Band Olhon (ITA)
Album Title Underwater passage
Catalogue # Ohl075
Release date February 2008
Format cd
Packaging Digipack
Tracks 4
Running time 42'43''
File under Dark ambient

Description Field-recordings maestros OLHON are back with a new stunning album. "Underwater passage" is based upon underwater recordings taken in 2006 by Zairo (WHERE), then treated by Massimo Magrini (of BAD SECTOR fame). These recordings were taken using special sensing microphones attached to an abandoned telephone cable running on the sea bottom at -40 m.; they were then processed with particular demodulating treatments, resulting in a complex and rich ambiental monument. Strange clicks, impulses, a load of movements. Definitely far from the usual concept of dark ambient = low-rumbling drones only, "Underwater passage" shimmers with cutting mid/high frequencies bursts. A very challenging listening. Uv-vernished digipack.
Track-list Entrance / Underwater calls I / Underwater calls II / Exit

Website http://www.olhon.org/
Samples Underwater calls II (excerpt) (26,4 MB)