‘AMRITA - The Quintessence,’ is a conceptual album revolving around the vama chara or vama marg, otherwise known as the path of the left, or the path of woman, centering upon the Amrita, which is the sexual secretion of the woman in her oracular phase. So if you have any idea what that’s all about than maybe this album will appeal to you just a tad bit more.
Black Seas has been described as ritualistic ambient music and while the concept behind the project might have something to do with dark ritualistic practices I honestly don’t feel the ritualistic feeling entirely through the music, but perhaps that’s just me. The first song is a twenty minute dark ambient composition, which during its duration doesn’t entirely change too much, but rather sticks to a simple format of suffocating dark ambiance, noise, and odd electronics. ‘Devourment’ is more of an electro ambient piece, which runs for thirteen minutes and basically doesn’t change at all musically. While there is a spoken sample at the beginning of the song it eventually starts reusing the same two movie samples over and over and over again to the point of pure annoyance. The last couple of minutes of the song show a sudden more dramatic edge to the music, but yet again repeated samples. Never understood why these experimental electronic artists feel the need to do this, but they basically all do. Hmmm…
‘AIShtLa’ is a very slow paced almost silent ambient piece with a spoken sample in some cryptic language, while ‘Porta Vox Umbra’ is similar musically but the voices on this one are a bit less distinguishable. ‘Daughter of the Bleeding Sunset’ is a basic dark droning ambient piece, but is enjoyable, whilst the final song ‘Anti Vital Interior of the Womb Exploded Moon’ is a rather bizarre electronic experimental piece with, yeah you guessed it, vocals by Kenji Siratori.
Altogether Black Seas of Infinity offers up sixty five minutes of interesting and diverse electronic creations that strays a bit away from the usual ambient artist.
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