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August

by SANA OBRUENT

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I 10:07
2.
II 07:49
3.
III 09:12
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IV 05:00
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V 11:02
6.
VI 08:05

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Sana Obruent is Paul Lopez.

August by Sana Obruent was recorded and mixed at TSC studios somewhere in California - April - July 2017.

The Sheltering Sky;

"Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you cannot conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, or five times more? Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty.

And yet it all seems limitless..."

"Energy never dies... It just changes form."

For PML...
August 31, 1970 - August 23, 1983

Blackjack Illuminist Records press release for "August" by Sana Obruent:

Everybody who shat their pants listening to Sana Obruent’s incredibly dark and terrifying predecessor album “Dyatlov” must feel like being taken back to life from the dead listening to the opening track of the new album “August”, simply entitled “I”. It sounds like being pushed into an overwhelming stream of energy. A strong, wild river full of what life might have in store for you, full of all possibilities, all emotions at once, strangely positive on the surface, yet intimidating with its rumbling deep drones underneath.

It is a heavy album that Paul Lopez who is the sole member of Sana Obruent created. As if he wanted to imitate the sound of icebergs floating by or massive mountain ranges scraping the earth, it is intense Drone, bulldozer-like, heavy Drone that shakes the listener’s living room walls. This can best be felt in “II” which sounds like the field recording of a giant spaceship which is passing through an alien portal heading for planet earth with dubious intentions on their minds. (Are those noises of aliens dragging human bodies over the ground in the second part of the track?)

Paul Lopez creates all these soundscapes with his guitar only. Besides these moments of full-scale Drone you also find room for subtle melodies and occasional ghost choir-like elements (“III”) which carefully hints in the direction of Shoegaze - the black hole kind.

What is left from the pitch black horror of “Dyatlov”? Not too much, the feelings of being frozen (“IV) or being trapped in an icy mirror world (“V”) are unsettling but far from terrifying. “August” mostly focuses on the more vivid side of the Drone/Ambient genre which is perfectly executed in the closing “VI” when you feel like watching yourself swimming, then submerging, surfacing again, trying to locate the source of a strange sound which, in the end, is just everywhere.

With this new album Sana Obruent’s Drone is cracking up the sky and drowning you in an inescapable flood of liquid walls. And it sounds like witnessing the thoughts of many lives at the same time. Organic and overwhelming.

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released August 31, 2017

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Verum musicum (by Erik Satie)

Qui proficit in sapientia ... ... clara est et didicit carere

sacrificia magna et paratus sit ad sacrificia ingenti ... ...

si dici potest sua industria ... est ingenti ...

... In certamen paratum est ad honestatem et ipse pugnabit is ...
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