And I love all this; some of it’s as flatly, quietly riveting as a Takemitsu piece; but for me, it’s pushed right over the top by the knowledge that nobody besides you and me cares, not even a little. “You and me,” in this case, being the tiny handful of people who’ll ever hear Shenzhou. We may care; I know I do; when I put this record on late at night, it seems like I’ve been waiting all my life for it. But it’s on its way into the shadows, and history will swallow it whole. And this, then, brings us clean across the field of play to Annihilatus’s Blood and War, which is by no means ambient at all (although I do have a theory about metalcore being a trance-oriented music, which I’ll go into more detail about if enough people want to hear about it: let me know), but which is comparable in obscurity to Shenzhou. |
