A hauntingly atmospheric success, “Digital Fog Archive” is a new track from Greek project Aetherfall, and also featuring immersive saxophone work from Nicky Kokkoli. A ghostly entrancement persists in both the evolving production — featuring sporadic saxophone slithering amidst spine-tingling ambient textures — and thematic inspiration, which explores the concept of “presence and erosion,” and specifically how sound and its elements can appear and disappear, akin to “breath on glass.” The saxophone work enthralls, spanning in tonal dynamics from subtle haunts to second-half expressiveness.
An eerie, spectral-like assembly of ambient sounds — resembling a mixture of voice and industrial-friendly intrigue — maneuver with consistently flowing engrossment quality to start. A bubbly bass-y pulse lingers underneath, maintaining a hypnotic steadiness as Kokkoli’s phantasmal saxophone tones emerge with varying degrees of tonal prominence. The final minute upticks the saxophone’s pitch and prominence, feeling like a culmination of the track’s artfully climactic charm — and overall resembling a hypothetical of if later-era Talk Talk embraced the ambient realm more so. Riveting in its soundscape and structural expansion, “Digital Fog Archive” is a fantastic success from Aetherfall and Nicky Kokkoli.
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This and other tracks featured this month can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Emerging Singles’ Spotify playlist.
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