Brad Abar
It's not just a re-release, it's a continuation of a desolate journey that only ends when you pull the trigger to make it stop. This album reminds me of The Road 2009, Cormac McCarthy's dystopian future, in which there is no hope, only the struggle to survive another day. I'd like to see another installment, in the bleak future, because there is no ending to this desolation.
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The remastered and expanded edition of Noctilucant's second album, 'Oblivion to you all.' Housed in a DIY digipak and containing a bonus disc with 10 bonus tracks!!
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When I look back to 2016, and to the creation, and, ultimately the release of, “Oblivion to you all,” I see a time in my life when I felt limitless creativity. Back in those days music and songs seemingly came out of me naturally. I used to joke around and say that these songs write themselves, and sometimes, I think they did.
OTYA was a natural follow-up to, “Back to the Mud,” but where BTTM focused on events taking place during the initial stages of the apocalypse, OTYA was the aftermath. I originally wrote, “‘Oblivion to you all' sees the world now sparsely populated, this is after the apocalypse, when many humans have fallen and those that remain standing are left to deal with a world that has changed into something 'else…” Indeed, civilization had fallen, and OTYA was the result. Taking place a few months after the apocalypse, humanity and the world was, to put it simple; fucked!
OTYA, was released on July 18th, 2016, and was met with a very positive response. However, before it was released I contacted various labels (Cyclic Law, Cryo Chamber, Winter-Light, etc.) with hopes that they’d consider releasing it. I heard comments like, “This lacks melodic structure,” “I’m not sure if this is what the label is interested in,” and “Sorry, this just isn’t very good.” Or I just didn’t hear a damn thing at all. Not one to be easily defeated, I knew I had to release it myself.
Originally I had fully planned to release the album in a factory pressed digipak, but right around that same time frame my girlfriend (now wife), and I were in the process of buying our first house. So, I had to prioritize, and as such, the album ended up just being released digitally.
As the years went by it always sort of bothered me that the album only existed in digital format. I realize in this day and age digital is what people want, but digital has no longevity. What if bandcamp was gone one day? What if the internet was gone one day? Would you remember your digital music? No, but you still would have your physical CDs, tapes and vinyls...
But, anyway, back to what I was saying earlier -- OTYA was met with very positive press. One of the most interesting details is that writers seemed to make up their own story to the story I presented to them. The album was something of an audiobook, and the listener filled in the details through their own imagination.
One of the most interesting quotes came from Terra Relicta, it said, “This is very much a dark ambient album but there are elements that you would usually expect to hear in other genres of dark music. Many ambient works maintain a steady dynamic level throughout with little (if any) change in atmosphere and mood. This is not one of those albums. Prepare to be compelled on a physical, emotional and spiritual level with the ever changing emanations and undertones."
When I started creating music a small goal of mine was to do something “different” in the dark ambient scene. Initially being inspired by the innovative, Sabled Sun project, created by Simon Heath, I wanted to take it a step further. I wanted my music to be more cinematic, more immersive, more diverse, and ultimately more atmospheric. I suppose whether or not I have is always going to be an arguable conversation, but looking back I feel like this album had something “different” to it. Maybe it was the flow of the songs, the style, the moods, the spoken parts, the field recordings, and even the screams on the title track. It felt like this was that album I set out to create.
Of course, none of this could have been possible without the talented people that aided me along the way.
My wife, Kara, provided the monologue on the opening track, “Introspective Dissolution,” an old high school friend, Steve, answered the call when I was searching for voice actors for, “Back into the Hole Where I was Born,” and delivered an amazingly morose retelling of losing his family during the apocalypse, and writer and friend, Michael, from This is Darkness ‘zine, delivered some ghostly whispers and some brutal screams and growls on the title track. Also, not to forget Maia of Glitch Witch who created the stunning cover artwork, and delivered exactly what I was looking for!
That about brings us up to the present.
As much as I’ve always personally enjoyed this album, there was one thing that bothered me; the production. The album was created during a time when I had limited audio production skills, and as such, it shows. The overall volume is not what you’d expect, and some songs have very different volume levels. For this reissue I knew I had to correct this.
Enter my friend Mombi Yuleman. If you don’t know Mombi, change that immediately, and go check out some of his brilliantly cinematic soundtrack/dark ambient music. Mombi had helped master a few of my previous albums and I knew he was the man to handle the remastering of this album. The results were great, and after doing so, the album had the much fuller and powerful production I was originally looking for, while also bringing out other sounds that were previously not obvious in the mix.
Finally, with the album being released in physical format for the first time, I knew I had to do something special. This version contains a bonus disk, the white disk, which contains ten bonus tracks, eight of which have never been released before. Three of these songs are demos or unused songs from the original recording sessions, and while I did step in and add a little something more to them a few months ago, they are still very much in the state that I originally found them in. Consider them artifacts, for extra amusement, and a trip further down into the recording process.
The bonus disk is rounded out with three instrumentals (aka songs without narration/voice/screams), a brilliant remix of, “The Old Machine Shop,” by Mombi Yuleman, an alternative early version of, “Back Into the Hole Where I was Born,” and two other songs, which have been previously released.
With that being said, my thanks to everyone involved in the album, new and old, and those that purchase this album and or even just stream the album on bandcamp for a few minutes. I hope you enjoy this new and far superior version of my second album, “Oblivion to you all.”
Befalling Silence Productions is the personal label of Josef Noctilucant, and serves as a home and banner for his creations
under the Noctilucant, House of the Maker, Sonic Oscillations, Gavella Glan and JOSEPHMLODIK monikers.
Music released thus far falls into the Dark Ambient, Drone, Death Industrial, Noise, Dungeon Synth and Soundtrack genres with occasionally forays into unknown territory....more
supported by 22 fans who also own “Oblivion To You All - 5 Year Anniversary Edition”
❤️My original plan was to go through and buy individual tracks like I do with most compilation albums, but honestly there are just so many good ones that I wound up buying the whole thing. More than simple drones (though there are plenty of those, too), this album collects many of the best and most innovative dark ambient artists in one place, including many who are new to me. A must-have for any dark ambient fan's collection. Plushie Fanatic
In the music of Paul Jordan, digitally manipulated field recordings become striking electronic songs that feel eerie and surreal. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 7, 2020
Moody dark ambient from Dahlia’s Tear, the expansive sounds on “Through the Nightfall Grandeur” are as melancholy as they are unsettling. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 16, 2018
supported by 19 fans who also own “Oblivion To You All - 5 Year Anniversary Edition”
❤️Somehow, this compilation manages to be even more impressive than the first. A great introduction to dark ambient for the uninitiated, and a must-have for longtime fans. Plushie Fanatic
