A-Sun Amissa: For Burdened and Bright Light
A-Sun Amissa: For Burdened and Bright Light
Format: VINYL LP
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Artist: A-Sun Amissa
Label: Gizeh Records
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 4250101408670
Genre: Rock
LP version. White color vinyl; edition of 300. For Burdened and Bright Light is the fifth full-length album from A-Sun Amissa. This new work builds on the foundations of previous record Ceremony In The Stillness (GZH 085CD/LP, 2018), incorporating some of the heavier, distorted, guitar-oriented themes but this time fuses them with broken, crumbling electronic beats and primal drone movements. The result is two long-form pieces of work that take time to unfold and multiple listens to truly digest what is on offer. The music of A-Sun Amissa has evolved some-what naturally over the years, drawing from elements of dark-ambient, post-rock, and minimal doom, but always with a leading experimental edge and a huge amount of room to push the boundaries back as far as possible. For Burdened and Bright Light feels like the next logical chapter in the journey. Essentially, A-Sun Amissa is the project of Richard Knox (Gizeh Records founder, The Eternal Return Arkestra curator, member of The Rustle of the Stars, Shield Patterns, and Glissando) who has utilized a vast array of other musicians throughout the group's previous records. This time around though it's almost exclusively the work of Knox who continues to embed his typical DIY approach in writing, recording, and mixing the entire album, alongside providing the artwork. On a sonic level For Burdened and Bright Light is the furthest Knox has gone in terms of production, depth, and working with a more diverse palette of sounds. A-Sun Amissa's distinct atmosphere remains intact however and the result is a more immersive, ambitious, adventurous record of conflicting emotions as the theme of the work tackles the contradictions of being human and explores the duality of light and dark, hope and despair. The two compositions found here are underpinned by vast ambient passages that are drenched in distortion and reverb, slowly unfurling before more industrial, kinetic sounds are introduced and heaving guitars come to the fore. The clarinet work of Claire Knox features prominently and ranges from huge, droning, orchestral overtones in the opening section of "Breath by Breath" to a wild, free-jazz explosion in the middle of "Seagraves". The addition of David Armes's lap-steel for the first time brings a discordant and haunting element to the sound and builds on the recent live work this trio have done together.
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