Hypnosis

about this album

Splayed across two discs and with no other objective than expression in mind, Desiderii Marginis return to active duty. Now, he hasn’t really been away all that long but his latest collection of tracks are not to be compared to the others. Things have changed. I view dark ambient as a patchwork of small allotments which each artist is given (don’t ask who doles them out, I have no idea) to do with as they wish. Depending on how adept they are at their craft, the results will either take root and thrive or they will grow brittle, crumble and die. There are many who have done the latter in this style, to name names at this point would just be petty but trust me… there’s no end to the cadavers littering the field. Desiderii Marginis have now done several albums but with ‘Hypnosis’ it has become more organic than ever. The what, why and where govern his material. What: the selection of both natural and spoken word samples he picks out to pepper his arrangements with. Why: this should be quite easy to ascertain; why he chose what he did. Lastly where: the location or locations in which these barbs were placed. These three dynamics are what keep me coming back to what he does year after year and more tellingly, decade after decade. Yes, you read that right, this project is now into it’s teens but unlike the petulant and unruly age it shares with those rebellious i-phone addicts there’s no acting out going on. His songwriting has matured wonderfully on ‘Hypnosis’ and will reel you

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