The Journey To Hdur
This first ECHØVEIL offering from British experimental musician Steve Holmes plunges us headfirst into his utterly singular sonic universe: rich, surreal, tormented, immersive, hypnagogic... A sprawling, more than an hour-long river of sound in which deleterious psychedelic noise becomes entangled with haunted dungeon synth / noise apparitions, the noxious exudations of contaminated power electronics and experimental industrial, and vast expanses of cosmic ambient.
Steve Holmes invites you on an authentic sonic journey... or perhaps a full-fledged expedition, punctuated by perilous encounters, fantastical and unsettling landscapes, deceptive mirages, grotesque and contorted faces, soot-blackened forests, snow-covered peaks lost within this ever-shifting world, and mist-laden plains awash in enigmatic colours, seemingly conjured from some otherworldly realm of unfathomable antiquity and utterly bizarre nature...
A perilous expedition, possibly one from which there is no return, towards that mysterious Hdur, a destination each listener is free to envision in their own peculiar way... Yet one that represents the ultimate culmination of a quest unfolding somewhere between shadows and light.
-Sir Kuliktavikt
