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Äänipää
12+ albums
droneexperimentalnoiseDoomdrone doom metal
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Mika Vainio (Pan Sonic, Ø) and Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O))), KTL, Burning Witch, Khanate, Thorr's Hammer) collaboration. Mika Vainio and Stephen O'Malley are both seminal figures in the experimental underground having established themselves in the epoch defining acts Pan Sonic and Sunn O)). Whilst they explored different worlds, one abstracted guitar drone metal, the other hard rhythms and analog atmospheres, there was always an underlying thread which bound both acts: massive blocks of sound, vast cavernous spaces, a sense of drama and the foreboding along with a deep exploration of the physical experience unlike any previously experienced. Pan Sonic and Sunn O))) first collaborated together on a Suicide cover version for a Blast First Petite series in 2007/8, and following this Mika and Stephen decided to collaborate further with what eventually became the ÄÄNIPÄÄ sessions. Recorded at Einstürzende Neubauten's andereBaustelle Tonstudio in Berlin and mixed at Avast! (Soundgarden, Earth) in Seattle over an extended period the results see individual approaches coalesce into a monumental whole. The signature motifs of both players are to be found here: the sparse crushing rhythms of Vainio's minimalist techno alongside the black hole drones of O'Malley's guitar workouts. It is the alchemical combination of these element that shifts this release into a new world of burning intensity. At once unholy and emotional 'Through a Pre-Memory' takes the listener on a vast journey. On
top songs
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Muse
2,0852Toward All Thresholds
1,5503Mirror of Mirror Dreams
1,5114Watch over Stillness / Matters Principle
1,1035Watch over stillness / Matters principle
1066Watch Over Stillness/Matters Principle
657Towards All Thresholds
388Toward All Threshholds
269Watch over stillness / Matters
1110Matters Principle
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