Ben Nash: The Seventh Goodbye auf CD

Burial Hex first made itself known to Aurora Borealis a few years ago when browsing obscure blackened electronic treats online. The subsequent purchase delivered a rather bizarre cassette tape, totally without markings, and a cryptic, darkly printed simple cover bearing ancient symbols and occult schematics: Curses Of The Earth indeed. It conjured all sorts of imaginings - nocturnal rites, lonely vigils with archaicanalogue equipment, moonlight, madness... In 2007 Aurora Borealis found itself face to face with Burial Hex acrossthe strings of the ether, in communication via email, almost wholly by accident and coincidence. Taking this to be a sign, perhaps the hand of destiny, a deal was secured to release something. More instinct than reaction, no one knew what to expect. The "oppressive necro electronics" of the recordings heard so far gave little idea of what lay in store, of thenew depths to be explored, the madness to be embraced. Initiations, the debut recording for Aurora Borealis, is a lengthy proposition. Clocking in at one hour thirteen minutes, it represents a journey, a metaphysical odyssey of uncertain outcome. From the psychoreligious clamour of "Will To The chapel" with its jihadic cries, through to the somnambulant, subterranean oscillations of "Eight Pentacles", the way ahead is far from clear, the atmosphere claustr...