the landmass and when the continent was still located in the tropics. Millennials later it was discovered by the ancient Polynesians who had reached the Antarctic coast and they soon realised that strange otherworldly powers surround the celestial rock and so the people began to worship it as a deity. After severe mutations started to occur among their newborn, the settlers fled in terror and never came back but before they left, they sealed the meteorite into a deep underground chamber, locked by four "keys", four unique objects crafted from the same alien material as the meteorite itself. In the 19th century, a group of sailors travelling with Charles Darwin came to Antarctica and rediscovered the artefacts. The story follows the search for the four artefacts and the rediscovering of the meteorite, hypothesised to contain the most important findings in genetics and evolution since Darwin. We are aurally taken through this unique world through 6 singular chapters of pristine sonic grandeur. Artwork by Dehn Sora.
Edition of 300 copies in 6 panel Digipak. 6 Tracks. Running Time: 50:20
Label: Cyclic Law – 110th Cycle Format: CD, Album Country: Germany Released: 21 Dec 2018 Genre: Electronic Style: Dark Ambient
Tracklist
1. Infada Stone 10:04 2. Element 115 06:01 3. The Eye Of Isis 10:40 4. Ora Dagger 09:05 5. The lost City Of Tinnos 08:54 6. Celestial Fire 05:23
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New album of intense and carefully crafted soundscapes from Bulgaria’s SHRINE after his acclaimed 2016 album “Ordeal 26.04.86”. Based on the fictional story for Tomb Raider III, created by the British game studio CORE in 1998, the story begins in Antarctica millions of years ago, where a meteorite has crashed into the landmass and when the continent was still located in the tropics. Millennials later it was discovered by the ancient Polynesians who had reached the Antarctic coast and they soon realised that strange otherworldly powers surround the celestial rock and so the people began to worship it as a deity. After severe mutations started to occur among their newborn, the settlers fled in terror and never came back but before they left, they sealed the meteorite into a deep underground chamber, locked by four "keys", four unique objects crafted from the same alien material as the meteorite itself. In the 19th century, a group of sailors travelling with Charles Darwin came to Antarctica and rediscovered the artefacts. The story follows the search for the four artefacts and the rediscovering of the meteorite, hypothesised to contain the most important findings in genetics and evolution since Darwin. We are aurally taken through this unique world through 6 singular chapters of pristine sonic grandeur. Artwork by Dehn Sora.
Edition of 300 copies in 6 panel Digipak. 6 Tracks. Running Time: 50:20 credits released December 21, 2018 license all rights reserved
Shrine debuts on Cryo Chamber with the wall of sound heavy album Quintessence
In a world like this where the fundamentals of creation and the origin of life still remain beyond the scope of rational comprehension, this album will take you on a metaphysical journey into the primordial chaos of the building blocks of the Universe. It is based on the concept of the Four Elements - Earth, Water, Wind, Fire, plus the Fifth Element, Quintessence, which here represents the abiogenesis, and organic life itself.
Each track is here named after a specific Element and the titles are in Old Greek with Latin transcription. A rich texture of field recordings play carefully against strange instruments and haunting voices against a massive wall of drone.
Recommended for fans of textural walls of sound. credits released October 1, 2019
Written, Produced, Performed, Mastered by Shrine Artwork by Shrine & Simon Heath license all rights reserved
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