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Hades by Marc Behrens and Paulo Raposo | ||||||||||||||||||||
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 Witnessing an old sunken boat being wrenched from its watery grave is what gave Marc Behrens and Paulo Raposo the idea to create a sonic journey towards the depths of the underworld. Though this may immediately set off the concept album warning light, Behrens and Raposo base their work on solid, well recorded material collected from the ports, ferries and the surrounding milieu of various coastal locations. Their collaboration takes the form of four parts: 2 shorter 'Gates' which work as more active pieces. Machinery squeals and thuds; tensile coils of metal strain under unknown pressures; sound becomes dulled by the idea and presence of water. These 'Gates' are full of spluttery abrasion as they distort and swirl around the listener's perceptions of real and manipulated sounds. They serve as introductions the longer 'Crossing into' and 'Crossing out of' pieces which inhabit the bulk of this release. The original source material: the sea, the creaking and movement of these vessels are sensitively constructed and manipulated; modifying, blurring and focussing reality. Smeared tones and ghostly hollow sounds drift in and out of the horizon as the real and the processed are expertly combined, separated, disjointed and lulled. The pace of the whole album matches the slowed down, thick feeling of slowly drifting in water. A journey worth taking many times. Review by Mark McLaren
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