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ORR006 - Hibernation

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JaneyB Bought on a whim coz it was Bandcamp Friday and I dig the guys label…and i made assumptions about what the music was gonna be like from the cover.
This album is stark and beautiful. It feels like the oppressive loneliness that is anxiety in some places before transcending into the moments of peace that punctuate it.
Reminiscent of Ben Frost in places.
I really love it 🤍

GPH Audibly bleak but conveying a real sense of the beauty of an inhospitable landscape. Very impressive. Imagine Resident’s ESKIMO not done as a piss-take.

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	1.	Hornstrandir 09:23
	2.	Oymyakon 07:14
	3.	Longyearbyen 05:20
	4.	Ittoqqortoormiit 09:14
	5.	Kerguelen 09:39
	6.	Iqaluit 05:59

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*My second Bandcamp New & Notable, April 4th 2021* Crazy feeling!

An auditory tale of isolated life, surrounded by Winter darkness, biting cold, daily difficulties, the battle that the body and moreso the mind must survive, as well as the catharsis of the other side.

Each song is named after incredibly remote towns and cities (in Iceland, Russia, Norway, Greenland, Antarctic and Canada), that have extreme low temperatures (Oymyakon has reports of -90!), and is about just how much the human spirit can endure.

Of course, the topic of hibernation and isolation applies to people in less severe climates, and all year round as well, as the battle in the mind can take you to some severely cold places, especially thinking of what the world is enduring at the moment.

There is always a hope to push through to the other side of the struggle, and achieve catharsis, new strength for mind and body.

Videos:
'Hornstrandir': www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV-HQsvcQa8
'Kerguelen': www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bke7x_0zzoY
'Iqaluit': www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl5sQVZhLNM
Full album: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO73sZW0CiU

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released March 27, 2021

Full discography of The Owl: theowl.bandcamp.com

Bass, piano, vocals, drums by The Owl
Cover photo taken by The Owl in Keflavík, Iceland.
Track images from each of the areas named in each piece.
Made between December 10th 2020 and January 15th 2021.

Headphones and darkness (and wav/flac if downloading) are most definitely advised for this sometimes cold, dark ambient noise drone journey with a few twists, especially for 'Itto', which literally reaches disintegration point at times (to represent the bleakest times), before clarifying itself and leading you into a different journey for the remaining part of the album, with its stronger and brighter closing two songs.

When there feels like no relent of the overwhelming sadness...
When it feels like everything is disintegrating....
When the internal noise is at its highest...
You can always find the final joule of fortitude.

Every year gets harder as it gets easier.
This is the soundtrack of my mind in these times.

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