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Salt Heart

by Darren j Holloway

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1.
The Dreamer's Haze 07:28
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2.
Incorporea 05:52
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3.
The Ebb 07:06
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4.
To Save a Drowning Horse 04:13
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5.
Saltheart 06:49
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about

Darren j Holloway, aka SINNEN aka Damselfly returns, this time as himself; though given the shifting, amorphous nature of this release you have to wonder what he is actually revealing.

Holloway casts a musical net which captures elements of Silver Pyre, John T Gast, DC Pierre or Coil's more zoned-out moments.

The music has an ambivalent quality all of its own though; a brilliant aural nothingness that resembles walking through a fog. The vocals act as silhouettes, marsh lights to give you an indication of a horizon or something to aim at. Given tracks like 'The Ebb' and 'Saltheart' - maybe this is also a pre-configuring of digital-industrial music; that post-post everything sound reshaped for a new age of plough and scythe. They always did say the Fourth World War would be fought with sticks and stones...

The title of the opening track, 'The Dreamer's Haze', is a good marker for the listening experience as a whole; waves of atonal noise create an interzone that is as neutral or as threatening as you want to make it. There is drama, somewhere. Situationist music for no situation at all? Very possibly.

Richard James Foster (writer for The Quietus, The Wire, Drowned in Sound, Louder than War)

credits

released September 1, 2020

All music by Darren James Holloway (c) Damselfly Music 2020
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Darren @ Riverside Cottage Studio, Sussex

Artwork by John Lymer
Additional design and graphics by Darren

Darren would like to thank; Andy, David & Ash @ TQN-aut, Richard & Marcel @ Smikkelbaard, John Lymer @ LYMER

'To Save a Drowning Horse' was inspired by a conversation with Andy Wood

In memory of those who perished on The Mary Stanford lifeboat, Rye Harbour, East Sussex 15th November 1928

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Sounds from darkest Sussex

Also 1/2 of SINNEN:
tqn-aut.bandcamp.com/album/PROSM

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